B.C. Children's Hospital has activated emergency triage to manage a mounting volume of patients with respiratory illness, including flu and COVID-19, B.C.'s health minister has confirmed. Health minister says emergency operations centres set up months ago have been activated B.C. Children's Hospital has activated emergency triage to manage a mounting …

Masks have been essential throughout the pandemic, but while everyone is encouraged to wear them to protect themselves in certain situations during respiratory illness season, mandating them now is harder to justify for a wide range of reasons. No province or territory has opted to make the use of masks …

Masks have been essential throughout the pandemic, but while everyone is encouraged to wear them to protect themselves in certain situations during respiratory illness season, mandating them now is harder to justify for a wide range of reasons. No province or territory has opted to make the use of masks …

CBC News got exclusive access to the emergency department and ICU at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, Canada's largest pediatric medical centre, as it and other hospitals across the country grapple with what one doctor called "a perfect storm" of COVID-19, flu and RSV. Stress takes toll on families and …

A review of Greg Price's death found missed faxes, follow-ups and botched data-sharing ultimately cost the 31-year-old his life. A decade later, medical front-line staff in Canada say problems persist when it comes to sharing everything from patient information to aggregate medical and staffing data. 'It's not good to be …

A triple threat of COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and influenza is pushing pediatric hospitals over capacity and being blamed for a wave of absences in schools. It's prompted calls for mandatory masking in schools again. With respiratory illnesses spreading, there’s been an uptick in children getting sick Schools reconsider …

Health Canada says a foreign supply of a children's fever and pain reducing medication has now been secured. Supplies will be available for sale at pharmacies in the coming weeks Health Canada says a foreign supply of a children's medication for reducing fever and pain has now been secured. "We …

Dr. Theresa Tam and her counterparts across the country recommend layering the protection of wearing a mask in crowded places, particularly if they are poorly ventilated. Up to provincial authorities to decide about mask mandates, Tam says Canada's top public health doctor says wearing masks in addition to other precautions …

The emergency department at the Children's Hospital in Winnipeg is in crisis as it struggles to keep up with a spike in respiratory virus cases, the department’s medical director says. Virologist says return of masks needed ahead of expected spike in influenza cases next month The emergency department at the …

The latest federal numbers show, as of Oct. 9, 6.5 per cent of kids under five received one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while one per cent received two doses. That's significantly lower than the rest of the population, in which more than 84 per of Canadians are fully vaccinated. …