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As workplaces enforce their own vaccine mandates — placing their employees on unpaid leave or terminating their employment altogether if they refuse to get vaccinated without a medical exemption — it remains to be seen just how many wrongful dismissal...

The federal government is taking a close look at options to guarantee results from newly proposed mental-health funding to provinces, according to Canada's mental health minister Carolyn Bennett. Bennett says that could include new legislation that would accompany the Canada...

NEW YORK -- Gilead Sciences Inc said an unauthorized network of drug distributors and suppliers sold pharmacies more than US$250 million of counterfeit versions of its HIV treatments over the last two years, endangering patients. The drugmaker said it found...

OTTAWA -- The latest evidence does not show the Omicron variant is contagious for less time than previous versions of the virus that causes COVID-19, chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam said Tuesday. But Tam told the House of...

Any new mother can tell you that sleep is an important factor in how they feel, but a new study has found that certain changes in sleep and in biological rhythms are associated with how severe symptoms of anxiety and...

Scientists believe they have identified potential genetic risk factors that may explain why some people lose their sense of taste and smell when they have COVID-19. In a study published in the journal Nature Genetics on Monday, researchers using online...

While the most challenging days of COVID-19 are predicted to be ahead for British Columbia's health-care system, representatives for doctors and nurses say their members are on the verge of a possible collapse. Doctors of BC president Dr. Ramneek Dosanjh...