As a result, officials are strongly emphasizing the importance of vaccination as the primary defence against measles. Public health officials are ramping up vaccination campaigns and advising ...

University of Calgary researchers are leading a national surveillance system, tracking respiratory virus trends among ...

For the second time in five years, some doctors in southwestern Ontario are encountering a virus they've never treated before ...

Health officials in British Columbia say two new travel-related cases of measles have been confirmed in the Lower Mainland, bringing the number of those recently infected to four.

Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and Human Services Department were ...

As the director of the National Security Archive’s Climate Change Transparency Project, Rachel Santarsiero is in the business of monitoring and facilitating the flow of information from the government ...

Public Health Agency of Canada says there has been a “sharp rise” in measles cases across the globe, and the same trend continues in Canada, with 227 cases recorded so far this year ...

Federal Health Minister Mark Holland is temporarily suspending the work of t Task Force on Preventive Health Care, which has ...

Kennedy said he wanted to remove some workers from the public health agencies. “I have a list in my head,” Kennedy said of potential firings at the agency. He said some workers “made really ...