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Three people have been treated for rabies exposure after coming in contact with a stray cat that recently was confirmed as having contracted raccoon rabies, the regional health board for the South Shore of Montreal said Thursday.
When Sinziana Dumitra, 41, was a child, she knew she wanted to be a doctor after watching her aunt go through frequent heart surgeries.
Melina Tsagaropoulos was 37 years old when she died from ovarian cancer last month, a disease often referred to as the 'silent killer' because it rarely causes symptoms until it has reached an advanced stage.
Health Canada says a court has approved the agency’s request to permanently ban a Quebec-based online store from selling unauthorized injectable peptides in the country.
Quebec’s agricultural ministry is urging pet owners to get their animals vaccinated after the province recorded its first case of raccoon rabies in a cat.
A Montreal-based virtual health-care provider says it is seeing a rise in consultations for eating disorders during the summer.
The deadline is fast approaching for Canadians to claim their share of a multimillion-dollar class-action lawsuit over the drug Rexulti.
Paramedics and the Quebec government have reached a tentative agreement after more than three years without a collective agreement.
Quebec’s obstetricians and gynecologists have filed a legal challenge against the medical specialists federation over what they call a persistent gender-related pay gap.
Doctors in Montreal have successfully operated on a woman’s brain while she was pregnant.
On Friday, the Quebec government announced more than $30 million in funding to enable Genome Quebec to continue its research and innovation activities.
Montreal public health officials are issuing a new warning of fatal overdoses involving carfentanil, after eight new deaths were reported since its last overdose alert in April.
A Montreal hospital is livestreaming complex eye surgeries to give medical trainees a real-time window into the operating room.
Summer is the busiest time of year at the trauma centre at the Montreal General Hospital. It is only one of three adult Level One trauma centres in Quebec, and it is where the most serious and life-threatening physical injuries in Montreal are treated.
Quebec’s health ministry says there has been an increase in cyclosporiasis cases this year in the province.
A first-of-its-kind Canadian study is shedding light on an often-confused and underdiagnosed allergy that largely affects infants and young children, often landing them in the emergency room.
