Vancouver’s two health authorities are urging health-care workers to take defensive measures to avoid clashes with a convoy of anti-vaccination and anti-restriction demonstrators heading toward the...

Following intense public pressure in British Columbia, and scrutiny from across the country, health officials have finally revealed a more accurate account of how many patients are in hospital due to...

Many British Columbia medical staffers are frustrated and even angry about what they describe as a culture of fear and silence when it comes to raising questions about the quality of care in the...

One of the key figures in Canada’s inquiry into the SARS outbreak is calling for an inquiry into B.C.’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, describing the province's rejection of scientific evidence a...

A year-long tug-of-war has resulted in Vancouver Coastal Health producing some of the COVID-19 outbreak reports it repeatedly insisted did not exist.

B.C.’s health minister did not disclose an exceptionally high number of influenza deaths among children until pressed by reporters Wednesday, a day after CTV News reported six such tragedies have...

When Andy was diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer, he was shocked, but it was the handling of his medical coverage that left him stunned and deeply upset.

Ministry of Health staff are denying that some health researchers were promised rapid antigen tests to screen for COVID-19 at a Christmas party, even though CTV News Vancouver has obtained the...

When asked about recent guidance in British Columbia that may impact whether reported COVID-19 data is accurate, the provincial health officer said the daily figures have never been an exact reflec...

B.C.'s top doctor is defending her office's handling of COVID-19 data in the wake of leaked documents showing considerably more information than the province has previously released.

More B.C. health-care workers have spoken up publicly and on background confirming CTV News reporting on allegations of repercussions for speaking up about patient care and workplace conditions, but...

British Columbia health officials are facing mounting criticism and questions in the wake of a CTV News story exposing their practice of only publicly reporting the number of COVID-19 patients in...

The B.C. government has announced a raft of new COVID-19 restrictions as the province braces for an expected explosion in cases triggered by the fast-spreading Omicron variant.

B.C.’s stockpile of COVID-19 anti-viral treatments has ballooned even further in as guidelines continue to restrict access to the drug despite ample supply.

One of B.C.’s health authorities had a plan to keep a hospital ER room open despite having no doctors to cover the department by demanding family doctors attend to any of their patients and ordering...

There are more than 1.3 million unused rapid tests in British Columbia, according to the Ministry of Health. And they are indeed sitting in a warehouse.

BC Children's Hospital is seeing a 'surge storm' in young patients, prompting the facility to open an overflow unit for their emergency department.

Several B.C. highways, particularly some that connect the Lower Mainland to the Interior, are closed for a second day due to flooding and a rescue operation is underway to help dozens of drivers...

Private staffing agencies stand to make huge profits from British Columbia’s public health-care system, according to exclusive documents obtained by CTV News after a seven-month freedom of informat...

A team of health researchers in British Columbia has come to the same conclusion as other scientists, but in a much larger study, finding people who’d become infected with COVID-19 were at much...

Another group of doctors is speaking up about dire conditions in their hospital, warning patients are dying after waiting a day or longer to be seen by a doctor in the emergency department of Surrey...

B.C. health officials have quietly changed their guidelines for people experiencing mild COVID-19 symptoms, removing the minimum self-isolation time for adults who never tested positive.

The surge in sick kids has B.C.'s Surrey Memorial Hospital seeing quadruple as many patients as their emergency department was designed for, and 100 more kids per day than last year – making it one...

Premier John Horgan’s summer vacation at a time when homes are being destroyed by wildfires and B.C. is grappling with a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has struck a nerve.

Some patients admitted to a Vancouver Island hospital over the long weekend were stunned to receive a notice telling them that even though they’d been admitted, there wasn’t a doctor available to...

Vancouver’s sky-high rental prices have forced many residents to find creative ways to be able to afford to live in the city. Turning to creativity is exactly what Tim Chen did to avoid paying rent...

B.C. health officials are making preparations for a possible fall surge in COVID-19 and influenza cases that could put added pressure on an already-burdened health-care system.

A lab at a downtown Vancouver hospital has uncovered more cases of a highly contagious COVID-19 than has been recorded in all of the United States.

The Ministry of Health did not consult with the very care home operators it expects to take in seniors being expelled from hospitals in preparation of a surge in serious illnesses anticipated from...

There are 30,000 rounds of the COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid in pharmacies and storage locations in British Columbia, with only 2,500 ever dispensed in the province, CTV News has learned. The situation...

Dozens of specialist doctors have signed a letter to B.C.’s health minister with dire warnings that the health-care system has deteriorated to the point that one million patients are waiting to see...

The Lower Mainland’s medical community is stunned after receiving an urgent memo from a highly-respected doctor about Langley Memorial Hospital’s emergency department – saying it is near collapse and...

Premier John Horgan is insisting British Columbia's fourth wave surge in cases and hospitalizations was unavoidable, even though Canada's most populous province continues to see low COVID-19 case...

For months, rigid thinking and political influence led health officials in B.C. and elsewhere to reject the evidence that COVID-19 transmission is airborne, say analysts.

When the provincial health officer told British Columbians she was removing isolation requirements and testing for most of the population and compared managing COVID-19 in similar terms to the flu or...

After a change in how outbreaks are defined and declared in British Columbia, no care homes in Vancouver Coastal Health have met the new threshold for nearly two months despite dozens of cases at a...

Thousands of pap smear samples from B.C. women have been sent to an American company for cancer screening amid a pandemic backlog, CTV News has learned.

B.C. health officials will now be reporting on the number of pediatric deaths from the flu weekly, a change that comes in the wake of an alarming number of fatalities this season.

With students heading back to class next week, some have expressed concern about the changes to COVID-19 protections in place for schools, in spite of B.C. being in the middle of its fourth wave in...

A group calling themselves non-partisan health professionals are holding their first briefing on B.C.'s COVID-19 response this week, citing a lack of transparency and a "worrisome lack of science-i...

Just hours after Wilson Pharmacy in Port Coquitlam, B.C., got a new order of at-home rapid test kits, the shipment was already gone.

As it struggles to cope with high patient volumes, BC Children's Hospital is now allowing two patients to share rooms intended for just one.

The B.C. government plans to expand its inventory and distribution of rapid COVID-19 tests in the province, as the Omicron variant of concern surges across the country.

Much of the burden of caring for COVID-19 patients in B.C. has fallen to nurses. Friday, they demanded relief from the B.C. government.

Despite a table from the federal government suggesting potentially millions of tests destined for British Columbia remain unused, the province's top doctor says it's untrue that the much-desired...

For the first time, B.C.’s Ministry of Health has provided information about people who likely caught COVID-19 after going to acute care settings for medical treatment or work, with 1,619 getting the...

Quebec Premier François Legault announced the province will apply a 'significant' financial penalty for residents who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 for non-medical reasons.

B.C.'s government is requiring stakeholders involved in the FIFA World Cup to sign non-disclosure agreements that keep them from discussing the potential cost of the event, CTV News has learned.

The Vancouver Island Health Authority is downplaying what staff describe as a cockroach infestation in a medical unit of Saanich Peninsula Hospital.