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Jean-Pierre Duclos, 56, fled around 2 p.m. today while being escorted from the Ste-Anne-des-Plaines federal penitentiary to the Verdun Hospital for an unspecified medical condition. More...

A couple was sent to hospital after a dramatic rescue from a three-alarm house fire near York Mills Road and Bayview Avenue in Toronto overnight that sent two firefighters to hospital. More...

A man is in hospital with non-life threatening injuries after a number of shots were fired into a restaurant at Yorkdale mall just after midnight Saturday morning. More...

Six people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after a Royal Canadian Navy frigate was struck by a U.S. fishing trawler near CFB Esquimalt on Vancouver Island. More...

Hospital cleanliness, which is related to the spread of superbugs such as C. difficile and MRSA, is a major concern for Canadians who have spent time in hospital, a fifth estate survey suggests. Nearly one-third of those who answered the survey, part of CBC's Rate My Hospital project, said their...

Canadians for the first time get a look inside their hospitals with an online poll by the CBC's flagship investigative show, the fifth estate, distributed to registered nurses across the country as part of Rate My Hospital, a sweeping series about health care. More...

Rising hospital parking rates amount to a tax on ailing Canadians, says one medical specialist. More...

One in 200 Canadian seniors had to be admitted to hospital because of an adverse reaction to a drug, according to a new report. More...

A New York City mother whose hands and feet were amputated during a medical disaster won a $17.9 million settlement from the city and a hospital, officials say. The settlement ended a three-year legal battle for Tabitha Mullings, who lives in New York's Brooklyn borough, the New York Daily News...

A jury has awarded a Sacramento woman $167 million in her lawsuit against a hospital for workplace harassment and wrongful termination. Former surgical physician's assistant Ani Chopourian filed the lawsuit against Mercy General Hospital for disciplining and harassing her because she complained...

AP - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Sunday his daughter Bella remains in the hospital with pneumonia but is recovering after a rough 36 hours. More...

Winnipeg police are investigating after someone used pepper spray in the city's largest mall, sending three people to hospital. More...

AP - Fleeing medical staff abandoned patients to a fire that killed 89 people Friday as smoke poured through the seven-story hospital in this city in eastern India, officials said. Six administrators were arrested. More...

Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. is reported to be investigating how a spreadsheet containing personal medical data on 20,000 patients that was being handled by one of its billing contractors ended up being publicly available for nearly one year on a homework help site for...

A 17-year-old Strathmore boy has been charged with trafficking in the death of another teen who died after taking the drug Ecstasy last week. The 15-year-old, also from Strathmore, died on June 3 after he allegedly bought the pills from the accused, police said. Strathmore police were called...

<div>Some 300 health care workers in Saskatoon are walking off the job Friday. It's the latest job action from the Health Sciences Association of Saskatchewan, which is in a contract dispute with the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations. Talks broke down Thursday between the union...

A young woman is dead and four men injured after a confrontation between two groups in a Saskatoon parking lot early Sunday, police say.Police are investigating a mullitple stabbing incident in Saskatoon early Sunday. Police were called to a parking lot in the 3300 block of Fairlight Drive...

Cairo (CNN) -- The criminal trial for Hosni Mubarak and his two sons has been scheduled for August 3, the attorney for the former Egyptian president said Wednesday. Mubarak, who was forced from office in February, is accused of consenting to a plan to kill protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square on...

New Glasgow police say they have charged a 14-year-old boy in connection with a phoney bomb threat that led to the evacuation of the local hospital. Const. Ken MacDonald said the teenager has been charged with mischief, breach of probation and conveying false messages. The boy was arrested on...

<div>Vince Li, who beheaded a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba in 2008, may soon be allowed extended walks on the grounds of his mental hospital. Li is responding to treatment, is "co-operative and polite" and has provided "absolutely no difficulty" to staff at the Selkirk Mental...