Unpublished Newswire

Two decades after a watershed report on errors and unintended injuries in Canada’s hospitals shook the health-care sector, tens of thousands of Canadians continue to be harmed during a hospital stay — many of them, multiple times, new data show. One in 17 hospitalizations in 2024-2025 — representing more than 153,000 people — resulted in someone experiencing a potentially preventable harm such as a drug error, hospital-acquired infection, a “patient accident” like a fall or radiation burn or some other incident serious enough to require treatment or a prolonged stay, according to the...

Canadian health experts equipped with binders of information on the prolonged measles outbreak will travel in November to Mexico City, where an international committee will determine whether the country maintains its elimination status for the disease. The meeting with the Measles and Rubella Elimination Regional Monitoring and Re-Verification Commission (RVC), which works with the World Health Organization, may be more of a formality than a test for Canada, as it is all but assured to lose its designation.