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With a renewed scrutiny on Nova Scotia's emergency departments, experts say the problems of overcrowding and long wait times stem from issues elsewhere in the health-care system.Dr. Robert Martel, who has spent most of his career as an…

Patients, mostly older people, laid on stretchers in hallways or took oxygen while sitting in wheelchairs as a COVID-19 outbreak stretched public health facilities’ resources in China’s capital Beijing, even after its reported peak.…

Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China‘s industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (43 miles) southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-law had COVID-19 and needed urgent medical care, but all…

CHONGQING: Attached to a breathing tube under a pile of blankets, an old man racked with Covid-19 lay groaning on a stretcher in the emergency department of a hospital in central China Thursday.Also see: Coronavirus Live Updates In…

BEIJING/WASHINGTON: Cities across China scrambled to install hospitalbeds and build fever screening clinics on Tuesday as the United States said Beijing's surprise decision to let the virus run free was a concern for the world.China this…

The number of children transported between Ontario’s overburdened hospitals shot to new heights in November as a triple threat of respiratory viruses piled pressure on the province’s health-care system. New data from Ornge, which…

Twitter boss Elon Musk has converted some office space in the company’s office in San Francisco into bedrooms, believed to be for tired staff members working under a new “hardcore" work ethic. The office bedrooms have not only attracted…

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<!-- -->The Guinness World Records consider it the world's most poisonous common plant.A British woman who was out for a walk in a park was horrified to discover one of the planet's most lethal plants growing in a council flowerbed,…

Pediatric hospitals in Arizona, Rhode Island and Washington DC are being overwhelmed by a recent surge is respiratory illnesses as this winter's 'tripledemic' slams the nation — and officials call for a state of emergency.The country is…