Mark Quinn

The medical association wants assurances doctors won’t be lured away from community practices to work with a new virtual service. Health Minister Tom Osborne says no doctors will be “poached” from community-based practices.

Newfoundland and Labrador is hiring a handful of physician assistants for a pilot project that aims to lead to widespread use of the health-care profession already working in many other provinces.

Close to 200 Newfoundland and Labrador patients are waiting for heart surgery, despite recruitment of surgeons and help from surgeons at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.

A petition calling for a much longer recreational food fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador has collected more than 2,200 signatures. The tour operator who started it has been pushing for changes to the food fishery for about a decade.

The wait list for heart surgery in Newfoundland and Labrador has remained largely unchanged for months — hovering around 190 — but that single number doesn’t tell the whole story.

Newfoundland and Labrador's health minister says contracts employing agency nurses are approved and handled by the province's health authority, but the Official Opposition says documents obtained by the party say otherwise.

Newfoundland and Labrador's health minister says a plan to create a registered psychiatric nurse pilot project was dropped after health officials found there was no way to regulate the specialized nurses in the province.

Russian acrobats who defected to Canada in 1992 have returned to St. John's to celebrate a Newfoundland woman who helped them restart their lives. The former members of the world-famous Moscow Circus and their growing families continue to perform across North America.

When St. John's resident Magda Moyes learned the pain from her terminal cancer was only going to get worse, her interest in medical assistance in dying went from advocacy to a deeply personal decision.

It took Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services 18 months to fix Nain's morgue even though health officials were emailed repeatedly — and with growing urgency — that the community had nowhere to respectfully keep its deceased loved ones.