Mark Quinn

Doctors in Newfoundland and Labrador says quick implementation of a province-wide electronic health information system threatens to harm patients and push some physicians to retire or leave the province.

Newfoundland and Labrador health officials have been promoting urgent care clinics as one of the ways the province will reduce wait times at emergency rooms. Dr. Scott Wilson, an emergency doctor in St. John's with the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians, says they're mistaken.

Thousands of Canadians donate their organs annually, but so far in 2025 fewer than five of them are from Newfoundland and Labrador. A St. John's man who received a kidney transplant is speaking out because he wants that to change.

Memorial University is looking at a policy that will require its Indigenous students and faculty to submit proof of membership in a recognized Indigenous group before being able to access funding and jobs set aside for Indigenous applicants.

DFO scientists are predicting the capelin stock will be lower in 2025 than it was in 2024 when it was close to its post collapse high.

Research in Newfoundland led to a treatment that keeps Chad Pelley's heart from stopping, but the genetic variant he carries still poses a threat. The next step is finding a treatment that gets to the root of the problem caused by the genetic variant and erases the risk of heart disease caused by it.

A woman who was brutally raped by Sofyan Boalag when she was 15 says he deserves no compensation after he was violently attacked at a federal prison.

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.

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's one of the problems caused by the severe shortage of family doctors in central Newfoundland, a symptom of what Dr. Lynette Powell calls an ongoing health care crisis. Powell says many women are waiting too long for cervical cancer screening and it's having dire consequences in some cases.