A team of heart specialists from Quebec have announced that they have been successful in implanting a pacemaker that is compatible with MRI scans. The procedure is definitely a first as pacemakers are not compatible with MRI machines and can cause trouble with heart rhythm.

Montreal’s West is all set to get a local community service centre (CLSC). Acknowledging the rising concern over the health services in the community, Quebec government has made an investment of $22.5 million in order to build the health centre for the people.

The outbreak of cholera in Haiti has found its first victim in Quebec as a woman travelling back to Canada from the Caribbean was found to be suffering from the condition. Though, authorities have announced that there were very chances of the disease transmitting to other people.

Quebec is planning to curb smoking by dedicating this whole week in raising awareness regarding the dangers related to smoking. The region is also planning to highlight the effects of passive smoking.

This week will be celebrated as National Non-Smoking Week in the region. Quebec has already banned smoking in the restaurants and bars.

In a historic judgement, doctors in Quebec have been ordered by a Quebec Superior Court to pay $7 million to patients after 10,000 of them were deprived of proper treatment.

In a 3 day strike held in 2002 and 2003, patients whose care was suspended for those 3 days took out a class action suit against the medical specialists.

The Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation announced a new strategic funding competition; up to $5 million of the money collected through that will be invested for breast cancer research in Quebec.

The Cancer Research Society will help setting a meticulous and transparent selection process with its expertise, in 2008, an amount worth $4 million was given to nine research teams.

A Quebec lady who asserts that she shell out a doctor $2,000 to speed up surgical procedure for her cancer- suffering mother is lifting queries regarding whether corruption is being experienced in the region’s health-care organization.

Quebec's breast-cancer screening program has come under heavy fire from two patients and one widower, who accused their radiologists of negligence that resulted in failure to detect their breast cancers earlier during routine mammography exams. The lawyer representing the cases have targeted the "inadequate and insufficient" breast-cancer screening program

There is discrimination against foreign-trained physicians in Quebec, which is itself running short of family doctors.

Police searched roughly three dozen suspects on Thursday at sites in Montreal and Quebec City in an extensive attack that immediately closed four marijuana-distribution stores called “compassion centers”.