Category: Health Fitness

Cape Breton University is pushing ahead with plans for a new medical school in Nova Scotia despite concerns by local doctors that they are too busy to take on new teaching duties. The doctors say they are already overworked and understaffed and CBU has not shown them a clear plan for potential instructors at the […]

The Dose25:46How should I treat migraine attacks? Read transcribed audio The stereotypical image of a migraine sufferer is someone lying in a dark, quiet room for hours with an ice pack on their head.  And while that is still true in some cases, new effective medications specifically designed for migraine have changed the outlook for […]

Ontario will need 33,200 more nurses and 50,853 more personal support workers by 2032, the government projects — figures it tried to keep secret but were obtained by The Canadian Press. The government recently won a fight in front of the Information and Privacy Commissioner to keep those figures under wraps after denying Global News […]

Bruce Ballingall grew up playing with his five brothers in the sun. He says they didn’t wear hats or sunscreen and they all ended up with some form of skin cancer. “Nobody warned me, until it was too late,” said the 75-year-old whose skull is covered with skin grafted from his legs after the removal of melanomas. He now […]

A rare 911 dispatch service in Ontario’s Niagara Region that includes nurses as part of the team responding to emergency calls has resulted in fewer ambulances rushing to scenes, say program staff.  Niagara Emergency Medical Services has included the nurses since 2019, one of three emergency services in Canada to do so, said Marty Mako, commander of […]

White Coat Black Art441:40:00The Unshakeable MD When Dr. Soania Mathur was 28 years old and pregnant with her first child, she developed a trembling feeling in her right pinky finger. She thought at first it was related to the pregnancy. But after further testing, she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. “From a medical standpoint, I accepted […]

In Ontario, the average wait time for the thousands of prospective patients on the province’s list looking to be connected to a family doctor is, according to the government, around 90 days. But that, of course, is the average. And depending where one may reside in the province, the wait time can be significantly longer. “In some places, we have patients […]

Canadian Blood Services has apologized to the 2SLGBTQ+ community for its “harmful” former policies that prevented or restricted men who have sex with men from donating blood for decades. For years, the blood donor service prevented sexually active gay and bisexual men from donating blood and plasma. Its rules for donors were updated in 2022 to focus on sexual behaviour […]

Scientists in the U.S. and Canada are watching wastewater for early signs of H5N1 as an outbreak of bird flu among American dairy cattle keeps growing. With cases confirmed in dozens of herds across nine states — and roughly 300 people being tested or monitored for symptoms after the detection of one human case — […]

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