A recall of the emergency anti-allergy medicine EpiPen is expanding to the U.S., Europe, Asia and South America because the allergy shots may not work.
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Ottawa tries again with natural health product consultation
Health Canada is launching a second set of public consultations about a controversial plan to revamp regulations governing self-care products such as natural health remedies, cosmetics and over-the-counter medications.
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Scientists take next steps to prevent further spread of Zika virus
Researchers have begun the second phase of testing of a Zika vaccine developed by U.S. government scientists in a trial that could yield preliminary results as early as the end of 2017.
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Passengers on WestJet, Emirates flights may have been exposed to measles
A health warning has been issued for people who flew on a number of WestJet flights between March 22 and March 24.
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'It's abominable': Vancouver mayor reacts to overdose deaths
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is calling the opioid overdose situation in the city 'abominable,' after another bad week of overdoses and deaths.
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Meet the woman who saves a life a day on Surrey's 135A Street strip
Rosie Rurka has a reputation on Surrey’s notorious 135A Street strip as a woman who brings people back from the dead.
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McDonald's opts for fresh beef, not frozen, for some burgers soon
The fast food giant said Thursday that it will swap frozen beef patties for fresh ones in its Quarter Pounder burgers by sometime next year at most of its U.S. locations.
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'Let's Talk', WHO says, as depression rates rise 18% in a decade
Lack of support for mental health combined with a common fear of stigma means many do not get the treatment they need to live healthy, productive lives.
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Majority of middle-aged Canadians not using condoms, survey suggests
When it comes to safe sex, a new study suggests middle-aged Canadians have something to learn from the younger generation.
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P.E.I. widow awarded benefits after husband's death linked to workplace bullying
A P.E.I. woman has won a three-year battle to get benefits after the Workers Compensation Board linked her husband's death to workplace bullying.
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Pedestrian deaths in U.S. spike 11% in study, but precise impact of mobile devices unclear
Pedestrian deaths are climbing faster than motorist fatalities, reaching nearly 6,000 deaths last year — the highest total in more than two decades, according to an analysis of preliminary state data released Thursday.
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Paramedic calls for more defibrillators after 2 hockey players' lives saved
Pete Wightman and his middle-aged buddies used to joke about the defibrillator at Carleton University's Ice House, where they play hockey every week — but not anymore.
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Universal celiac screening lacks evidence, U.S. panel finds
There is not enough evidence to encourage or discourage doctors from testing all their patients for celiac disease, according to a U.S. government-backed panel.
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25 illnesses in 4 provinces linked to E. coli-tainted Robin Hood flour
There have been 25 cases of E. coli linked to a recalled batch of Robin Hood All Purpose Flour, the Public Health Agency of Canada says.
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Doctor in Ebola case found guilty of misconduct in UK
A tribunal has found a doctor who misled other medics over the temperature of Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey is guilty of serious misconduct.
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Will Canadians buy legal weed online? Canopy Growth is betting on it
Canopy Growth Corp., Canada's biggest publicly traded marijuana company, is getting ready to launch a new online store. The move hints at how legal marijuana sales might look in the near future.
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St. John's class gets hands dirty learning gardening skills from Autism Society
A group of Grade 1 students spent an afternoon learning something they don't normally get taught in school by people who don't normally teach them.
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Students aim to cure design flaws in peekaboo hospital gowns
Nova Scotia university students have designed three prototypes for new hospital gowns that aim to preserve a patient's dignity.
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Jim Pattison donates $75M to Vancouver's St. Paul's Hospital Foundation
B.C. billionaire's donation is the largest by a private citizen to a single medical facility in Canadian history, St. Paul's Foundation says.
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Autism therapy helped Daniel learn to speak, do math, and decide he'll get married
Daniel Thompson has learned to speak, do math and make friends thanks to the intensive behavioural therapy he's received. But the provincial funding for it remains up in the air.
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Skin care cream marketed for children contains prescription steroid, Health Canada warns
Heath Canada warns consumers that ingredients in a skin cream promoted as a natural treatment for children and babies may pose serious health risks.
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Most patients get priority surgeries within target wait times: report
Three out of four Canadians received a hip or knee replacement, cataract surgery, hip fracture repair or cancer radiation therapy within the recommended wait times for those priority procedures, although there was often wide variation from one province to another, researchers say.
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2 Canadians win Gairdner Awards for contributions to medical science
Two Canadian researchers are among the winners of this year's Gairdner Awards, which recognize some of the most significant medical discoveries made by scientists around the globe.
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Concerns about accidental child poisonings grow as pot legalization looms
Health-care professionals in Canada are worried more children will fall victim to accidental cannabis poisoning after the drug is legalized, and are bracing for more emergency department visits and calls to poison control centres.
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Florida's Zika control steps continue
Florida officials say they're continuing aggressive efforts to stop the spread of the Zika virus.
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Alberta woman loses foot, toes, fingers after rare strep A infection
A woman in Red Deer, Alta., is sounding the alarm after says she almost died from a rare strep A infection — sharing her story after hearing about an Ontario girl who lost an arm and a leg to group A streptococcus.
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1 injury a day from firearms in Ontario, pediatricians find
The number of children and young people injured by firearms in Ontario amounts to nearly one a day, say doctors who urge prevention measures.
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'It's sickening': Widow horrified after husband's body forgotten in morgue, not donated to science
Gaylon Roe's final wish was to help others by donating his body to science. Instead, in a strange and rare chain of events, the man's remains were left — forgotten — in a hospital morgue for almost two weeks.
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New advice if you are allergic to tree nuts
If you’re allergic to one kind of tree nut you may not be allergic to all of them. @NightshiftMD has a new study and some important new advice.
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'Dr. Fraud' gets a lot of job offers, and songs to save a life to
Second Opinion is a vital dose of the week's news in health and medicine from reporter Kelly Crowe and CBC Health.
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Why this man had his colonoscopy broadcast live on the internet
When Dan Logan’s gastroenterologist asked him to have his next colonoscopy broadcast live on Facebook, he agreed right away. His mother had died of colon cancer and he thought it was the “right thing to do.”
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Quebec considers broadening access to doctor-assisted death
Quebec will consider broadening its criteria for doctor-assisted death, including the possibility of allowing patients with dementia to provide advance consent to end their lives, Health Minister Gaétan Barrette says.
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Stopping a pandemic before it starts
Scientists have pinpointed the genetic mutation that enabled the deadly H7N9 bird flu to spread to humans.
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Should organ donor consent be assumed? N.L health minister not convinced
Newfoundland and Labrador is looking at reforming how organ donation is done but the health minister says it's unlikely the province will adopt a system that assumes everyone is a donor unless they choose to opt out.
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'We're gamers too,' says blind video gamer about accessibility in mainstream games
Nintendo's Switch console came out earlier this month and now the party game 1-2 Switch is gaining a lot of attention for being accessible to blind and visually impaired gamers. Toronto blind gamer Steve Saylor is raising awareness that blind gamers can play mainstream games, too.
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Nuns model skillful ways to speak to ill seniors
The sisters caring for cognitively impaired elderly nuns in a Midwestern convent spoke to their care recipients in a strikingly different way, linguistic anthropologist finds.
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Should First Nations 'social emergencies' receive the same response as natural disasters?
Some First Nations have been in a state of emergency for years because of suicides now they say social emergencies require the same coordinated response as floods or forest fires.
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Nurse accused in seniors' deaths stated 'it wasn't accidental,' childhood friend says
A childhood friend of accused killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer shares transcripts of their online chats in an exclusive interview with CBC's The Fifth Estate.
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Here's how goggles can help brain-injury patients see the whole picture
Following a brain injury, people can lose their ability to see the left side of the world, but with a special set of lenses developed by researchers at Dalhousie University, patients can train their brains to see both sides of the world.
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Nurse accused of killing seniors tended to them 'just prior to their deaths,' police allege
Nursing home patient records show former nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer, accused of killing eight seniors in southwestern Ontario, tended to them "at or just prior to the time of their deaths," according to police allegations filed in court last fall but kept confidential until today.
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Superbug tuberculosis threatens global control efforts
Experts warn of possible epidemic over next decade
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Tax deduction for fertility treatments expanded, made retroactive for 10 years
Many Canadians who have undergone fertility treatments or turned to assisted reproductive technologies over the past 10 years are now eligible for a tax deduction as a result of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s new budget.
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'She was my only girl': Nunavut teen's death sheds light on failures in fighting TB
The death of 15-year-old Ileen Kooneeliusie from TB in January raises questions about how a person living in a territory with a high incidence of tuberculosis could not be diagnosed in time to save her.
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Read my lips: No, wait. A new computer program can do it more accurately
Scientists have built a computer program that can lip-read better than humans. But why? Tech columnist Dan Misener has the answers.
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Canada's smoking rate falls slightly
The number of Canadians who smoke tobacco appears to be dropping, a national survey suggests.
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Rare cancer linked to deaths with textured breast implants, FDA says
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it has received reports of 9 deaths and more than 350 cases of a rare blood cancer linked to breast implants
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'He took his last breath in my arms': retired B.C. doctor died in hospital waiting room, wife says
Janice Joneja says her husband Dr. Rajinder Joneja who is a retired neurologist and psychiatrist died in the waiting room of Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops because he didn't get the help he needed.
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Prostate cancer patients report that surgery offers worst outcome on quality of life
Two studies published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association try to explore the ramifications of prostate cancer treatment, by getting patients to rank their quality of life — defined as sexual, urinary and bowel function — after surgery or radiation.
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Fish oil supplements during pregnancy don't improve child's intelligence: study
Children from mothers who took fish oil supplements during pregnancy showed no improvement on a variety of developmental outcomes.
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'I really think people will die': Americans fear losing health care under Trump's plan
As Republican lawmakers and Donald Trump's inner circle start hacking away at Obamacare, some Americans are getting worried. The Current shares stories of hope and fear for the future of health care under President Donald Trump.
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Mississauga girl loses 2 limbs after infection doctors thought was influenza
Parents of an 11-year-old girl who had two limbs amputated after a serious bacterial infection caused by Streptococcus A are asking why their daughters condition was dismissed as the flu.
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Care guidelines for cancer survivors often unclear, review finds
Treatment guidelines on care for survivors of the most common cancers in North America and Europe often lack specifics, a review finds.
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Quebec government to announce long-awaited autism plan
It's been a long wait but Quebec Public Health Minister Lucie Charlebois will finally unveil the government's autism action plan this morning.
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Toronto's overdose plan aims to stop drug users from 'dying in the shadows'
For Olympia Trypis, the recommendations in the city's new overdose action plan can't be in place soon enough. And she wants "hard dates" when it comes to supervised injection sites in Toronto.
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