Scientists have conducted numerous studies trying to answer why some kids with more vulnerable adverse childhood are more likely to experience poor mental and physical health in adulthood.
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Does adversity make you stronger? Scientists say not always
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B.C. launching new payment model for family doctors in 2023
The provincial government says physicians can opt out of the current fee-for-service system starting in February. The new payment model takes into account factors such as time spent with patients and the complexity of their needs.
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This blind man has been fighting for years to get 'talking prescriptions' at his local pharmacy
A Gatineau, Que. man, who is blind, has been fighting for five years to get 'talking prescription' service at his local Rexall, which the company has promised but not yet delivered.
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Women's health at risk as Lethbridge battles severe obstetrician shortage, doctors warn
A shortage of obstetricians in Lethbridge is being called a crisis, and it's sparking concerns about patient safety.
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Alberta government to try to prohibit COVID-19 mask mandates in schools, Smith says
The Alberta government is moving to try to prohibit any COVID-19 mask mandates in schools, Premier Danielle Smith said Saturday morning.
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Without a family doctor? Physicians offer some short-term solutions
Millions of Canadians are without a family doctor. While they look for a primary care provider, physicians have some tips on how to help people manage their health.
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Ebola spreads in Uganda as country waits for experimental vaccine
There is no known treatment for the new Sudan Ebola virus strain rapidly spreading in Uganda, but there’s hope an experimental vaccine could be going into arms in the next few weeks.
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Artificial sweeteners are touted as an alternative to sugar — but research casts doubt on their safety
Researchers behind a large-scale nutrition study out of France say they’ve found associations between consumption of artificial sweeteners, like aspartame and sucralose, and cardiovascular disease and cancer.
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'Grave danger' of further shortages unless more done to attract, retain physicians: Doctors Manitoba
The physician advocacy organization Doctors Manitoba is recommending five steps to government the group hopes will help the province recruit and retain staff in a health-care system that continues to lose workers.
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2 new COVID-19 subvariants are growing twice as fast as B.A.5 in Ontario, public health agency says
Public Health Ontario says the proportion of the new BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 Omicron subvariants in the province is growing twice as quickly as the dominant BA.5 strain.
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Marketplace tests 5 popular foods with healthy-sounding claims that may be too good to be true
The packaging on some food items makes big, bold health claims, so a CBC Marketplace investigation puts food labels to the test, revealing whether they deliver — and how slick marketing may be convincing Canadians to buy them, say experts.
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This mom sits outside her child's school all day. She wants more help for students with disabilities
A single mom says she's resorted to waiting outside of her daughter's north Toronto high school in case the teen needs help going to the washroom. She's looking for answers from her daughter's school and the board, She's also calling for systemic change.
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Air Canada to cover cost of passenger's broken wheelchair, nearly 2 months after damaging it
Air Canada will cover the cost of a new wheelchair after a disability advocate found hers damaged following a flight to an accessibility conference in September.
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Nova Scotia prepares to launch new health-care work and training programs
The province has reached a deal to create a bridge program for internationally trained medical lab technicians. Another pilot project will see physician assistants employed in emergency departments.
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Ontario nursing college now allowed to temporarily register international nurses
Ontario's nursing college can now start allowing internationally educated nurses to practise while they work toward full registration.
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It's Disability Employment Awareness Month, but still lots of room for improvement, say advocates
Agata Gawron doesn't know if she should disclose her disability while looking and applying for work.
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Alberta surpasses 5,000 total COVID-19 deaths
There were 28 more COVID-19 deaths in Alberta reported over the past week.
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Air Canada apologizes for not letting blind woman fly with guide dog
Air Canada is apologizing after not allowing a passenger who’s blind to board a flight from Toronto to Minneapolis with her guide dog. Dena Wainwright, 49, says she will never fly the airline again after an ordeal that cost her $2,000.
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'Perfect storm' has Albertans waiting long hours in backlogged hospital emergency rooms
Wait times can vary by hospital and depend on the time of day, but can sometimes range from two hours to 17 hours.
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First responders detail dangers of closing Thunder Bay, Ont., street outreach services before winter
First responders in Thunder Bay, Ont., are expressing disappointment and concern as they approach a winter without life-saving outreach services in the northwestern Ontario city.
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Sask. woman recovering from addiction fears for her sister as drug crisis sweeps through province
Saskatchewan is on track for another year-over-year increase in drug toxicity deaths.
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Climate change has broad effects on health-care systems, medical journal says
When you have to shut down a hospital operating room because there's so much wildfire smoke your instruments can't be kept sterile, you know climate change is affecting health care.
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China begins deploying COVID-19 booster vaccine administered orally
The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday in what appears to be a world first.
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What women need to know about breast cancer screening in Canada
On top of routine mammograms, experts say women should become familiar with their breasts and advocate for routine screening.
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Doctor thinks of quitting, cancer patient faces long wait during 'overwhelming' weekend in Winnipeg hospitals
A Winnipeg physician says his emergency department is reaching its breaking point and, for the first time, he's thought of quitting.
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Family asks coroner to reopen investigation of woman found dead on floor of Montreal hospital ER
Candida Macarine's family says a coroners investigation 'inexplicably failed' to examine the case in a thorough manner.
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Amid increased suicide numbers, Labrador City resident calls for better mental health and addictions services
Keith Fitzpatrick says while mental health and addiction services in Labrador West have improved in recent years, much remains to be done to ensure people have good access to care.
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Uganda says 9 more Ebola cases confirmed in Kampala, urges vigilance
Uganda has reported nine more Ebola cases in the capital Kampala, bringing the total number of known infections to 14 in the last two days, the health minister says.
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Canadian medical journal acknowledges its role in perpetuating anti-Black racism in health care
Canada's premier medical journal says it's eager to address the role it plays in perpetuating anti-Black racism in health care and spark the broader change needed to dismantle structural barriers to equitable care.
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Research, remedy and regulation: the changing dynamics of psychedelic therapy in Alberta
Earlier this month, Alberta announced new regulations for the use of psychedelics in therapy. Researchers and health-care professionals are increasingly exploring how drugs like ketamine can be used for mental health treatment.
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Preventable bed sore contributed to this man's painful death, and they're on the rise
Ken O’Leary acquired a bed sore ‘the size of an avocado’ while in an Ontario hospital — contributing to a painful death. He is one of thousands of Canadians who develop the excruciating and potentially deadly sores every year, after being admitted to hospital.
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This streamlined OR gets people into surgery faster. Now, other hospitals want to copy it
When a surgeon saw patients stuck waiting for orthopedic surgeries, he designed a better operating room that's publicly funded to do the procedures faster and more efficiently. It's a model other hospitals are interested in copying.
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Why this woman is fighting to get more help for people with long COVID
Susie Goulding knows what it's like to have long COVID. She's been dealing with symptoms since March 2020 and has been pushing governments to better recognize long COVID.
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New immune-evasive Omicron strains are coming. Is Canada ready?
Canada is heading into a potentially brutal winter as COVID-19 hospitalizations rise, Omicron continues to rapidly mutate and booster uptake remains stagnant.
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Most of the people N.B. quietly removed from its COVID death totals had the virus when they died
New Brunswick health officials retroactively removed 46 people from its COVID death totals last week even though records show 31 had the virus listed as a "cause of death" on their official death registration forms. As well, the deaths would have been counted as COVID-related deaths in other jurisdictions.
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Customer complaints about infections prompt spa east of Toronto to close its pools
A new spa in Whitby, Ont. has closed all of its pools in the wake of reports by customers of skin rashes, flu symptoms, ear infections and inflamed lymph nodes.
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Ontario reports 109 new COVID-19 deaths, a number not seen since May
Ontario is reporting 109 new COVID-19 deaths over the past seven days — the single highest death count since early May during the sixth wave of the pandemic
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Massive recall issued for dry shampoo products over cancer risk
More than a million dry shampoo products from Bed Head TIGI, Dove and Tresemmé are being recalled across Canada due to the detection of a cancer-causing chemical.
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Widow turned away from St. John's hospital after husband's workplace death, family says
John Connors says he can't sleep because he's worried what could happen to his daughter after she was denied admission to the Waterford Hospital.
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Key public health decisions made in N.B. in February informed partly by false death counts
Dozens of missing COVID-19 death records revealed by the New Brunswick government last week caused health officials to mislead themselves about when fatalities from last winter's Omicron wave had peaked just as they were faced with critical decisions about when to loosen health protections.
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Hearing aids just got dramatically cheaper in the U.S. Will it happen in Canada?
Hearing aids just got dramatically cheaper in the United States, now that major retailers and pharmacies are permitted to sell them without a prescription. The change has many Canadians wondering whether it will happen in this country.
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Northern B.C. patients wait just to get on a wait list as HR reports show doctor shortage continues
Human resources reports from B.C.'s Northern Health authority, long plagued by staffing shortages and ER closures, offer the latest glimpse into Canada's ongoing health-care crisis.
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Ontario quietly changes LTC rules; visitors no longer have to mask in resident rooms
Ontario has quietly changed masking rules for long-term care homes, no longer requiring visitors or caregivers to wear them when alone with a resident in their room.
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'Unprecedented rise' in cholera outbreaks prompts WHO to switch vaccine strategy
The World Health Organization said on Wednesday it will temporarily suspend the standard two-dose vaccination regimen for cholera, replacing it with a single dose due to vaccine shortages and rising outbreaks worldwide.
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N.L.'s premier asked doctors to contact him directly about working in the province. They had a lot to say
Their names are redacted for privacy reasons. But their experiences trying to practise medicine in Newfoundland and Labrador are not. Here is what they told Andrew Furey in recent months.
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Monkeypox conspiracy theories spread rapidly on TikTok, says U of A researcher
New research from the University of Alberta tracked conspiracy theories about monkeypox on TikTok that made false claims about everything from vaccines to Bill Gates.
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First Nations man had 'quite good' chance of survival if taken to hospital instead of cell, inquest told
Don Mamakwa of Kasabonika Lake First Nation had a 97 per cent chance of surviving the night if he had been brought to hospital instead of a Thunder Bay, Ont., police cell in August 2014, an emergency-room physician tells an inquest.
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Polio may resurge globally, WHO says, as countries pledge funds
Various governments pledged $2.6 billion US on Tuesday toward a global plan to again try to eradicate polio, following its comeback, the World Health Organization says.
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Facing a fall COVID surge, Tam calls on Canadians to get their bivalent booster shots
Canada's chief public health officer said Tuesday that Canadians should get their dose of a recently authorized bivalent vaccine to stave off a fall resurgence of COVID-19 — a development that could prompt the return of some pandemic-related restrictions.
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Alberta Health Services board member resigns in response to premier's plan to replace directors
With the looming threat of firing hanging over their heads, at least one Alberta Health Services board member has resigned.
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For one year, I desperately chased sleep. Once I stopped trying, it found me
Saniya Warwaruk tried — and abandoned — pills, potions and breathing exercises in her year-long battle with insomnia. Finally, she realized her own anxiety about not sleeping was fuelling the flames.
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What 2 new studies reveal about long COVID in Canada
Two new large-scale reports, one published by Statistics Canada and the other in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, are giving a clearer picture of the long-term impacts of COVID-19 infections on Canadians and the health-care system.
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