The influencers: How Ottawa uses popular online hosts to get its messages out

The Trudeau government is reaching out to popular YouTube hosts and bloggers to get its messages across to audiences that traditional communications strategies sometimes miss.

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Winnipeg cancer patient spends almost a year documenting chemo pumps with expired safety checks

The Winnipeg Health Authority is calling it a “one-off situation” after a Winnipeg cancer patient documented for months multiple occasions where her chemotherapy pump showed it had passed it inspection date by almost a year.

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Patient in Sweden being tested for Ebola after visiting Burundi

Patient vomited blood had recently been travelling in Burundi. There are no known Ebola cases there but it borders Congo, which has been fighting an outbreak for almost six months.

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Opioids after wisdom teeth removal should be a last resort, not a routine prescription

In most cases, post-surgical dental pain can be controlled without opioids, through anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen, in combination with non-opioid pain relievers, such as acetaminophen.

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Chance of surviving an overdose depends on where you live, advocates say

A man in recovery for a substance use disorder from Windsor, Ont., has a message for other users: If you're going to use, call me.

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Radiation equipment may not have correctly targeted 25 cervical cancer patients

Hamilton Health Sciences says radiation may not have been targeted correctly for 25 cervical cancer patients at Hamilton's Juravinski Cancer Centre who had a specific type of radiation in 2017 and 2018.

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Drawing aids memory more than written notes, Canadian researchers find

Older adults have been found to be just as adept as younger people when it comes to recalling new information, as long as they draw what they're trying to remember.

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