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Some antibiotic products containing amoxicillin in short supply, Health Canada says
Some products containing a commonly used antibiotic are in short supply, according to Health Canada.
04 Nov 2022 | Health -
Updated Pfizer COVID-19 booster enhances protection, company says
Pfizer’s updated COVID-19 booster significantly revved up adults’ virus-fighting antibodies, the company said Friday, releasing early findings from a rigorous study…
04 Nov 2022 | Health -
Breast cancer survivor calls for access to routine mammograms for all Canadian women in their 40s
When Shira Farber turned 40 she asked her family physician about starting routine mammograms. With no family history of breast cancer, and given her age, she said h…
03 Nov 2022 | Health -
Montreal hospital may remove boy’s breathing tube despite parents’ objection: court
A Quebec Superior Court judge has ruled that a Montreal children’s hospital can permanently remove a breathing tube from a five-year-old who has been in a coma sinc…
03 Nov 2022 | Health -
Doctors across Canada eyeing changes to B.C. family physician pay with cautious optimism
Health-care practitioners across Canada are closely watching a promised overhaul of British Columbia’s payment model for family doctors – changes that some say are …
02 Nov 2022 | Health -
Quebec to open clinics led by nurse practitioners to ease Montreal’s ER crisis
The Quebec government is rolling out a series of short-term measures to curb overcrowding in hospital emergency rooms in Montreal, the province’s health minister an…
01 Nov 2022 | Health -
No, COVID vaccines don’t cause infertility. Debunking 5 myths about women’s health
For the past two-and-a-half years, healthcare workers have had their hands full battling COVID-19 as well as the spread of conspiracy theories and misinformation ar…
01 Nov 2022 | Health -
Vaccinating pregnant women with new RSV vaccine helped protect newborns: Pfizer
New research shows vaccinating pregnant women helped protect their newborns from the common but scary respiratory virus called RSV that fills hospitals with wheezin…
01 Nov 2022 | Health -
Canada’s ER crisis: Doctors urge governments to stop finger-pointing and find solutions
Emergency room doctors say patients are experiencing “dangerous” wait times in ERs across the country and it’s time federal and provincial governments stop pointing…
30 Oct 2022 | Health -
Feds working to create stand-alone dental-care insurance program
The Liberal government is moving toward providing dental-care insurance directly to qualifying Canadians, rather than working with provinces and territories to bols…
28 Oct 2022 | Health -
Is it cold, COVID or the flu? Experts say its ‘very difficult’ to differentiate
As flu season approaches amid the rise of new COVID-19 variants, experts say it’s very difficult to differentiate between a cold, flu, or a COVID-19 infection and r…
22 Oct 2022 | Health -
Dry shampoo recall: Why is cancer-causing benzene ending up in hair products?
Cancer experts are calling on companies selling personal care products to increase their vigilance and testing for toxic chemicals after a mass recall of dry shampo…
21 Oct 2022 | Health -
Antidepressants more likely to be prescribed to LTC residents than other seniors: report
Seniors living in long-term care across the country were three times more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants over the last five years than those in the …
20 Oct 2022 | Health -
Over 1.5M dry shampoo products recalled in Canada over cancer risk
Thousands of Unilever hair products have been recalled across Canada due to the detection of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical.
20 Oct 2022 | Health -
Long COVID infections are leading to higher rates of health system use: study
Patients who develop long COVID in Canada are accessing health care more frequently in the months after infection, which means patients are competing for scarcer re…
17 Oct 2022 | Health -
China’s COVID prevention measures to be more scientific, accurate: ‘The dawn is ahead’
China will make its COVID-19 prevention measures more scientific, accurate, and effective, a spokesman for the ruling Communist Party said on Saturday, while reiter…
15 Oct 2022 | Health -
Renewed calls for equal access to fertility care, improved benefits for all Canadians
After losing her second child in October 2019 while she was six months pregnant, Toronto mother Emily Getz set out to reframe her own mindset and that of others whe…
14 Oct 2022 | Health -
Europe headed towards another COVID-19 wave as cases rise: WHO
Another wave of COVID-19 infections may have begun in Europe as cases begin to tick up across the region, the World Health Organization and European Centre for Dise…
12 Oct 2022 | Health -
Canada OKs Pfizer’s bivalent booster targeting Omicron subvariants
Canada now has another weapon in its arsenal to fight COVID-19: Pfizer’s bivalent booster.
07 Oct 2022 | Health -
Eating disorders clinic marks a decade of serving southwestern Ontario
More than 1,400 patients later, a London, Ont., clinic that’s the only of its kind in the province is celebrating 10 years of serving southwestern Ontario.
06 Oct 2022 | Health -
Respiratory illness, dropped masks, worker shortage, factors in Ontario kids’ hospital waits
Pediatric health-care providers say high rates of respiratory illness, dropped public health measures and worker shortages are some of the factors behind unusually …
06 Oct 2022 | Health -
Nobel Peace Prize 2022: Who are the top contenders this year?
The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner is set to be announced Friday in Oslo, Norway.
06 Oct 2022 | Health -
Federal plan to improve access to diabetes care introduced in House of Commons
The federal government has tabled a long-awaited plan in the House of Commons to improve access to diabetes treatment and prevention in Canada, Health Minister Jean…
05 Oct 2022 | Health -
Omicron’s BQ.1.1 COVID-19 sub-variant. Why experts are watching it
Since its emergence in 2020, COVID-19 has produced multiple mutations as it spread across the world.
05 Oct 2022 | Health -
‘Very exciting treatment’: New advanced prostate cancer drug available in Canada
Just looking at Ward Carson, you would never know he’s sick.
05 Oct 2022 | Health -
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to 3 scientists for ‘snapping molecules together’
Three scientists from the United States and Denmark were jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a way of “snapping molecules together” …
05 Oct 2022 | Health -
Warning issued against Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 after promotion in Kelowna, B.C.
Interior Health has issued a warning against the use of Ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19, after flyers were found circulating in Kelowna.
02 Oct 2022 | Health -
Quebec’s COVID-19 indicators on rise, but too early to declare new wave: top doctor
Quebec is seeing a rise in COVID-19 indicators as the fall season begins, but the province’s top doctor stopped short of declaring a new wave of the pandemic, sayin…
29 Sep 2022 | Health -
Military not looking to end COVID-19 vaccine mandate amid pressure from Poilievre
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is demanding an end to the vaccine mandate for military members, but his health critic suggested the situation might need a mor…
28 Sep 2022 | Health -
Canada unlikely to declare COVID victory as travel restrictions loosen
The thundering sound of hoofbeats charging toward the end of the track was met with a chorus of cheers from thousands of revellers in cowboy hats and jeans, dazzled…
24 Sep 2022 | Health -
When will the COVID-19 pandemic officially be over? It’s complicated, experts say
The COVID-19 global health emergency is not yet over, the World Health Organization says, but determining how to measure the end of a pandemic is not a simple equat…
22 Sep 2022 | Health -
Long COVID-19 linked with autoimmune diseases, Canadian study shows
Some long COVID patients suffering symptoms including fatigue and shortness of breath are showing signs of autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, …
22 Sep 2022 | Health -
‘The pandemic is over’ Biden says, as hundreds in U.S. die of COVID-19 daily
U.S. President Joe Biden said in an interview aired on Sunday that “the pandemic is over,” even though the country continues to grapple with coronavirus infections …
19 Sep 2022 | Health -
Quebec family touring the world before kids go blind
From riding noisy dune buggies through the Gobi desert, to watching in awe as a lion slowly savoured its prey on a Namibian safari, the Lemay-Pelletier family are o…
18 Sep 2022 | Health -
Pakistan floods: WHO warns against ‘wave of disease’
The World Health Organization raised the alarm Saturday about a “second disaster” in the wake of the deadly floods in Pakistan this summer, as doctors and medical w…
17 Sep 2022 | Health