Jan 14, 2025 · A recent Health Canada report outlining a 35.2 per cent rise in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection across the country has garnered widespread media attention and sparked concerns about the effectiveness of our public health system.. However, while this rise, juxtaposed with global trends showing a decline in new cases since 2010, poses a significant challenge to our health-care ...

Jan 9, 2024 · At age 60, Kate Revington retired from her role as a university administrator so she and her partner could travel to visit their children overseas while still in good health.

Jan 21, 2025 · "Togethering" is the term for how we live out our vision of how we care for our families together. "Family" can mean the traditional nuclear family across generations, modern-day chosen families, friends and neighbours.

Jan 17, 2025 · The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent announcement that the red dye known as erythrosine, FD&C Red No. 3 or Red 3 – previously authorized for use as a colour additive in food and ingested drugs – will be banned in the U.S. will go down in history as the very definition of a red herring.. While Health Canada says the dye does not pose a health risk to the general population ...

Aug 27, 2024 · What comes to mind when you think of “Gen Z” (1996-2010)? Anecdotally, it seems preceding generations (Boomers, Gen X, Millennials) have seen us as “digitally savvy yet too sensitive.”

Jan 22, 2025 · The federal government’s long-awaited Interpretation Letter of the Canada Health Act (CHA), released earlier this month, missed a significant opportunity to modernize medicare. Passed in 1984, the CHA provides the legislative framework for the universal aspects of our health-care system. Though it ...

Editor’s note: Jan. 19-25 marks Canada’s National No Smoking week, with the Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation conference to be held Jan. 24-25. “Dual users,” people who both smoke cigarettes and vape, are a large but neglected group in Canada. They have not been adequately studied, and they ...

Jun 16, 2024 · ‘We became more confident’: Pandemic proving value of no-touch abortions. The pandemic accelerated the roll out of telemedicine abortion care. Now, as restrictions on clinical medicine ease, we must consider whether to revert back to in-person assessments, or embrace telemedicine as a new normal.

Dec 8, 2024 · Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing rehabilitation medicine, removing barriers inherent in traditional services and offering novel methods to some of the 2.4 billion people the World Health Organization estimates may benefit from rehabilitation.

Jun 8, 2020 · That’s the reality for many patients with Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE for short), a relatively new allergic condition that, by some estimates, affects about 1 to 6 people per 10,000 in developed countries. Although it’s classified as a rare disease, EoE is becoming increasingly common in countries like Canada...