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In today’s busy world people often get busy with their work unable to take care of their health properly. This Health & Medicine category will give you numerous health-related articles which will help you gain new information about good diets, healthy food habits, diseases, and its causes, symptoms, prevention, and cure.
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https://i.cbc.ca/1.5392653.1576088530!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/karishma-sekhon.jpg The good news is licensed practical nurse Karishma Sekhon, 34, has been accepted to Vancouver Community College to become a registered nurse. The bad news is she’s been admitted to a two-year program that starts four years from now, in 2024. Read more …
https://i.cbc.ca/1.2946948.1507556664!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/ns-paramedics-dispute-20130704.jpg It will be months — if not longer — before the public gets to see a consultant’s report on Nova Scotia’s ambulance system. The provincial government contracted Fitch and Associates for $145,000 in October 2018 to complete the review, which was originally due Read more …
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5393142.1576101699!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/fatima-salem-and-oula-jaber.jpeg The hum of oxygen being pumped into Oula Jaber’s lungs is constant. One look at the long, blue tube connected to her throat and it’s clear that’s what’s keeping her alive. For two years, Jaber has been waiting for a Read more …
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5391934.1576043496!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/terry-coventry.jpg A 74-year-old man from Whitehorse says he’s going to stay in the city for his final days alive, foregoing life-saving hemodialysis available to him in Vancouver, to put pressure on the territorial government to offer the treatment in Yukon. Read more …
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5391725.1576023795!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/rebecca-rhonda-hoffman-rachel.jpg Rhonda Hoffman remembers some of the early signs that her mother was facing dementia: forgetting things, like a name that would usually come back to her, but didn’t; mixing fact with fiction; confusing things. But one of the most Read more …
https://i.cbc.ca/1.2460324.1386793755!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/toe-tag.jpg Ontario’s Office of the Chief Coroner is reviewing 132 cases in which some of the province’s top-billing coroners investigated the death of a person they’d treated within five years of their demise. The potential conflicts of interest were not Read more …
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5372403.1576074422!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/craig-clarence-wide.jpg Clarence Hynes, left, and the woman who raised him, Rita Hynes, and Craig Avery, right, with the person who raised him, Mildred Avery. The two men were born Dec. 8, 1962, in Come By Chance, N.L. — a name Read more …
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5389040.1575992766!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/karelpekarek.jpg Around noon on a Monday in June, a trim 75-year-old man from the suburbs went to the emergency room at Vancouver General Hospital with searing stomach pain. He had been quietly uncomfortable for weeks, but his family insisted he seek Read more …
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5390892.1576000588!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/obesity-brain.jpg New results from the largest long-term study of brain development and children’s health raise provocative questions about obesity and brain function. Does excess body weight somehow reduce brain regions that regulate planning and impulse control? Is obesity a result Read more …
https://i.cbc.ca/1.5389158.1575903874!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/rachel-and-alice-gregoire.jpeg Rachel Gregoire’s daughter, Alice, has been through a lot in her first year of life. Alice has esophageal atresia, which means her esophagus hasn’t developed properly. She was born unable to swallow and has digestive problems as a result. The Read more …