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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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It’s been about 25 years since residents in a fly-in Ojibway community in northwestern Ontario have been without clean, safe drinking water and it looks like they might have to wait at least a couple more years to have the longest Read more …
Surgeons in Baltimore have performed what’s thought to be the world’s first kidney transplant from a living donor with HIV, a milestone for people with the AIDS virus — and one that could free up space on the transplant waiting Read more …
On one side of a gym in Assiniboia, Sask., people are are doing cardio on different exercise machines. On the opposite end, Tammie-Lee Ballinger and her trainer-husband Nathan “Bowe” Ballinger load up a bar with weights. After three 45-pound weights are slid onto Read more …
Jo Cameron smells her smouldering flesh before realising she has even been burnt and scoffs down chilli peppers with ease — and now doctors believe the 71-year-old could hold the key to new treatments for chronic injuries, after discovering she Read more …
Ashley Humby hates hearing “it’s just a bad period.” The 31-year-old woman from Benton, N.L., lives with Stage 4 endometriosis: a severe case of the condition in which cells similar to those in the inner lining of the uterus grow outside Read more …
Montreal’s public health authority is on guard for more cases of meningococcal infections after an 18-year-old student died over the weekend. CBC spoke with infectious disease specialist Dr. Caroline Quach about how to spot the symptoms and who’s at risk Read more …
New data on wait times for priority medical procedures in Canada suggest B.C. patients are waiting longer than other Canadians, but the gap is closing. Since 2004, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has gathered data measuring wait times for selected Read more …
Cancer patients who’ve been hospitalized for mental health problems before their cancer diagnosis face a higher risk of dying from the malignancy, say medical researchers in Canada and the United States. The researchers are calling for more psycho-social supports, such as mental Read more …
Réal Cloutier, the head of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, says employees are mired in a “valley of despair” two years into a massive transformation of the province’s health-care system. And, he wrote in a letter to staff, it’s important to admit when “change sucks.” Read more …
Women with pregnancy-related diabetes are at higher risk for developing cardiovascular disease in the decade after childbirth, a research review suggests. While so-called gestational diabetes has long been linked to an increased risk of heart disease later in life, some Read more …