Category: Health & Medicine

https://i.cbc.ca/1.4910518.1556108229!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/health-pharmacy.jpg With two popular depression medications in short supply, mental health experts say prescribing generic replacements or different drugs can lead to relapse and a new set of side effects. Certain formulations of Wellbutrin (bupropion) and venlafaxine — sold under the brand name Effexor, among others — are not available throughout the Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5169597.1560277095!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/kira-ducharme.JPG When Kira Ducharme gets angry at her sister, instead of striking out, she takes three deep breaths. “It helped me calm down when I’m really angry or a little upset,” the nine-year-old Winnipeg student said after a recent school Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5174535.1560463962!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/tampon-applicators-shoreline-cleanup.jpg Environmental advocates would like to see plastic tampon applicators added to the list of items that could be banned in Canada by 2021. Earlier this week, the prime minister announced the Liberal government intends to ban single-use plastics, such as Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5008204.1549477245!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/women-beer.jpg Heavy drinking landed Dawn Nickel in the emergency department four times — twice for alcohol poisoning and two more times when she took pills with alcohol to try and kill herself. “I had no recollection of either wanting to Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5078323.1553922175!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/724826359-sad-woman-depression-grief-lonely-abuse-fear.jpg Sean Hill believes the mental health crisis can be improved by harnessing big data.  The Toronto researcher says harvesting all the available information in the field — whether it’s collected by clinicians or trapped inside patients’ genes and neurons Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5169569.1560195462!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/dr-nam-le.jpg In the moments before a patient undergoes surgery, chances are climate change isn’t top of mind. Yet, the anesthetic gases used to put them to sleep leave a big carbon footprint. In the May online issue of the Canadian Journal Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5173400.1560406951!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/aptopix-congo-ebola-outbreak.jpg A Congolese woman has become the second patient in Uganda to die of the deadly Ebola virus in the latest outbreak of the disease, a health ministry official said on Thursday. The woman was the grandmother of a five-year-old Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.4807256.1560375466!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/byron-wood.JPG A B.C. nurse who lost his job when he refused to attend a 12-step program for addiction will get a chance to argue he was discriminated against as an atheist. Byron Wood contends Alcoholics Anonymous’s emphasis on placing your Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.4965738.1560360329!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/injectable-opioid.jpg A registered nurse fired for stealing opiates and shooting up fentanyl in a hospital washroom should get another crack at showing why she should get her job back, Divisional Court has ruled. At issue, the court ruled, was whether Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5171957.1560343665!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/1074393562.jpg A five-year-old boy vomiting blood became the first cross-border victim of Ebola in the current outbreak on Wednesday, while two more people in Uganda tested positive for the highly contagious disease that has killed nearly 1,400 in Congo. The Read more …