Category: Health & Medicine

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5403408.1576795150!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/menstrual-cup.jpg Nunavummiut will soon have better access to reusable menstrual products, thanks to a donation from a southern business.  Northern Shopper, an online store based in Ottawa that ships goods to Nunavut, has donated 3,000 menstrual cups to the territory’s Department Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5405911.1576954991!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/shutterstock-huge-file.jpg Jenni Schaefer doesn’t consider the holidays a stressful time of year anymore, but it wasn’t always that way. “It’s like night and day compared to back when I had an eating disorder,” says the Texas-based author of Living Without Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5405863.1576952666!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/jenny-osburn.jpg A cafeteria worker from the Annapolis Valley is worried kids aren’t getting proper nutrition from cafeteria lunches. Jenny Osburn believes the provincial government could help. “The fact that cafeteria workers are so poorly paid is a key factor in school Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5400430.1576782908!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/benefit-hockey-game-to-raise-funds-for-scholarship-in-memory-of-heart-donor-image-1.jpg Two years after a heart transplant saved her life, Monique Pelletier of Timberlea, N.S., is going to meet the donor’s family. Next month, 18 members of the Krieger family will travel from Alberta to Wolfville, N.S., to meet with Pelletier. “I Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5375594.1574882704!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/vaping-illnesses.jpg Health officials now blame vitamin E acetate for the “vast majority” of cases in the U.S. outbreak of vaping illnesses and have changed their advice to doctors about monitoring patients more closely after they go home from the hospital.  Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5404444.1576861644!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/food-labeling-exercise.jpg Would you put down that bag of chips if you saw it had 170 calories? What if the label said it would take 16 minutes of running to burn off those calories? Health experts for years have pushed for clearer Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5404259.1576858249!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/1176566482.jpg Health officials in eastern Congo have documented the first relapse in the current Ebola epidemic, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The Ebola outbreak in Congo has so far infected more than 3,300 people and killed more than 2,200 since the middle Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5402658.1576779134!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/roy-cockney.jpg Throughout this piece, you will have the opportunity to answer questions from the Seasonal Pattern Assessment Questionnaire (SPAQ), a tool used by psychiatrists to screen for SAD that has been the subject of recent criticism. Answer each question, thinking Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5403254.1576791186!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/breast-implant.jpg Dona Murphy was finally feeling relieved. Eight years after being diagnosed with breast cancer and having a mastectomy, her oncologist declared her cancer-free. Then in November, she received a couriered letter from the hospital where she had her surgery, Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5237850.1565118203!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/486298848.jpg Could you quit drinking alcohol for a month?  The creative minds behind the Baroness von Sketch Show toyed with the idea of a dry January, as the annual ritual has become known.   Going cold turkey after the excesses Read more …