Category: Health & Medicine

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5365494.1574199583!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/juul-vaping-advertising-e-cigarette.jpg The American Medical Association (AMA) on Tuesday called for a total ban on all e-cigarette and vaping products that are not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as smoking cessation tools. The AMA is urging regulators and Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5364287.1574127380!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/danielle-nadeau.jpg A Vancouver woman who was left scarred from laser hair removal is urging others to do their research before committing to the procedure, which is unregulated in B.C. Danielle Nadeau spent $7,000 to have all of the hair on Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.2576346.1395095028!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/ecg-patient.jpg The inflammation-fighting drug colchicine, already a treatment for gout, dramatically reduces the odds of future cardiovascular problems in people who have just survived a heart attack, a large new study has concluded. While 7.1 per cent of patients who took placebo Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5240308.1574107294!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/hiv-home-testing-kit-20190807.jpg Mailing free home HIV tests to high-risk men offers a potentially better strategy for detecting infections than usual care. That’s according to a U.S. government study that resulted in many more infections found — including among friends with whom Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.4156644.1510682635!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/fluctuating-weight-heart.jpg The Canadian Cancer Society estimates that just over 220,000 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer this year. But annual figures like that don’t tell us if doctors are winning the battle. Now a study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.4156644.1510682635!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/fluctuating-weight-heart.jpg The Canadian Cancer Society estimates that just over 220,000 Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer this year. But annual figures like that don’t tell us if doctors are winning the battle. Now a study published Monday in the Canadian Medical Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5363196.1574085991!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/samoa-measles.jpg Samoa has closed all its schools, banned children from public gatherings and mandated that everybody get vaccinated after declaring an emergency due to a measles outbreak that has so far killed six people. For the past three weeks, the Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.3480425.1488558419!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/waiting-room.jpg Nova Scotia’s health-care system is finding new ways to get more patients in to see doctors sooner by adapting video conferencing technology and cellphone apps. Virtual care has been around for decades. But progress in computer and video technology Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5363019.1574051552!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/noelle-drimmie.jpg At eight-and-a-half months pregnant, Vanessa Whitbread wasn’t expecting to learn her doctors in Flin Flon, Man. had missed a serious medical issue. “It was traumatic,” she said.  Just a few weeks earlier, Whitbread had boarded a plane to Winnipeg 700 kilometres away with her four-year-old in Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.4137681.1496158229!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/london-children-s-hospital.jpg A policy that will end Leo Larizza’s 34-year tradition of visiting patients at London’s Children’s Hospital with gifts is similar to rules in place at two other Ontario children’s hospitals. In a story that broke Wednesday and stirred outrage online, London Read more …