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Up to 13 people die from drug overdoses in B.C. within hoursHealth | 207197 hits | 12:12 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The BC coroners’ service says up to 13 people died from drug overdoses in the province within hours, six of them in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. 'Starving, it's the worst': students flock to campus food banks to avoid hungerHealth | 207036 hits | 5:10 AM on Friday | posted by shockedcanadian
Nutrition North failing to keep food healthy and affordableHealth | 206918 hits | 2:09 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A researcher has found that a federal subsidy intended to reduce astronomical food prices for northern families has resulted in stale-dated, unreliable food on store shelves without making grocery bills more affordable.'Most hated man' Martin Shkreli bested by Australian high school students
For just US$2 a pill, a group of Australian high school chemistry students have recreated the life-saving drug that American Martin Shkreli charges $750 for.
Health | 207130 hits | 2:32 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
For just US$2 a pill, a group of Australian high school chemistry students have recreated the life-saving drug that American Martin Shkreli charges $750 for.How drinking too much water can lead to a medical emergency
A newly published report highlights the potential dangers of drinking too much water while dealing with something as simple and common as a urinary infection.
Health | 206933 hits | 2:29 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A newly published report highlights the potential dangers of drinking too much water while dealing with something as simple and common as a urinary infection.UN apologizes for Haiti cholera spread, not for causing it
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apologized Thursday for the UN not doing enough to contain the spread of a cholera outbreak in Haiti, but he stopped short of apologizing for bringing the disease to the Caribbean nation.
Health | 206913 hits | 2:28 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apologized Thursday for the UN not doing enough to contain the spread of a cholera outbreak in Haiti, but he stopped short of apologizing for bringing the disease to the Caribbean nation. Health | 206905 hits | 12:26 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A doctor who fled war-torn Iraq a decade ago has been charged with voyeurism after staff at a Nova Scotia medical clinic were surreptitiously filmed while using the washroom. Baby wakes from coma days after doctors wanted to pull life support | Fox NewsHealth | 207090 hits | 4:09 AM on Thursday | posted by shockedcanadian
In September, doctors told 1-year-old Marwa�s parents that their little girl was facing impending death and put her in an induced coma. Sabra brand hummus recalled due to Listeria riskHealth | 207937 hits | 12:01 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Sabra Canada Inc. has issued a wide-ranging recall on many of its hummus products due to a possible Listeria contamination.Packing On Surprise Pounds' It Could Be Due To Sleep Eating
Jason Carney was struggling with a demanding job, he was putting on weight, and decided to make some adjustments in his life.
Health | 208031 hits | 12:10 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Jason Carney was struggling with a demanding job, he was putting on weight, and decided to make some adjustments in his life. Toronto still 'child poverty capital' of Canada, warns reportHealth | 206952 hits | 9:44 AM on Monday | posted by shockedcanadian
Toronto remains Canada's "child poverty capital," with 133,000 children living in poverty according to a new report. CPS drops prosecution for sex-selective abortion against an Asian family ove 'racist' fearsHealth | 206901 hits | 9:12 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Mandy Sanghera (pictured), a human rights activist, has revealed that the Asian mother was forced to terminate the pregnancy after her family learned she was having a girl. Monthly cost of providing key drugs could be $1-2 per person, experts say
Lack of access to affordable, quality medicines threatens progress towards universal health coverage, one of the targets under the new global development goals adopted by world leaders at a U.N. summit last year, researchers say. Acute hepatitis after heavy energy drink use 'a warning to the consumer,' liver specialist says
A construction worker who consumed an excessive amount of energy drinks developed a rare case of acute hepatitis, U.S. doctors warn. Red Deer doctors want life-saving heart treatment at hospitalHealth | 207969 hits | 7:36 PM on Monday | posted by Alta_redneck
A well-established life-saving treatment for heart attack victims that also reduces health care and other costs is not available in Red Deer. Local doctors say they are fed up with Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre continually being overlooked for a cardiGhost pepper blows out man's esophagus, nearly kills him
A blistering hot ghost pepper blew a hole
in a man�s esophagus in a case that has
shocked the medical community.
Health | 208194 hits | 9:02 AM on Thursday | posted by Alta_redneck
A blistering hot ghost pepper blew a hole
in a man�s esophagus in a case that has
shocked the medical community. Migraines linked to bacteria in mouth
Researchers have found that people who suffer from migraines have more of the bacteria that breaks down nitrates found in certain foods. 
Canadian butter has the highest omega-6 fatty acid content compared with butter produced in 13 countries included in an analysis by researchers at the University of British Columbia – Okanagan.
“It has a psychological problem,” jokes Robert Mitchell, a microbiologist and an associate professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. “It thinks it’s a virus.”
Though it may have an identity crisis, Bdellovibrio Big soda is buying off big health orgs to keep profits and Americans fat
Under the guise of sweet charitable giving, soda makers are handing out millions to big name health organizations so that the groups stay quiet about health issues that threaten to slim down drink profits—not to mention Americans themselves—a new study su Number of Canadians seeking health care abroad in 2015 drops over previous year
During Sunday’s U.S. presidential debate, Donald Trump said Canada’s “catastrophic” health-care system is prompting Canadians to head south for treatment, but a new report says the number of health tourists has fallen year over year. Injured farm worker struggles to survive after support cut offHealth | 207051 hits | 8:14 PM on Friday | posted by shockedcanadian
As one nurse who stole narcotics has firing overturned, others have very different fates | National PostHealth | 206810 hits | 12:54 PM on Wednesday | posted by shockedcanadian
Fungus identified as key factor in the development of Crohn's disease
Recent medical research has focused on links between the fungal composition of human microbiota and chronic inflammatory bowel disease. MD who asked patient 'do you like big ones or small ones'' loses licence for 6 monthsHealth | 207740 hits | 12:26 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
N.L.'s college of physicians and surgeons has ordered a six month suspension of Dr. Adekunle Owolabi's medical licence and will require him to have a chaperone with female patients for two years.Terminally ill minor given assisted death in Belgium
A terminally ill minor has been helped to die in Belgium for the first time since the country did away with age restrictions on euthanasia two years ago, according to the senator who wrote the law.
Health | 207800 hits | 2:09 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A terminally ill minor has been helped to die in Belgium for the first time since the country did away with age restrictions on euthanasia two years ago, according to the senator who wrote the law. Edmonton surgeon pioneers new thyroid procedure for cancer patients
Moving thyroid gland from throat to arm is seeing a decrease in hypothyroidism for patients undergoing head and neck cancer treatments. New generation suffering mercury poisoning at Grassy Narrows, Ont.
More than 90 per cent of the population at Grassy Narrows First Nation is showing signs of mercury poisoning, according to new research released on Tuesday by Japanese experts. Why acetaminophen is the 'most common cause of liver injury' in Canada
Health Canada is imposing new label rules for pain and fever reliever acetaminophen to reduce the potential for liver damage, but some doctors say the rules don't go far enough. New study questions Type 2 diabetes treatment
It’s one of the most entrenched dogmas in modern medicine that people with Type 2 diabetes must tightly control their blood sugar or risk serious long-term complications. But when researchers looked for evidence to support that belief, they couldn’t find B.C. mom only hears constant ringing, faces 2-year wait for cochlear implantHealth | 206911 hits | 12:06 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A nurse and mother of two in Kelowna, B.C., has found herself at the bottom of a two-year waitlist for cochlear implants, all while she struggles to communicate with her family. 'A small Band-Aid on a big cut': Vancouver firefighters race to revive fentanyl addicts
The firefighters at Vancouver's fire hall No. 2 are some of the busiest in Canada, now increasingly spending their days in Downtown Eastside reviving drug addicts who’ve overdosed on the street, as CBC found out joining a crew for a two-shift ride-along. Sugar industry bought off scientists, skewed dietary guidelines for decades
Harvard researchers got hefty sums to downplay role of sweets in heart disease. Winnipeg man fundraising for excess skin surgery after losing 200 poundsHealth | 206757 hits | 11:09 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A Winnipeg man who has lost more than 200 pounds is trying to find funding to remove the excess skin left over from his dramatic change. Elephant sedative carfentanil becomes deadly street drug
An elephant tranquilizer, 100 times more potent than fentanyl, is inching its way to Canada and leaving people dead in its wake, say officials, counsellors and police.World Health Organisation declares Sri Lanka malaria-free | World news | The Guardian
WHO hails country’s ‘truly remarkable’ achievement after no locally transmitted cases of disease for three-and-a-half years
WHO hails country’s ‘truly remarkable’ achievement after no locally transmitted cases of disease for three-and-a-half years CMA recommends minimum age of 21 to smoke potHealth | 206951 hits | 5:06 PM on Wednesday | posted by ShepherdsDog
The Canadian Medical Association has offered the federal government its advice for legalizing marijuana, including age limits and pilot projects. Ontario's labour ministry issues 6 orders against Toronto food company after young worker diesHealth | 206976 hits | 5:00 PM on Tuesday | posted by shockedcanadian
Dr. Brian Day's legal fight for private health care will 'last an awfully long time': expert | CTV News
A British Columbia doctor’s fight for private health care will be difficult and protracted, even if he wins his case before the B.C. Supreme Court, one legal expert says. Dr. Brian Day is challenging the province’s ban on the purchase of private insurance Bed bugs remain intractable problem as new university year beginsHealth | 206844 hits | 3:39 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Many university students are moving into apartments this month that have bed bugs waiting for them, according to an official at Concordia University. 
Sweet, salty, bitter, sour, umami – and “starchy”? It seems we can sense bread-like flavours associated with complex carbohydrates as a taste in their own right Biolyse Pharma stymied in effort to make cheaper version of pricey prostate cancer drug
A small Canadian company is offering to make a prostate cancer drug that costs U.S. patients as much as $129,000 US a year for a fraction of the price but has been unable to get U.S. health authorities to override the existing patents. Canadian surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes
Canadian surgeons are urging people to throw out wire-bristled barbecue brushes because none of them have figured out a surefire way of removing the wires when they get stuck in people's throats. Cancer-stricken mayor mad at Wynne, HoskinsHealth | 207622 hits | 4:23 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
"I've been 'sentenced to die' by @DrEricHoskins using a corrupt, RIGGED political system engineered to NOT pay for out-of-country health care," he said in one tweet.
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