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Saskatchewan’s health minister has rejected accusations from a nurses union and the Opposition NDP that some babies from Regina’s neonatal intensive care unit were sent to North Dakota for care. “No child has had to be moved out of the province for capacity issues,” Jeremy Cockrill told reporters Tuesday. “No patient has been moved out…
Did you know that how long you can stand on one leg has been linked to your body’s ‘biological age’? Yup – experts think that because the movement involves so much mental and muscular coordination, it may “undergo the fastest decline.” But speaking to HuffPost UK, former Embarrassing Bodies host Dr Dawn Harper, an author,…
British Columbians who come down with a cold or other minor illness won’t need to show a doctor’s note to their employer, if new provincial legislation is approved. B.C. Labour Minister Jennifer Whiteside and Health Minister Josie Osborne unveiled the legislation Tuesday, saying it will free doctors up from needless paperwork, while preventing sick people…
Autism diagnoses are on the rise in the United States, with new federal data showing one in 31 eight-year-olds were identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in 2022 — the highest rate ever recorded in the country. A report released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that autism diagnoses have…
Elle Sproll knew the feeling well. In fact, it was so familiar, she barely registered it. The then 32-year-old was training for a marathon – a distance she’d run many times before. She was also working full time in marketing for a major bank and and had an active (read: boozy) social life. ‘I’d train…
By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 14, 2025 7:47 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Alberta is reporting 16 more cases of measles, bringing the provincial total to 74 since the beginning of March. The government says the new cases were reported in Alberta’s central and southern…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 14, 2025 2:33 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is promising to shore up Canada’s struggling health care system by hiring 35,000 nurses by 2030. Appearing Monday at an election event in Toronto, Singh also promised to ensure…
Ontario’s new education minister says vaccination rates among students in some parts of the province are concerning as a measles outbreak continues and some school boards suspend unvaccinated students. The province has been dealing with a measles outbreak since the end of last year, with hundreds of new cases reported weekly and concern about the…
The measles outbreak in West Texas didn’t happen just by chance. The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say. “We haven’t had a strong immunization…
How Health and Human Safety Department cuts could affect your health – CBS News Watch CBS News In his first network TV interview since becoming Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sat down with Dr. Jon LaPook. Kennedy said he was not familiar with cuts to programs that could have a devastating…
