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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…
Ferenc Jakab needed heart surgery, and a robot was called into action. The 60-year-old Ontario resident had been monitoring a heart murmur for over 20 years, checking in with his doctor every couple of years. At a recent visit, the news shifted: it was time for surgery at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. Jakab was…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted April 12, 2025 12:19 pm Updated April 12, 2025 12:20 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto Public Health is warning people who attended a recent concert at Coca-Cola Coliseum that they may have been exposed to the measles. The city agency says the…
Jenny Pierre has a master’s degree in business administration and speaks five languages. However, her education couldn’t help with something that many other women experience but many don’t want to talk about, but Pierre does. “At my lowest point, my menstruation was 28 days per month. It was very painful. I would end up in…
As United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. urges Americans to get the measles vaccine, he’s also casting doubt on it — claiming its protection fades “very quickly.” But experts say that’s simply not true, pointing out that the vaccine can provide protection for decades, if not a lifetime. During a…
By Kathleen McKenna Global News Posted April 11, 2025 5:00 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Nova Scotia researcher has proven that lemongrass essential oil can effectively be used to repel ticks. The finding is especially important in the province, which has seen an increase in black-legged ticks…
After eight years together, it’s fair to say my partner and I have some ongoing arguments. Nothing big, nothing relationship-threatening, just things we’ve debated the entire time we have been together. One of these is how I sleep. He says I sleep like a goblin; duvet wrapped as tightly as possible, fists to my chest…
