Some U.S. clinics offer routine sedation for IUD pain, saying it 'shouldn't feel traumatizing'
The pain has been described as agonizing, searing and excruciating. Now, some Planned Parenthood locations in the U.S. offer routine sedation to patients during IUD insertions and removals. But what are the options for Canadians? (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
Toronto band behind '80s hit releases song on Parkinson's disease
Two members of a Toronto new wave band behind a 1980 international hit have released new music, this time to raise awareness of Parkinson's disease. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Toronto Source Type: news
Toronto band behind 80s hit releases song on Parkinson's disease
Two members of a Toronto new wave band behind a 1980 international hit have released new music, this time to raise awareness of Parkinson's disease. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Toronto Source Type: news
Their parents died within hours of each other. Now N.S. sisters are warning about deadly form of strep
Two sisters in southwest Nova Scotia want people to know about the danger of invasive group A strep — a rare but deadly bacterial infection — after losing both their parents within a couple of hours. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Nova Scotia Source Type: news
Quadriplegic Quebec man chooses assisted dying after 4-day ER stay leaves horrific bedsore
Local health authorities are investigating, after Normand Meunier, who has been paralyzed in both arms and legs since 2022, sought a medically assisted death after developing a huge bedsore while lying on a stretcher in the ER of the Saint-Jérôme, Que., hospital. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Montreal Source Type: news
Contrasting studies show possible impact of safer supply in B.C.
Peer-reviewed research is emerging about the possible effects of British Columbia's safer supply program, with two studies in international medical journals casting the strategy in a different light. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
Wildland firefighters' respiratory health to be studied by UBC
A study monitoring wildland firefighters' respiratory health is underway in B.C. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
When I went back to work, motherhood became a discouraging puzzle of sick days and child care
For new mom Abby Wilson, her daughter's crib represents her endless struggle navigating a career, child care and illness. Now the crib is ready for a new child, but Wilson doesn’t know if she can tackle it all again. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada Source Type: news
'Hundreds of thousands' of seniors will get subsidized dental care next month, health minister vows
Canada's health minister is promising "hundreds of thousands" of seniors will receive subsidized dental work next month under the Canadian Dental Care Plan (CDCP), despite low sign-up rates among the dentists who are expected to provide that care. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 11, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Politics Source Type: news
Trade of safe-supply drugs detailed in Prince George RCMP warrant
RCMP in the northern B.C. city of Prince George spent 10 days last month mounting a surveillance operation on a woman who allegedly stood outside a downtown pharmacy each morning trading illicit drugs for safe supply medication. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
Ontario man guilty of allergy testing fraud in U.S. was key employee of DNA lab in paternity controversy
Kyle Tsui, who is currently in a U.S. jail awaiting sentencing for running a fraudulent allergy testing company, also worked in a Canadian DNA laboratory that a CBC News investigation found has a history of producing wrong paternity results. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 10, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada Source Type: news
10 people in Kingston, Ont., sent to hospital with eye injuries. 2 patients blame a foam party
Ten people in the southeastern Ontario city were treated for chemical eye exposure Monday and needed to have their eyes flushed after what two patients describe as a foam party gone wrong. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada Source Type: news
Family doctors fear new Quebec regulation will make it harder to see patients in need
General practitioners worry the health ministry's proposed regulations will mean more paper and less time to see people who don't have family doctors but who need medical care. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Montreal Source Type: news
Undocumented woman says she was denied emergency C-section at Edmonton hospital
Alberta Health Services is investigating after an undocumented woman says she was denied an emergency C-section at an Edmonton hospital last month. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Edmonton Source Type: news
Canadian DNA lab knew its paternity tests identified the wrong dads, but it kept selling them
A DNA laboratory in Toronto knowingly delivered prenatal paternity test results that routinely identified the wrong biological fathers — ruling out the real dads — and left a trail of shattered lives around the globe, a CBC News investigation has found. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada Source Type: news
