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
B.C. launches spring COVID-19 vaccine booster program
B.C.'s health minister has announced a spring COVID-19 booster campaign, with shots recommended for seniors, Indigenous people over 55 and long-term care home residents in particular. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 9, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
Patient who died in Fredericton ER waiting room wasn't checked for more than 2 hours, inquest hears
No medical staff checked Darrell Mesheau's vital signs in the roughly two and a half hours before he died waiting for care at the Fredericton hospital's emergency department, a coroner's inquest heard Monday. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/New Brunswick Source Type: news
Patients with severe COVID-19 at greater risk of developing pulmonary fibrosis, research suggests
Researchers say individuals who have experienced severe COVID-19 are more likely to develop pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that thickens the tissue in lungs and can affect breathing. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 8, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
Annual autism job fair aims to help seekers, employers connect
Monday marks the 8th annual Spectrum Works autism job fair. Organizers and participants say the fair helps fill labour shortages with an underutilized and underestimated part of the population. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Toronto Source Type: news
The Canadian Dental Care Plan starts next month — but many dentists are reluctant to participate
Health Canada says thousands of oral health care providers have signed up to start providing care to 1.6 million seniors this May — a number dental associations say is a low turnout. Some seniors are now learning their dentists won't accept their claims under the new program. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Politics Source Type: news
Diagnosed with cancer, this Hamilton man didn't expect to live past 55. The solar eclipse will mark his 60th
On the day of the total solar eclipse, Prof. Eric Seidlitz of Hamilton's McMaster University will not only be experiencing the celestial event of a lifetime, but also a birthday that he at one time was certain he'd never live to see. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Hamilton Source Type: news
Medical cannabis hurdles remain in Canada. Here's why
When the use of cannabis became legal in Canada, there was hope that it would help ease access for medical users of marijuana. That’s not how it’s worked out for all patients. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 6, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
