Support local journalism. A digital subscription is incredibly affordable and makes you the most informed person around. Click here and subscribe today. We’ve all heard about the health benefits of … [+4930 chars]
Pharmacists could reduce barriers for people seeking sexual and reproductive health-care services, new University of Alberta research shows. Many pharmacists already offer some support for sexual an… [+4490 chars]
A Sudbury researcher's experience with rheumatoid arthritis has inspired her to study what access to care looks like for patients in northern Ontario. Nancy Lightfoot, a professor at both NOSM Unive… [+1802 chars]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A drug class already routinely prescribed to cancer patients may also prove useful in the treatment of muscular dystrophy, according to researchers from the University o… [+3865 chars]
An Ontario-wide shortage of cold and flu medication has led to partially empty shelves in pharmacies in London. The Ontario Pharmacists Association told CBC News in April that drug stores were seei… [+2053 chars]
NewsDesk @bactiman63 On Monday, Albertas Chief Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Deena Hinshaw announced that there has been a total of 8 adult cases have now been identified in Alberta, all in the Edm… [+1516 chars]
Following the development of a new method that delivers Brazilian tree bark compounds directly into the cancer cell, these substances can now be used to treat acute myeloid leukemia. After five year… [+3242 chars]
Microdosing psilocybin mushrooms has been observed to have mental health and mood benefits after ... [+] just one month of use. Denver Post via Getty Images A new study published in Nature: Scienti… [+4022 chars]
ByAmerican Academy of NeurologyJuly 5, 2022 The seven habits include exercising, losing weight, having good nutrition, maintaining a healthy blood pressure, reducing blood sugar, not smoking, and re… [+4852 chars]
Repeatedly catching Covid-19 appears to increase the chances that a person will face new and sometimes lasting health problems after their infection, according to the first study on the health risks … [+7753 chars]
A third of people who underwent weight-loss surgery at University of Michigan Health from 2018 to 2020 were at high risk of overdosing from prescription drugs, as measured by an algorithm from the st… [+4462 chars]
There will be a day when Pap tests for cervical cancer are replaced by less intrusive and more accurate HPV testing. But as countries around the world, and some provinces here at home, start the tra… [+6972 chars]
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