Various research works by scientists and medical experts have suggested that malaria, and particularly repeated episodes, could be responsible for hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases. A recent report by the …
A Calgary medical clinic is working to tackle the shortage of family physicians by empowering other health-care providers to play key roles in patient care. Faced with a waitlist of thousands …
New Delhi: On the hottest days, risk of hospitalisation for people with metabolic disorders such as those of sugar and blood pressure, and obesity, almost doubled as compared to days …
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 …
A family doctor who helped create an anti-Black racism course for health professionals says she hopes participants will “unlearn” long-standing discriminatory practices that contribute to inequitable care for a vulnerable group. …
More than six million Canadians say they do not have regular access to primary care physicians. It’s a crisis the experts say has caused untold harm and cases of preventable death and disease …
Experts are watching closely as cases of invasive pneumococcal disease rise in Alberta. The potentially life-threatening illness is caused by bacteria known as Streptococcus pneumoniae, which often strike after viral …
As Tim Brooks left a hospital washroom where garbage and urine had spread on the floor, he saw a partially dressed patient on a stretcher in the emergency department. Brooks covered the …
The Dose25:32What should I know about how drinking can affect my health? It’s a tradition to raise a glass to toast the new year. And for most Canadians, that glass …
Gert-Jan Oskam could no longer walk after a cycling accident 12 years ago in China. He suffered an incomplete spinal cord injury, so while he had some sensation in his lower …