Self-Help Won’t Cure My Chronic Illness
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If you’re ever short on unsolicited medical advice, try starting with the word “inflammation.” The internet will tell you your body’s innate response to injury or illness is well within …
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Ontario cancer patients forced to choose between treatment and jobs
An Ottawa doctor says he’s speaking out after watching patients being forced to choose between treatment and employment. Sandeep Sehdev, an oncologist at The Ottawa Hospital’s Cancer Centre, said he’s seen patients …
Watch Neuralink’s First Human Subject Demonstrate His Brain-Computer Interface
On Wednesday, Neuralink introduced the first human subject to receive the company’s brain implant, a 29-year-old man who has been paralyzed from the shoulders down for eight years after a …
Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination
Hall says when she has access to an interpreter, they are rotated throughout the week, forcing her to repeatedly explain some technical concepts. “Google is going the cheap route,” Hall …
Disability culture is something you are a part of — not something that is happening to you
This column is an opinion by John Loeppky, a disabled artist and freelance writer/editor in Saskatoon. It’s part of a series called Taking a Sitting Stand about disability issues. You can …
WestJet CEO apologizes for accessibility failures
WestJet chief executive officer Alexis von Hoensbroech apologized Thursday for incidents where the airline failed to accommodate people living with disabilities, saying he hopes to improve travel accessibility. “To our guests who didn’t have …
‘Shocking’: Air Canada CEO blasted over accessibility services at House committee
Lawmakers took Air Canada’s CEO to task on Monday over “shocking” and “scandalous” failures to accommodate passengers living with disabilities. At a House of Commons committee hearing on services for …
6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection
To get the new genetic material into cells, they engineered harmless viruses to carry it. Doctors carefully injected a tiny amount of liquid containing the viruses into a part of …
Number of dementia patients in Ontario has risen 48% since 2010, new data released by OMA shows
New data shows that the number of people with dementia is rapidly growing in Ontario and doctors are urging the province to invest in home care now to meet their …
More than 1/3 of New Brunswickers have a disability: StatsCan
More than a third of New Brunswickers are living with a disability, according to the latest Statistics Canada data. At 35.3 per cent, it’s the second highest rate in Canada. The …