Rural communities boost incentives to attract medical staff
As small communities across Ontario struggle to recruit doctors and nurses, one town has landed on a strategy that appears poised for success: giving them “a bag of money up …
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IUD insertions can hurt — a lot. Can Canada learn from new U.S. pain management guidelines?
The first time Devon Cantwell-Chavez had a long-lasting form of birth control inserted — an intrauterine device, or IUD — it was a smooth, painless experience. That was in 2018, …
Having trouble reaching 10,000 steps a day? You might not need that many, anyway
Up To Speed7:53The science behind step counts Your Fitbit tells you to aim for it. Your mom touts it as age-old wisdom. Your doctor might even say it’s what’s best …
Pilot lone survivor in Nepal plane crash that killed 18 others
A plane crashed Wednesday just after taking off from Nepal’s capital of Kathmandu, killing 18 people and injuring a pilot who was the lone survivor. Authorities have pulled all 18 …
Population growth, health-care crunch could lead to more Code Orange alerts on P.E.I.
There have been three Code Oranges called at P.E.I. hospitals in just over three months, compared to the same number in all of 2023. With the province’s population continuing to …
Canadian patients’ needs are increasingly complex. Health care should reflect that: CMA
More Canadians should receive their main health care through teams of professionals so their increasingly complex needs can be met while not paying privately for it, the Canadian Medical Association …
Why the health-care sector is hiring temporary foreign workers like never before
Persistent staffing shortages in the health-care sector across Canada in the wake of the pandemic have led some organizations, including some provincial government agencies, to increasingly call upon temporary foreign workers to …
TikTok has been called the therapist’s couch of Gen Z. But not all the #mentalhealth info checks out
Spark53:59Being Human Now 9 – Wellness It’s “scroller beware” on #mentalhealth TikTok, where content ranges from informed to misleading, and has the potential to be both helpful or harmful, mental …
Extreme heat is a global killer — and worse for our health than previously thought, new research shows
This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can …
Uterine fibroids can be debilitating. Treatments offer hope for less pain, faster recovery
They can be as small as a grape or as large as a cantaloupe, and in some cases even bigger. Uterine fibroids — non-cancerous tumours that grow spontaneously inside the …