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An Ontario resident who recently travelled to East Africa is being tested for Ebola, according to the province’s health ministry. Source link

A representative for the family of an international student who died after donating plasma at a Winnipeg for-profit centre says she had an enlarged heart and the process would have caused profound stress on her body. Source link

The World Health Organization has confirmed that the latest Ebola outbreak, of the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus, in Congo and Uganda is a public health emergency of international concern but not a pandemic emergency. Dr. Paul Ngwakum, senior health advisor for UNICEF Africa, says in the absence of a vaccine, it is ‘very […]

After 68 years of nursing education, the University of New Brunswick is offering its first nursing PhD program, to try to ensure the continued advancement of nursing science. Source link

Families whose loved ones rely on around-the-clock support say their workers are being denied entry when the client is admitted in acute care. N.L.’s Department of Health says it’s working on a policy to address that issue, three years after the Citizens’ Representative recommended it. Source link

Some Canadian pharmacists are already stocking their shelves with generic versions of semaglutide, more commonly known by the brand name Ozempic. But will these generics be just as good, and how much will the cost come down? Source link

Surgery to remove the fallopian tubes as a permanent method of birth control could also reduce a woman’s risk of the most common ovarian cancer, but a group of B.C. researchers and physicians say the procedure isn’t widely known across Canada and they are trying to change that. Source link

A University of Calgary student is drawing from her lived experience with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) to further the medical field’s understanding of the neurological disorder through a new study looking at its long-term impacts. Source link

Argentine investigators searching for the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise that set sail last month were trapping rodents in the forests surrounding the southernmost city of Ushuaia on Tuesday, with the aim of detecting the possible presence of the virus in an area previously thought unaffected. Source link

Cynthia McCutcheon thought she heard wrong when she was told the next available appointment for a mammogram in the Halifax area was in July 2027. She’s worried some cancers will be diagnosed at later stages because of the backlog in Nova Scotia. Source link