health

Citing injury risk and little-known laws around private e-scooter usage, emergency department physician Dr. Stephanie VandenBerg says she gives an “unequivocal nay” to gifting e-scooters for Christmas. Source link

Health professionals in B.C. are asking parents to be vigilant this respiratory season as ER and primary care centre visits for children surge across the province. Source link

A surge of influenza among school-aged kids is linked to the recent deaths of multiple Ontario children, prompting calls for Canadian families to get vaccinated as medical experts brace for a worsening wave of infections across all age groups. Source link

The provincial government has floated the idea of closing Calgary’s only supervised consumption site several times since 2021, and its latest promise to shut the site down next year still leaves many with questions about that timeline, and what will replace it. Source link

Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer of health, says this year’s flu season is expected to hit its peak earlier and could be worse than it usually is. Source link

Sawyer Titus died this past October at age 11. Her parents know what it’s like for sick children and their families this time of year. They began collecting toys in their community last month — and were amazed by the donations that flooded in. Source link

Nearly half of Quebec seniors’ residences that house people at risk of wandering still lack the provincially mandated security measures meant to reduce that risk, Radio-Canada has learned. The recent death of an 88-year-old woman outside a seniors’ residence in Laval, Que., has raised questions about compliance with regulations first announced in 2022 by the Health […]

More than a third of complaints filed by prisoners in Ontario jails this year were health-related, as medical staffing dropped by nearly 50 per cent and inmate populations kept rising, a CBC data analysis shows. One former inmate suffered a septic wound and a miscarriage while incarcerated. Source link

Bethany Oeming has often fielded questions from people wondering what the secret was to her muscular body. At 36, when she was pregnant with her second child, she was diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation called familial partial lipodystrophy. Suddenly, what she thought was simply her “body type” was reframed as a lifelong medical condition. […]

It’s common knowledge that antidepressants are an established and accessible treatment for depression, but it’s not always clear how long patients should stay on these medications — and what role therapy can play in the process of going off them safely.  Source link