Makeshift slaughterhouse in a residential garage points to growing concerns about illicit meat sales
Alberta authorities are investigating several cases of illicit meat slaughter and sale. That's leading to concerns about food safety. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Edmonton Source Type: news
Canadian health-care professionals urged to share climate disaster mitigation information
After last summer's heat waves, deadly floods and record-breaking wildfires, some scientists are urging Canadian health professionals to help their patients better prepare for climate change-related extreme weather and natural disasters. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Nova Scotia Source Type: news
No more foam parties without meeting conditions, health unit tells nightclub
Stages Nightclub in Kingston, Ont., must meet a list of specific conditions if it wants to host another foam party, following an investigation by public health officials into several cases of eye irritation. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Ottawa Source Type: news
Ontario scrapping sick notes to cut down on doctors' paperwork
Ontario says it will force employers to scrap requirements for sick notes as part of an effort to cut down on paperwork for family physicians. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Toronto Source Type: news
Pasteurized milk includes remnants of H5N1 bird flu, U.S. officials say
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that it has found bird flu virus particles in some samples of pasteurized milk. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news
Province determines more than 40 medical clinics advertising membership fees
Alberta's health ministry has determined that more than 40 medical clinics in the province are advertising membership fees for services, nearly a year after one such plan landed a Calgary clinic in hot water. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Calgary Source Type: news
Provincial audit turns up more than 40 medical clinics advertising membership fees
Alberta's health ministry says an audit announced last December has determined that more than 40 medical clinics in the province are advertising membership fees for services, nearly a year after one such plan landed a Calgary clinic in hot water. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Calgary Source Type: news
You've been notified by a hospital that your information was stolen. Now what?
Hundreds of thousands of people in southwestern Ontario have started receiving letters from one or more hospitals in the region, notifying them that their information was likely stolen following a cyberattack last year. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Windsor Source Type: news
Canadian doctors are using 'outdated' guidelines to screen for cancer, experts warn
Family doctors use national guidelines to decide whether and when to send their patients for routine cancer screenings — but experts say Canadians' lives are at risk because those guidelines use old data, lack expert advice, and are updated too infrequently. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Politics Source Type: news
Mammograms are routine. For people who use wheelchairs, they're anything but
A Quebec advocacy group for people with disabilities called 94 Quebec clinics that offer mammograms. Nearly half told them they couldn't accommodate people using wheelchairs. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Montreal Source Type: news
How this med school is trying solve the family doctor shortage
Canada is losing its family physicians to burnout and it’s creating a primary care crisis. Can a new program that prioritizes family doctor recruits help solve the shortage? The National's Nick Purdon gets special access to Queen's University and Lakeridge Health’s medical school program to see how it is preparing preparing students for the realities they’ll face on the job. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Fewer medical school graduates choosing family medicine, Ontario doctors warn
An organization that represents Ontario doctors is expressing concern about what it says is a declining number of medical school students choosing family medicine. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Toronto Source Type: news
Inuit leaders disappointed with budget's lack of money for tuberculosis elimination
Inuit leaders are concerned with the Trudeau government’s failure to spend any new money this year specifically on its goal of eliminating tuberculosis in Inuit regions by 2030. Advocates say budget 2024 was "a missed opportunity" and "a major disappointment" on that front. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Indigenous Source Type: news
Sask. officials knew COVID-19 was spreading at an 'exponential' rate in 2021, but refused restrictions
Newly released documents highlight what provincial officials knew about spread of COVID-19 in fall 2021. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Saskatchewan Source Type: news
Peel Region has major childhood vaccination backlog
Peel Public Health’s acting medical officer is warning the regional government that a huge backlog in school immunizations is spelling trouble for communicable diseases. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - April 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Toronto Source Type: news
