Stretching is great for your health. Here's how to do more of it
Evidence shows there are health benefits to stretching as its own physical activity — not just before or after a workout. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 25, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Radio/White Coat/ Black Art Source Type: news

Nursing shortage, overcrowded homes in Pimicikamak Cree Nation make tuberculosis cases difficult to monitor
The chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation says overcrowding and poor access to health-care services in his community can make tuberculosis cases harder to monitor and contain. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Manitoba Source Type: news

Physicians sound alarm over unfilled Ontario residency spots
Physicians are sounding the alarm after more than 100 spaces reserved for training new family doctors in Ontario went unfilled this year. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Toronto Source Type: news

With inconsistent support for brain injuries in Canada, peer groups are a lifeline
Brain injuries are misunderstood and isolating. They can have little to no external signs but completely upend someone’s inner workings and daily life. In the absence of robust, consistent supports across Canada, survivors turn to one another. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Saskatchewan Source Type: news

What to know about the measles vaccine — from who should get one, to how long immunity lasts
As measles cases keep rising at home and abroad, Canadian health officials are on high alert. There are now warnings about global travel and calls for people to ensure their families are up-to-date on the measles vaccine. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 23, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news

What we know about Princess Catherine's cancer diagnosis
Catherine, the Princess of Wales, has revealed that she is receiving a preventative course of chemotherapy for an unspecified type of cancer. Here is what we know about the treatment and her diagnosis. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news

Scientists try to unravel the case of 1,300 mysteriously preserved human brains
An undertaker-turned-scientist at Oxford University is trying to figure out why some human brains remain remarkably well-preserved after death, sometimes for thousands of years, even when all other soft tissue has long decayed.  (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Radio/As It Happens Source Type: news

Ottawa spending nearly $3M in Cat Lake First Nation for temporary nursing station after fire
Things are looking up for Cat Lake First Nation after the remote Ojibway community recently lost its nursing station in a fire and experienced a weeks-long boil-water advisory. Here's what's happening in the northwestern Ontario community and what the federal government says it's doing to help. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Thunder Bay Source Type: news

Second Alberta family comes forward after patient discharged from hospital to hotel
Alberta politicians have been peppered with questions since CBC News broke the story of how a hospital patient expecting to be moved to a care home was instead taken to a hotel. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Edmonton Source Type: news

Alberta to find new homes for 39 people after covering non-profit's $25K unpaid hotel bill
Premier Danielle Smith says a non-profit that placed Albertans in hotel rooms after they were discharged from hospital put them in danger of eviction with a $25,000 unpaid hotel bill, and the government had to step in to pay. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Edmonton Source Type: news

Alberta to rehome 39 people after covering $25K unpaid hotel bill for non-profit housing patients
Premier Danielle Smith says a non-profit that placed Albertans in hotel rooms after they were discharged from hospital put them in danger of eviction with a $25,000 unpaid hotel bill, and the government had to step in to pay. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Edmonton Source Type: news

Family struggles to move mother across country to B.C. care home
The daughters of an assisted care patient in P.E.I. are running into roadblocks as they try to transfer their mother into B.C. subsidized care. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news

Ontario extends program that helps rural and northern hospitals avoid ER closures
Ontario is extending a program that helps rural and northern hospitals avoid temporary ER closures for another six months. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Sudbury Source Type: news

Long-term care homes and agency didn't properly check fake nurse's credentials, Ontario documents show
Three long-term care homes that hired a fake nurse didn't properly check her credentials, according to Ontario inspection reports. Two of the homes are in Hamilton and the third is in Toronto. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Hamilton Source Type: news

Anti-Black racism addressed in new course for health-care providers
A family doctor who helped create an anti-Black racism course for health professionals says she hopes participants will "unlearn" long-standing discriminatory practices. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 21, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news