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Siblings experience higher anxiety, disrupted schooling and major changes to family life. Yet they are overlooked in discussions designed to support families.
For the first time, research has put a dollar figure on the medical and economic toll of these relatively common conditions in New Zealand.
The study shows rates for smoking, obesity and chronic conditions such as heart disease are comparatively higher in rural areas, leading to shorter life expectancy.
Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome can cause a rapid heart rate when standing, dizziness, breathlessness and fatigue.
Traumatic brain injury can have profound long-term impact, but care is often focused on immediate symptoms. Bill C-277 aims to develop a national strategy for treatment, rehabilitation and recovery.
‘Cardiac College for Women’ offers tailored cardiac rehabilitation education to bridge the gap in cardiovascular care and empower women to manage their heart health effectively.
Office workers are sedentary for hours at a time. Our research looked at what they should do to stay healthy.
Insomnia is torture, literally, and getting enough sleep a modern obsession. Here’s why.
COVID-19 remains a global public health threat despite its current non-pandemic status.
Publicly funded primary and home care should be accessible to all older adults, regardless of where they live.
Increasing awareness of migraine symptoms is critical for those living with undiagnosed migraine, since getting a diagnosis is the first step to receiving appropriate and effective care.
Native Americans sent to government-funded schools now experience significantly higher rates of mental and physical health problems than those who did not.
Lifestyle factors like physical activity, diet and sleep can lower the ‘biological age’ of your cells and tissues and reduce age-related physical decline.
People with long COVID report that their symptoms are dismissed or not treated seriously by health-care providers. This medical gaslighting not only prevents treatment but can cause stigma and shame.
Black women are half as likely to be diagnosed with endometriosis compared to white women.
Clinics without pharmacist assistants were more likely to have erratic medicine supply management practices.
Rapid increases in food prices due to inflation mean many Canadians may be making different food choices. Here are the possible short- and long-term effects of that, and some ways to save money.
Aging out of the supportive world of pediatric care at a vulnerable time in life can pose risks to teens with chronic health conditions as they enter the resource-strapped adult care system.
Sildenafil — better known as Viagra — may be helpful in treating lung diseases like pulmonary arterial hypertension and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, for which there are few effective treatments.
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