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- 12/9/2021
'I stopped eating': Rise in eating disorders seen among Ontario youth during pandemic
In the last year, Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children said it has seen a 35% annual increase in admissions to its eating disorder program, while its inpatient psychiatry and adolescent medicine unit has been consistently at or over capacity. - 12/9/2021
Nevada jury: Health insurers owe ER doctors $60M in damages
One of the largest U.S. health insurance companies and its branches in Nevada were found liable Tuesday for $60 million in punitive damages for underpaying out-of-network emergency medical providers. - 12/9/2021
‘It’s stressful to kill somebody’: the healthcare workers who support assisted dying
Interviews with medical practitioners often indicate an uneasy relationship for many healthcare workers with this practice. - 12/9/2021
Ontario med students teaching hairstylists and barbers to find skin cancer
Shave and a haircut and a . . . cancer warning? - 12/8/2021
Saskatchewan privatizing some surgeries to reduce growing backlog from COVID-19
Health Minister Paul Merriman says the goal is to eliminate the backlog by achieving a three-month wait time by 2030. - 12/8/2021
Some N.B. patients learning their unvaccinated doctors have been suspended
Duncan Milne is diabetic and has borderline kidney function but says he only found out his doctor was suspended when the hospital in Fredericton called to say his scheduled blood tests had been cancelled. - 12/8/2021
Quebec committee says Alzheimer's patients should get access to doctor assisted death
The current law, adopted in 2014, set out strict criteria that include informed consent of a patient until their death, meaning people who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and could no longer provide informed consent do not have access. - 12/8/2021
Ontario health issue new COVID-19 recommendations as holiday plans clash with rising cases
The health units recommended that everyone should limit indoor social gatherings in private dwellings to no more than 10 people, and all attendees aged 12 and older should be vaccinated. - 12/8/2021
Black women 3.5 times more likely than white to develop breast-cancer related lymphedema
Risks from treatments differ between racial backgrounds, according to findings presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.