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Lead author Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an epidemiologist at the BC Centre for Disease Control, said the findings can be generalized to the rest of Canada.

Alberta Health Services says in a news release that with respiratory viruses surging in the community, Alberta Children's Hospital is seeing “sustained high volumes of acutely ill patients.''

Eastern Health says patients affected by the cancellations will be contacted directly and appointments for surgery will be rescheduled for a later date.

Dr. Ali Mahmoudi, who had privileges at a Timmins, Ont., hospital, has been out on bail since July 2022. With 11 new charges against him, he faces a total of 21 charges.

In North America, it is thought to affect 10% to 23% of children up to 18 years of age and contribute to 3%–5% of visits to a pediatrician.

A recent study pinpointed certain communication pitfalls that result in patients interpreting their doctors' explanations as the exact opposite.

For more than a decade, some U.S. doctors have used stool samples from healthy donors to treat the condition.

How much do you know about this mysterious, and messy, emerging condition?