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Ontario advocates say more home care is solution to hallway medicine

Home Care Ontario is advocating for the province to focus on home care as a solution to the issue of…

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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia emergency medicine pioneer and politician Ron Stewart dies at 82

The Nova Scotian who was the driving force behind the modernization of the province’s emergency health system has died of…

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Health

Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to U.S. biologists who discovered microRNA

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to Americans Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA,…

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Health

Canada’s 1st university degree in traditional Chinese medicine is coming, but some are wary

Caldwell Lever first tried traditional Chinese medicine years ago “out of desperation,” while struggling with a chronic illness. “My back was…

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Entertainment

‘It has been medicine for me’: New documentary reveals transformative power of northern wrestling tour

Director Stephan Peterson was working on a shoot in the northern Manitoba community of Wasagamack in the winter of 2016 when,…

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Nova Scotia

N.S. commits $50 million to ensure greater access to vet medicine program

A new funding agreement between the province and the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown, P.E.I., will create eight more seats for…

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Health

Chinese traditional medicine did nothing for my psoriasis. But it was my mother’s love language

This First Person article is written by Kerry Yang, a first-year medical student in Calgary. For more information about First…

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Health

Fewer medical school graduates choosing family medicine, Ontario doctors warn

An organization that represents doctors in Ontario is expressing concern about what it says is a declining number of medical…

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Health

Family medicine access in Canada drops since 2016, survey suggests

Family doctors are often the first place Canadians turn for medical care, but the proportion of adults with access to a…

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Nova Scotia

Cape Breton researchers work toward official recognition of Indigenous medicine

Researchers at Cape Breton University in Sydney, N.S., have set an ambitious goal of having Health Canada classify a traditional…

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