Most hockey helmets fail new safety evaluation

Most hockey helmets on the market weren't adequate to reduce the risk of head injuries when an experimental new measurement was used. When researchers at Virginia Tech's biomedical engineering and mechanics department bought and tested 32 helmets under...

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Nunavut leads Canada in childhood respiratory illness: pediatrician

Nunavut has a higher rate of young children being admitted to hospital for respiratory illness than the rest of Canada, says an Iqaluit pediatrician. Dr. Amber Miners, the pediatrician at the Qikiqtani General Hospital, says many cases...

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Child obesity stirred by 'perfect storm'

Children and teens who are overweight or obese can be identified by regularly monitoring their growth as a first step to help families, new Canadian guidelines for family doctors recommend. On Monday, the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care...

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Health Canada willing to ease fecal transplant rules for recurrent C. difficile

Health Canada has signalled it is willing to loosen the rules on the use of fecal transplants to treat persistent C. difficile infections. Up until now people who wanted to undergo a fecal transplant to try to cure a recurrent Clostridium difficile...

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Medical pot users could help researchers dispel haze around risks, benefits

The number of Canadians authorized to use medical marijuana has skyrocketed, even as medical experts warn that not enough is known about its risks and benefits. Now some are calling for researchers to tap into that growing pool of users to help answer...

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Pregnant in limbo: How vulnerable women pay for Canada's universal health care

Friday March 27, 2015 The numbers in Canada are hard to nail down, but advocates say there are at least 500,000 people living in Canada who don't have provincial health insurance. And tens of thousands of them are pregnant women. For many of...

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Website lets users put money down on their own weight loss

Losing weight is going competitive as a new website uses people's urge to make money as an incentive to shed pounds. DietBet is a New York City-based website that launched in 2013. It allows users to put money on the line that they can win back...

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4 ways for parents to prevent medication errors in children

Baby receives medicine from a syringe (Shutterstock) Parents should stick with more precise metric measuring devices such as syringes instead of teaspoons to give children the correct dose of medications, U.S. and Canadian experts say. Unintentional...

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Germanwings crash pressuring airlines to improve psychological screening of pilots

To the Dusseldorf crewmates who knew him, First Officer Andreas Lubitz gave no sign he was mentally unstable. They didn't know about the torn-up doctor's note found in his home, or another sick note excusing him from flying the very day he crashed Germanwings...

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Medical pot users could help researchers dispel haze around risks, benefits

The number of Canadians authorized to use medical marijuana has skyrocketed, even as medical experts warn that not enough is known about its risks and benefits. Now some are calling for researchers to tap into that growing pool of users to help answer...

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Ontario's children's advocate wants inquest into 12-year-old's suicide

Ontario's provincial advocate for children and youth wants the provincial coroner to launch an inquest into the death of a 12-year-old  boy from Cobourg who committed suicide in August after years of intervention from nine different children's mental...

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Pregnant in limbo: How vulnerable women pay for Canada's universal health care

Friday March 27, 2015 The numbers in Canada are hard to nail down, but advocates say there are at least 500,000 people living in Canada who don't have provincial health insurance. And tens of thousands of them are pregnant women. For many of...

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Germanwings crash pressuring airlines to improve psychological screening of pilots

To the Dusseldorf crewmates who knew him, First Officer Andreas Lubitz gave no sign he was mentally unstable. They didn't know about the torn-up doctor's note found in his home, or another sick note excusing him from flying the very day he crashed Germanwings...

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Ontario's children's advocate wants inquest into 12-year-old's suicide

Ontario's provincial advocate for children and youth wants the provincial coroner to launch an inquest into the death of a 12-year-old  boy from Cobourg who committed suicide in August after years of intervention from nine different children's mental...

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Superbug plan will reduce antibiotic resistance by 2020, Obama pledges

The White House aims to maintain the ability of current antibiotics to fight illnesses and develop new treatments. The White House on Friday announced a five-year plan to fight the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacteria amid fears that once-treatable...

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Pregnant in limbo: How vulnerable women pay for Canada's universal health care

Friday March 27, 2015 The numbers in Canada are hard to nail down, but advocates say there are at least 500,000 people living in Canada who don't have provincial health insurance. And tens of thousands of them are pregnant women. For many of...

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How my mother's life and death influenced my difficult BRCA surgery choice

When Kenzie Broddy tested positive for the BRCA 2 gene, she was told her risk of breast cancer was close to 70 per cent and chance of ovarian cancer was close to 20 per cent. (Courtesy Kenzie Broddy ) My mother battled breast and ovarian cancer for...

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Human embryo modifications must be halted, scientists urge

The emerging ability to modify human embryos in a way that gets passed on to future generations has raised alarm bells for scientists who've called for a moratorium. In the last two weeks, statements published in the journal Nature and the journal Science...

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Ebola's toll worst in babies, WHO study finds

Patrice Gordon, a B.C. nurse practitioner and Red Cross delegate, cared for a one-month-old baby with Ebola in Sierra Leone. Nearly every infected child under age 1 had a fever, researchers have found. (Red Cross/Canadian Press) Ebola has taken its...

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Ontario's children's advocate wants inquest into 12-year-old's suicide

Ontario's provincial advocate for children and youth wants the provincial coroner to launch an inquest into the death of a 12-year-old  boy from Cobourg who committed suicide in August after years of intervention from nine different children's mental...

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