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Our latest stories on health, medicine, parenting, aging, pharmacology, new developments in medical technology, and the Canadian health care system

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Health

Design for Survival: How to Build a Better Trauma Bay

October 7, 2021October 7, 2021 - by Lauren McGill

In the high-pressure world of emergency medicine, a Toronto hospital finds new ways to save lives

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Health

All Booked Up: The Frustrations of Finding a Black Therapist

October 5, 2021April 22, 2022 - by Alicia Lue

Racism’s mental health fallout is staggering. But Black Canadians aren’t finding the care they need

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Health / September/October 2021

False Positive: Why Thousands of Patients May Not Have Asthma after All

July 27, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Renée Pellerin

A staggering number of people are being treated for a disease they don’t actually have

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Same Vaccine, Different Effects: Why Women Are Feeling Worse after the Jab

June 29, 2021October 18, 2021 - by Laura Hensley

For decades, researchers have been conducting flawed clinical trials. The COVID-19 vaccine was no different

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Health

How Big Tobacco Set the Stage for Fake News

May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 - by Daniel J. Robinson

A coordinated program of public deception that spanned four decades has become a template for modern disinformation

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Health / June 2021

What Happens to Our Brains When We Get Depressed?

May 19, 2021May 5, 2022 - by Simon Lewsen

The human brain, in all its complexity, is nearly impossible to model. One neuroscientist is trying anyway

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Health / June 2021

Even During a Pandemic, Immigrant Doctors Struggle to Find Work

May 5, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Jagdeesh Mann

Physicians trained abroad want to help with the fight against COVID-19. Why won’t Canada let them?

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Health

Open Wide and Say “Ahhhh!”: Why Our Dental System Still Bites

May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 - by Anne Thériault

I was broke, in agony, and out of options. Why more and more people are crowdfunding their dental bills

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Health

Should the Right to Die Extend to People with Mental Illness?

March 25, 2021April 20, 2021 - by Katie Engelhart

Adam Maier-Clayton wanted to change Canada’s laws, then die under them. Instead, he was left behind

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We’re Drinking More in the Pandemic—and It’s a Problem

January 25, 2021June 8, 2021 - by James Wilt

The alcohol industry is enjoying the profits, but public health is paying the price

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