Canadians are increasingly turning to AI chatbots, like ChatGPT, for mental health support. But is this type of technology ...

Everyone agrees lack of money shouldn’t be a barrier to life-saving cancer care. But when cancer metastasizes to bank ...

Canadians face a steady stream of confident health claims; some partly right, others wrong and risky – and some potentially ...

I never had a Barbie with dark hair, brown eyes and an insulin pump when I was growing up. But today’s girls can. And that is ...

With floods in Pakistan, cyclones in Madagascar and droughts in Somalia, it is crucial that we learn to recognize the ...

A popular meme circulates the internet every time actor Hugh Jackman does another Marvel movie. It features a side-by-side comparison of Jackman the first time he played Wolverine in 2000’s X-Men and ...

“It’s not uncommon for (long-COVID) patients who are being gaslit to wonder whether they are crazy – they’ve never had anybody acknowledge that their symptoms are real,” says Ric Arseneau, a Coquitlam ...

The Book of Revelations in the New Testament lists the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as conquest, war, famine and death, while in the Old Testament’s Book of Ezekiel they are sword, famine, wild ...

Discussing a patient’s goals of care (the level of intervention that they would want should they encounter serious illness) is a challenging component of each hospital admission. When I met Elizabeth* ...

In May 2016, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published an article with the headline: Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the U.S. The article ...

At age 60, Kate Revington retired from her role as a university administrator so she and her partner could travel to visit their children overseas while still in good health. A year later, in 2019, ...

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