(Dennis Thompson/ HealthDay News) — Imagine a single pill loaded with a battery of heart medications that you take once a day to cut your chances of heart attack, stroke and heart failure.
A new clinical trial has turned that idea into reality.
The “polypill” reduced the risk of life-threatening heart health problems by …
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(CTV Montreal) — Patients across Quebec experienced longer wait times in emergency rooms in from 2018 to 2019 according to an analysis by the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI).
“In Quebec, we have the longest waiting time in the industrialized world—and the rest of Canada is not doing that great either,” said MEI …
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(CBC News) — The number of obese Quebecers has doubled over the last three decades, according to a new study from Quebec’s national public health institute.
More than 40 per cent of adult Quebecers are considered to be obese: 50 per cent of women, and one in three men, the study found.
“The waistline … was monitored in …
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