(Batya Swift Yasgur/ Psychiatry Advisor) — Grief is a normal, albeit sad and challenging, part of life. All human beings will experience loss of a loved one at some point and will experience grief. Although acute grief is usually self-limited, we never fully stop grieving. But individuals whose grief remains intense and …
(Leah Hendry/ CBC News) — Cancer specialists are bracing for a wave of patients suffering from more advanced disease due to delays in both screening and diagnostic testing during the pandemic.
About 60,000 Quebecers receive a cancer diagnosis in any given year.
But according to a report released …
(Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News) — Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine have designed an experimental drug that reversed key symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mice. The drug works by reinvigorating a cellular cleaning mechanism—chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA)—that gets rid of …
(Colleen Connors/ CBC News) — Stephanie Budgell does not want others to go through her experience of a Stage 4 colorectal cancer diagnosis, and is calling on health authorities to lower the age for screening.
“I want family doctors to see that it’s not an old man’s disease anymore,” said …
(Claudia Tanner/ iNews) — Oli, who did not want his surname used, says the past year during the global pandemic has really shaken his mental health.
“Before lockdown, if you’d have told me I would have most of a year off school I’d have thought that sounds amazing,” said the 17-year-old. “But it was the toughest time …
(Jill Barker/ Healthing) — While the survival rate of breast cancer has been on the rise since 1987, it’s still the most frequently diagnosed cancer among Canadian women and ranks second in cancer-related deaths of women.
But with 88 per cent of Canadian women now living at least five years after diagnosis, an increasing …
(Dave Yasvinsk/ Healthing) — As the end of the pandemic moves mercifully closer to reality, a new wave of anxiety is washing over shell-shocked survivors as they slowly step out of the safety of their extended solitude.
Experts say COVID-19 has taken a PTSD-type toll on society, the full extent of which may not be understood …
(Natalie Grover/ The Guardian) — A cohort of scientists from across the world believe that there is a growing body of evidence that Covid-19 can cause diabetes in some patients.
Prof Francesco Rubino, from King’s College London, is leading the call for a full investigation into a possible link between the two diseases. …
(Salim Yusuf/ Healthing) — A global study led by Hamilton scientists has found a link between eating processed meat and a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. The same study did not find the same link with unprocessed red meat or poultry.
The information comes from the diets and health outcomes of 134,297 people from 21 …