Health Insight
Managing Illnesses
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Painful — This Invisible Symptom Is Often Worse
Eileen Davidson, known as Chronic Eileen, lives with rheumatoid arthritis and common comorbidities that come with the painful autoimmune disease. While pain is often debilitating, fatigue can often take the spotlight as the most complicated symptom to deal with on a daily basis. Chronic fatigue is a whole-body feeling that impairs your ability to function...
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Learn How Physiotherapy Can Help With Inflammation
Inflammation is how the body’s immune system responds to harmful stimuli. These stimuli can range from pathogens, damaged cells, toxic compounds, or foreign substances, and inflammation acts to remove the injurious stimuli and initiate the healing process. Inflammation can occur at any site in the body, depending on the injury/surgery/trigger. Inflammation is a defence mechanism...
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Q&A with Millicent Simmonds: Breaking Barriers as a Deaf Actress
Deaf actress Millicent Simmonds discusses her acting career, why representation matters, facing barriers in life, and more.
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Why Live with Hearing Loss When Hearing Aids Can Be Life-Changing
Millions of Canadians live with uncorrected hearing loss because they don’t want to wear hearing aids. But the hearing aids of today are nothing like they used to be.
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Canadians Who Are Deafblind Shouldn’t Have to Move to Access Services
Canadians with sight loss rely on their hearing. Canadians with hearing loss rely on their sight. And Deafblind Canadians rely on critical support services that are not uniformly available across Canada.
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How One Organization Enriches the Lives of Those with Hearing Loss
Andrea Pringle and Tracey Veldhuis from DeafBlind Ontario Services talk about how they help those who are Deaf or hard of hearing.
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Hearing Loss Must Be Confronted at All Ages of Life — Here’s Why
Visit Canadian Academy of Audiology to learn more about accessibility in virtual meetings and other solutions for people with hearing loss.
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AMI Debuts Fashion Dis, a Fashion TV Show for All Abilities
Despite promising steps taken to include members of the disability community in all facets of society, fashion continues to be largely inaccessible. AMI’s Fashion Dis aims to change that.
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Living with Hearing Loss? CHHA Is Here to Support You
The Canadian Hard of Hearing Association (CHHA) represents nearly 4-million Canadians living with hearing loss and their families.
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Adult SMA Patients Left in the Lurch with Delayed Treatment Access
Mental health concerns are rampant more than ever among adult patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). Here’s how Cure SMA Canada is advocating for adult patients with the progressive disease.