Health Insight
Managing Illnesses
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How Biosimilars Are Transforming Arthritis Care
There are more than 300,000 Canadians living with rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disease that causes joint pain and damage throughout the body. Without the right treatment, chronic pain and disability are the unfortunate consequences. Cheryl Koehn knows chronic pain and disability too well. Once a high-performance athlete, she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in her...
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Scleroderma Can Lead to Serious Lung Disease
Advances in medical treatments provide hope for patients with scarring of the lungs caused by scleroderma. While the cause of scleroderma is unknown, it’s believed that a genetic predisposition combined with a stressful event, such as an infection, triggers your immune system to attack itself, says Dr. Shane Shapera, Program Director of the Interstitial Lung...
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Can Kids With Arthritis Live Pain Free?
Juvenile arthritis is the most common cause of chronic disability in Canadian children, but Cassie and Friends is optimistic about a pain free future for kids with rheumatic disease. Every year, one in 1,000 children in Canada will be diagnosed with juvenile arthritis (JA) and up to 60 percent of them, like my daughter, Cassie,...
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Living with Arthritis: It Can Happen to Anyone
Canadian Olympic snowboarder and two-time world champion Spencer O’Brien on her experience as a world class athlete living with Rheumatoid Arthritis. At the age of 25, in her best shape ever, Canadian Olympic snowboarder and two-time world champion Spencer O’Brien was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Months before the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, O’Brien feared...
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Early Lupus Detection and Support are Vital for Patients
Through their support, education, awareness and advocacy initiatives, Lupus Ontario is striving to one day create a Life Without Lupus. Lupus is a life-changing and sometimes fatal disease which often strikes young adults in the prime of their lives. Through our research campaigns and major fundraising events like the Walk for Lupus Ontario, we at...
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5 Tips for Dealing with Flares
Arthritis flares can be incredibly debilitating. Learn how to manage the pain and disability of a flare from Arthritis Research Canada. Imagine feeling good one day and waking up in debilitating pain the next. People with inflammatory arthritis know this experience well: the onset of a flare. It’s a period of increased disease activity where...
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Safe, Deep and Effective Relief for your Chronic Pain
Daily activities that come easily to many Canadians may be extremely difficult for others due to persistent pain. Deep Relief provides chronic pain sufferers with fast, long-lasting pain relief. Daily activities that many Canadians take for granted may be significantly limited for others by something unseen to the naked eye: persistent pain. One in five...
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A Long-Lasting Solution for Pain Relief is Here
Those who suffer from acute and chronic pain have found relief with topical treatment by Kalaya. Just about everyone has experienced bodily pain in one form or another. Whether it’s mild back pain or severe arthritis, pain is our body’s way of telling us that something’s wrong. It can take many forms — acute pain...
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New Vaccine Helps Boost Immunity in Cancer Patients
A Canadian team is researching how we can strengthen the immune system of cancer patients to better protect them against COVID-19. For people living with cancer, COVID-19 has serious implications. Cancer patients’ immune systems are compromised, making them more vulnerable if they’re infected with the virus. It’s also difficult for those undergoing cancer treatment to...
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A Phase III Clinical Trial (FLORA-5) for Advanced Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian cancer is categorized as advanced once the cancer has spread away from its site of origin in the pelvis. OncoQuest is grateful to all the listed investigators in Canada for participating in FLORA-5, which begins enrolling on May 1, 2021. Many clinical trials are currently taking place to look at new ways to prevent,...