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Human Touch Has the Power to Comfort and Ease Isolation, Bringing Us Closer Together
NIVEA Launches “Care For Human Touch” Campaign to Inspire Togetherness and Help Combat Shadow Pandemic of Loneliness
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How These Fresh and Tasty Meal Kits Can Unlock Your Inner Chef
HelloFresh makes cooking delicious dinners from scratch more fun, convenient, and delicious than ever before with its various meal kits.
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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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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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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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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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Innovative Clinical Trial Brings Hope to Ovarian Cancer Patients
Ovarian cancer treatments need advancements with promising potential therapies, and clinical trials with immunological treatments are bringing hope. Ovarian cancer is one of the most serious of women’s cancers as most patients aren’t diagnosed until the disease has reached an advanced stage. Each year, roughly 3,000 Canadians are diagnosed with this life-threatening disease. Innovations in...
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How Servier Canada Is Pouring New Investment Into Cancer Care
As the world looks to the pharmaceutical industry for hope, Servier Canada is redefining itself as an ethical research leader with a broad mandate. When Chantal Boucher first left nursing for the pharmaceutical industry, her friends and colleagues questioned her decision of leaving her role as a front line worker, taking care of patients. But,...
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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...