Health Insight
young adults
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Gut Health and Your Immune System
Canadian Digestive Health Foundation shares different ways to support gut health and defend your immune system against unwanted infections. When you get an infection or become sick, a healthy immune system helps you fight infections and heal wounds. Did you know having a healthy gut plays an important role in having a strong immune system?...
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How Lived Experience Underpins Hope + Me – MDAO’s Peer Support
Whether you’re going through mental health challenges or physical illness or injury, peer support can be a powerful adjunct to treatment. For people struggling with mental or physical illness, the ability to share their lived experience with someone who “gets it” can be a vital aid in healing and recovery. This is the core...
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Q&A with Dr. Vivien Brown
Mediaplanet sat down with Dr. Vivien Brown, a Toronto-based family physician, to learn more about way that Canadians can keep safe this flu season.
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Often Neglected, TB Is the World’s Biggest Infectious Disease Threat
Tuberculosis is still a health threat in Canada, especially among First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities.
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Find Walk-In Clinic Wait Times with Just a Click to Avoid Long Lines
Medimap aims to make health care more convenient and accessible, allowing patients to find nearby medical appointments quickly and easily. Almost five million Canadians aged 12 and older don’t have a primary care provider, according to the Canadian Medical Association. Because they must rely on walk-in medical clinics for their primary care needs, these clinics...
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On Your Mark, Get Set – Sleep!
A 2013 study in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine suggests improving sleep may encourage exercise participation.
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Why It Takes Community Immunity to Keep Everyone Safe
The safest way to achieve community immunity is through vaccination, which is the introduction of a weakened virus or bacteria into the body.
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mRNA Technology and Its Significant Potential to Improve Human Health
Moderna’s mission is to deliver on the promise of mRNA science to create a new generation of transformative vaccines and medicines.
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How Rebecca Van Fraassen Battles SMA Every Day to Live Life to the Fullest
When Rebecca Van Fraassen was two years old she was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a rare genetic disorder.
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Virtual Health Care Evolving to Ensure Patient Needs Are Priority
CAPA has been involved with the Canadian Rheumatology Association in the development of best-practice statements for virtual health care.