by Natalie Harmsen | Apr 13, 2018
It was all thanks to the wine, says Denise Harrison, recalling the conversation that first brought her to Ottawa. The setting was a conference in Wales in 2010. Harrison, an Australian nurse-turned-researcher had just finished a postdoctoral fellowship at Toronto’s...
by Lia Pizarro | Mar 23, 2018
Meeting resistance: Canadian researchers battle the emergence of microbes that medicine can't kill By Clarissa Leir-Taha and Lia Pizarro [Photo © Lia Pizarro] Tucked away in a laboratory at Carleton University, biology professor Alex Wong, is seeking to answer an...
by Natalie Harmsen | Mar 20, 2018
By Natalie Harmsen and Megan Sibley CBI Home Health is one of many groups offering home care services in the Ottawa area. Miranda Ferrier, president of the Ontario Personal Support Workers Association, knows that the daily tasks her members are counted on to perform...
by Patrick Barrios | Mar 20, 2018
The illusion of control PTSD plagues more than a fifth of cancer patients within six months of diagnosis -- but is Ontario doing enough to help? By Patrick Barrios and Kat Topinka Sindy Hooper thought she had gallstones. She was experiencing a few vague symptoms,...
by Kristian Kelly | Mar 15, 2018
Featured image by Jordan Sanchez, via Unsplash. Medical tourism on the rise: why more Canadians are seeking treatments abroad The Fraser Institute released data showing more Canadians are leaving the country for medical care. But what does this mean for Canadians...
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