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From salt in food to transfer payments: Here's what Ottawa has power over when it comes to your health
The election April 28 presents an opportunity to have a say on certain aspects of health care the federal government controls, and to hold lawmakers — and would-be lawmakers — to account, health policy experts say.
Want to be sedated (for surgery)? Anesthesia assistants could help shorten wait times
One solution to a critical shortage of anesthesiologists in Canada could lie with increasing the ranks of anesthesia assistants, advocates say.
They were lost at sea for 52 hours. Here's what it was like
After their ship caught fire and sank off the coast of Newfoundland, seven fishermen were plucked from the north Atlantic ocean alive and well. Months later, they reveal what it was like being stuck in a tiny life-raft for 52 hours as their friends and family prepared for the worst back on land.
Gisèle Pelicot's daughter alleges her father, the convicted rapist, abused her, too
The explosive mass rape trial of Dominique Pelicot and 50 other French men may have come to an end Dec. 19, but for his daughter, Caroline Darian, the story was nowhere near over. She shares what the ordeal has been like for her mother and herself in a new memoir, I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again.
Old-school networking still key to landing a job, recruitment experts say
In a world where online job applications appear to be the norm, it still takes in-person networking to reveal a significant portion of the opportunities in the "hidden job market."
Palliative care doesn't mean a patient is at death's door. Here's why
Palliative care has an image problem. Dr. Samantha Winemaker, who has specialized in this field of medicine for 20 years, says most people incorrectly assume the practice is some kind of “Grim Reaper service.” But it's actually about living your best life, she says.
5 tips to help your child learn to love reading
There’s no one silver bullet that will guarantee a child becomes a skilled and avid reader. But here are some things you can try to encourage your kids to fall in love with the written word.
The anesthesiologist shortage is now a 'full-blown crisis.' Should Canada use nurse anesthetists?
The domino effect caused by a shortage of anesthesiologists in Canada could be improved if the country allowed specially trained nurses to provide anesthesia care, something they do in the United States, nursing advocates say.
Why it's time to bust 'the good mother myth'
In her new book, The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom, Nancy Reddy digs into the reasons moms often feel terrible about themselves when they don’t find every minute of mothering as joyful as books, blogs and Instagram suggest.
Would you pay to see a family doctor faster? Quebecers are, and critics are worried
Critics say the situation in Quebec should act as a warning of what could happen elsewhere in Canada if incremental steps in the direction of privatization are allowed to add up to giant leaps.