In 2012, Savita Halappanavar sought treatment at a hospital in Galway, Ireland; she was 17 weeks pregnant, in pain and miscarrying. Her repeated requests for an abortion were ignored because of the presence of a fetal heartbeat, according to her husband. She died of septicemia — or blood poisoning by bacteria — 2½ days later. Halappanavar’s death is viewed as […]
The first annual International Black Health Conference is coming to Halifax in October. The three-day conference will give health professionals, educators, policymakers and community members from across Canada and the United States the chance to talk about the best ways to address and improve health disparities in Black communities. “We want to look at the disproportionate structural inequalities that impact […]
The pressure on the province’s college of physicians to make it easier to access the abortion pill is ramping up, as hundreds of doctors have signed an open letter calling for the removal of several restrictions that are in place in Quebec, but not in the rest of Canada. The abortion pill has been available and free in Quebec since […]
Canada is about to toss more than half of its doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine because it couldn’t find any takers for it, either in or outside of Canada. A statement from Health Canada says 13.6 million doses of the vaccine expired in the spring and will be thrown out. A year ago, Canada said it would donate almost […]
Mark Reusser, vice-president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and the Waterloo Federation of Agriculture, fears there may be a food shortage next year if farmers can’t get fertilizer. Global tariffs have bumped up the price of fertilizer in Canada, making it harder for farmers to get their hands on it and affecting their ability to grow their crops and […]
Eyaletteki yaban hayatı uzmanları, M.Ö. BC Orman Bakanlığı’nda yaban hayatı veterineri olan Caeley Thacker, mevcut kel kartal popülasyonunu ve yuvalarını yakından izlemek için Çevre ve İklim Değişikliği Kanada ve Tarım Bakanlığı ile kurumlar arası bir çaba sarf edildiğini söylüyor. Thacker, CBC’lerde “İzledikleri 22 aktif yuvaları var ve şu anda sadece beş tanesi hala aktif” dedi. Erken Baskı Pazartesi gününde. “Geçen […]
Bulaşıcı hastalıklar uzmanı Dr. Zain Çağla, bir COVID-19 aşısının üç dozunun birkaç ay sonra ne kadar koruma sağladığı ve dördüncü aşı dozlarının durumu hakkındaki soruları yanıtlıyor.
Nesli tükenmekte olan büyük beyaz köpekbalığının Kanada sularındaki dağılımına ilişkin yeni bir araştırma, bir su altı tespit ağının, nüfusun sabit kaldığını, ancak artmadığını öne sürüyor. Bu, okyanusun en büyük yırtıcılarının bölgede giderek daha fazla dolaştığı endişelerine ters düşüyor – geçen Ağustos ayında Nova Scotia’nın Cape Breton Adası açıklarında bir kadına yönelik şüpheli bir saldırı ve aynı ay bir fok karkasını […]
A pair of abortion doulas in southwestern Ontario say Canadians shouldn’t take access to safe, legal abortions for granted because there are still barriers to care that are difficult to overcome, including time off work, a lack of financial resources and the distance from urban -centered clinics. Christal Malone of London and Jennifer Surerus of St. Thomas help make access […]
If you’re the kind of person who tracks your period, fitness, sleep or other health metrics with an app, privacy experts have a warning for you: your data could be a gold mine for advertisers, hackers, or law enforcement. There have been calls on social media for American women to delete period tracking apps from their phones since the US […]
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