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A new review provides guidance for physicians to discuss fertility preservation with young women diagnosed with breast cancer who may want to have (more) children. The review, which includes lists of resources for patients and health care professionals, is published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

Better care is on the way for children across the province with extraordinary health needs, requiring complex care, as government moves forward with a first-of-its-kind children’s complex care transition facility in B.C. — a leading edge in Canada — with the approval of a concept plan.

A human rights adjudicator has ruled that the Manitoba government discriminated against a disabled Indigenous boy by not providing adequate health care. The province has been ordered to pay the boy and his mother $42,500. The case centres on Alfred (Dewey) Pruden, who was 16 years old when his human rights complaint was heard last year.

Emerging evidence that diet may influence the incidence and severity of adult acne vulgaris

Video shows the paramedics leading a crawling man to an elevator after suggesting to a support worker that the patient could walk under his own power