Healthcare

Canadian Cardiovascular Society issues an update on assessing patients’ fitness to drive and when it’s safe to resume driving after cardiac interventions or acute cardiac illnesses.

Lisa Pisano’s combination of heart and kidney failure left her too sick to qualify for a traditional transplant, and out of options.

Ottawa patient with severe joint infection showing improvement from experimental phage therapy.

Erin Callahan has lived with type 1 diabetes for 37 years. She uses insulin daily. After starting a new job, she was shocked to learn that her new drug plan would not cover her insulin. Why?

Teacher, bookkeeper, mail carrier, doctor? Study suggests job type is associated with risk of cognitive decline after age 70.

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‘I want people to realize that asthma can go from zero to 100 in the blink of an eye.’