With around 1 in 50 people diagnosed with cancer each year, many will face the difficult task of sharing news of their diagnosis with children. Here’s what to consider.
Taking precautions against outdoor pathogens can keep you from getting sidelined over the summer.
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Common summer activities can expose you to a host of infectious diseases. But there are simple steps you can take to protect yourself from pathogens ranging from E. coli to T. gondii.
About half of Canadians will provide unpaid care to a loved one over the course of their lifetime.
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Canada is one of the few high-income countries that doesn’t have a national caregiver strategy. The emotional, physical and economic costs of caregiving need to be recognized and supported.
Jessica Kirkness’s grandparents, Jessica Kirkness, Sam Drummond.
Jessica Kirkman introduces readers to her Deaf grandparents’ experience – and to Deaf culture – in her memoir. And Sam Drummond recalls growing up with pseudoachondroplasia (a form of dwarfism) in his.
Even for an experienced health-care professional, estimating the life expectancy of a patient with a serious illness is challenging.
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Lysanne Lessard, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Amy T. Hsu, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa; Peter Tanuseputro, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa e Sampath Bemgal, University of New Brunswick
An accurate prediction of survival can enable earlier conversations about preferences and wishes at the end of life, and earlier introduction of palliative care.
As little as 25 minutes of walking a day had benefits.
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Bill C-7 has created ethical tensions between MAID providers and palliative care, between transparency and patient privacy, and between offering a dignified death rather than a dignified life.
Using your phone when you’re on the toilet is a horrid habit.
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One of the first contemporary personal narratives about living with HIV in the 21st century, Fever urgently interrogates the social meanings of HIV, and how they’ve evolved in the era of treatment.
Palliative care tries to support a patient’s quality of life.
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Our measures to stay safe during the pandemic may have made us more susceptible to other respiratory illnesses.
People suffering from long-term effects of COVID-19 face uncertainty about the nature of their symptoms and how long they might last.
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Palliative care is about living well and meeting patients’ goals, but referral can be more complex than access to medical assistance in dying (MAID). Palliative care should be as accessible as MAID.
Designed by psychologists, the free and anonymous web-based app can help you remember who you came in contact with.
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With new US COVID-19 cases topping 200,000 a day, contact tracers are overwhelmed. Here’s how infected people can start tracing and notifying contacts themselves.
The pandemic has revealed the complexity of new and ongoing health crises. Post-secondary institutions need to respond to this complexity with an interdisciplinary approach to teaching health issues.
Matfre Ermengaud’s ‘Temptation by Lechery’ from a 14th-century manuscript.
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Stories featuring demons and sex date back to early Judaism and Christianity. They inspired the witch craze and continue to be believed by many conservative Christians in America.
A volunteer sets up beds in what would have been a field hospital in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York.
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Images of religious buildings being used to treat the sick shouldn’t come as surprise. The practice has a long tradition, dating back to the Middle Ages.
Lucretius Carus.
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A first-century B.C. Roman poet and philosopher, Lucretius was worried that our fear of death could lead to irrational beliefs and actions that could harm society.
Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney