What if, before you were released from the hospital, on top of medical advice, someone instructed you to sign up for, say, a Spanish class as part of your recovery plan? Or, instead, to spend a few hours a week volunteering at the local dog rescue? Thanks to “social prescribing” programs, which are drawing attention […]
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Editor’s noteAs we enter 2023, we’re running a series of stories in Star Culture on diet and nutrition, navigating eating healthier amid rising food costs and advice on making sustainable choices. Here’s a resolution that’s actually worth keeping: This year, eat more nutritious food, spend less on groceries and help fight climate change. It doesn’t […]
Forty-seven. That’s how many days of child care Kathryn Anne Edwards’ 3-year-old son has missed in the past year. RSV, COVID-19 and two bouts of the dreaded preschool scourge of hand, foot and mouth disease struck one after another. The illnesses were so disruptive that the labor economist quit her full-time job at the Rand […]
Editor’s note: As we enter 2023, we’re running a series of stories in Star Culture on diet and nutrition, navigating eating healthier amid rising food costs and advice on making sustainable choices. Can we eat our way out of the “winter blues?” Although a change in diet isn’t going to totally alleviate the symptoms many […]
TORONTO – Ontarians with 13 common ailments can skip the doctor’s office and head straight to the pharmacist to get a prescription as of today. The provincial government says pharmacists now have the power to prescribe treatments for conditions that include pink eye, hemorrhoids and urinary tract infections. The province says residents need only bring […]
Editor’s note: As we enter 2023, we’re running a series of stories in Star Culture on diet and nutrition, navigating eating healthier amid rising food costs and advice on making sustainable choices. You don’t have to be an NFL fan to know that Tom Brady is good at his job. The only question up for […]
LONDON (AP) — A top official at the World Health Organization said the U.N. agency was “pleased” to see China loosening some of its coronavirus restrictions, saying “it’s really important that governments listen to their people when the people are in pain.” At a press briefing on Friday, WHO emergencies director Dr. Michael Ryan said […]
Pharmacists are asking parents not to stockpile the limited supply of children’s pain and fever medications that arrived on store shelves in Canada over the last week. The federal government imported one million units of children’s acetaminophen — commonly known as Tylenol — as emergency relief amid a shortage coupled with soaring rates of influenza […]
Not so long ago, if you wanted to explore the healing powers of ayahuasca, a psychedelic substance used in traditional medicine by Indigenous people in several South American countries, you pretty much had to travel to the Amazon rainforest. Now, for the first time ever, Filament Health, a Canadian psychedelic drug company, has created medical […]
A large study that chronicles the trajectory of COVID-19 over the first 2-1/2 years of the pandemic suggests most British Columbia children and adults younger than age 60 developed antibodies to slash their risk of severe illness — either through vaccination, infection or both. Lead author Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an epidemiologist at the BC Centre […]