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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 7h

Physicians nationwide are burnt out https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/10/14/physicians-nationwide-are-burnt-out-canadian-medical-association/

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 7h

How the Ostrich Farm Cull Has Unleashed Threats of Violence https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/10/14/strich-Farm-Cull-Threats-Violence/

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 7h

Mother urges parents to get RSV antibody for newborns after son's harrowing experience https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/rsv-can-be-serious-in-infants-9.6937178

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Dr. Darine El-Chaâr says the availability of both the vaccine and the antibody meant there were fewer babies with RSV admitted to hospital last year.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 7h

Ontario still hasn't acted on advice to toughen rules around lead in drinking water https://nationalpost.com/news/lead-water

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Lead is a neurotoxin that reaches drinking water through corrosion in pipes and plumbing fixtures. No level is considered safe.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 7h

B.C. set to open Western Canada's first new medical school in decades https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/b-c-set-to-open-western-canadas-first-new-medical-school-in-decades/article_df4b952f-46f5-543c-bb4e-02810f1ca6f5.html

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Students watch as B.C. Premier David Eby speaks during a news conference at Clayton Heights Secondary School, in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 9h

'As new infections outpace new drugs, are we sleepwalking into a global health disaster?' https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/14/tipping-point-drug-resistant-bacteria-health-antimicrobial-resistance-report

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If the right antibiotics aren't developed or made available to treat infections, bacteria can spread and develop resistance.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 9h

Trump's immigration crackdown sparks fear in exam rooms and emergency departments https://www.axios.com/2025/10/14/trump-immigration-policy-hospitals-emergency

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 9h

Federal agency failed to track 'forever chemicals' in Newfoundland town's water, residents say https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-torbay-water-contamination-forever-chemicals-newfoundland/

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Dr. Karl Jobst at a PFAS water-testing site in South Pond. Torbay, Newf. PFAS have been linked to cancer, developmental delays and immune disorders.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 15h

Mother urges parents to get RSV antibody for newborns after son's harrowing experience #Ottawa

50% of babies with RSV are hospitalized

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mother urges parents to get RSV antibody for newborns after son's harrowing experience | CBC News

A mother is sharing the devastation she felt watching her newborn son develop respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and urging Ontario parents to get a newly available preventative treatment for their bab...

www.cbc.ca

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 11h

It probably goes without saying, but if you worked in CDC HR, I'd LOVE to hear from you

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 22h

Thanks for the link. Watching the standard-development with interest. It's looking good

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 23h

Yep. Exactly. A large language model (LLM), is what people chat with when they "talk to AI" (nowadays often more than one LLM under the hood).

"AI," in this context, is actually a marketing term. It's the Kleenex of LLMs, truly.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

AI could make it harder to establish blame for medical failings www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Where an AI system is used, patients could face difficulties showing fault in the event of a negative outcome, experts say.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Recent health spending comes from Trudeau era, but fits with current Liberal focus on health prevention, lowering costs, consultants say www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1... @tessiesanci.bsky.social @hilltimes.com

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Health Minister Marjorie Michel, pictured at a press conference in Ottawa on Oct. 2, has thus far made announcements based on funding set aside by the previous Liberal government. Stakeholders will look to this fall’s budget and this week’s health ministers’ meeting to have a deeper understanding of her priorities.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Too many trauma patients die before they reach the hospital. These doctors have an idea that would ‘shake up the system’ www.thestar.com/news/gta/too...

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Too many trauma patients die before they reach the hospital. These Toronto doctors have an idea that would ‘shake up the system’

For a few critically injured patients, the urgent interventions those patients need can only be done at a trauma centre. Can a new model help?

www.thestar.com

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Ontario girl with leukemia faces deportation to Nigeria www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... @kamilkaramali.bsky.social

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A Nigerian family facing deportation is speaking out. Kamil Karamali shares their story.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

The Rise of Health Misinformation www.schulich.uwo.ca/rapport/2025...

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Antibiotic-resistant superbugs rising: World Health Organization https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/spread-of-drug-resistant-superbugs-surging-who-warns/

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Medical tools are pictured in an exam room at a health clinic in Calgary, Friday, July 14, 2023.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Scientists finally unveil what's behind long COVID brain fog https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/scientists-think-they-ve-finally-cracked-the-mystery-of-long-covid-brain-fog/article_55bf054b-ab2b-4403-8850-f2accf813f2e.html

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Japanese scientists may have uncovered the cause of long COVID-related brain fog in a new study. Dreamstime

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Following healthy food guidelines in Canada comes at a high cost, study finds https://www.orilliamatters.com/national-news/following-healthy-food-guidelines-in-canada-comes-at-a-high-cost-study-finds-11340191

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Signs advertise a price drop on bread at a No Frills Grocery store, in Toronto, on Thursday, May 30, 2024.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Masking requirements back on at Health P.E.I. facilities https://www.saltwire.com/prince-edward-island/masking-requirements-back-on-at-health-p-e-i-facilities

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Trump CDC purge sees 600 workers fired despite reversals https://www.axios.com/2025/10/13/trump-kennedy-cdc-firings-rehirings

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Employees and supporters of the CDC honor former officials in August.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

Around 30 Atikamekw women come forward in class action alleging forced sterilizations www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @francamignacca.bsky.social

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Around 30 women have come forward in a class-action lawsuit against the CISSS de Lanaudière and three doctors.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of COVID-19 - Nature Medicine

Individuals with COVID-19 are at increased long-term risk for a wide range of cardiovascular disorders, even for individuals who were not hospitalized during the acute phase of the infection.

www.nature.com

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

Heart disease back as top global killer as study highlights 'toll' of chronic conditions, rising youth deaths www.cbc.ca/news/health/... (welcome back, @laurenpelley.bsky.social 👋!)

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Calgary resident Heather Evans knows the grim toll of heart disease. She's experiencing heart failure at the age of 61, and has already lost five siblings. New research shows heart disease is the top global killer, alongside other chronic conditions that researchers say deserve renewed attention.

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