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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 8h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 18h

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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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 19h

Medical advice from LLMs can be more persuasive than real doctors, even when it's wrong https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/why-empathetic-ai-can-be-too-persuasive-for-canadians-to-resist/

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Vered Shwartz says the human-like tone of AI-generated responses paired with their confident presentation can easily convince users that the information is trustworthy, even when it's inaccurate.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 19h

Trump gets a COVID shot as access to them tightens for most Americans https://ca.news.yahoo.com/white-house-trump-gets-covid-024131079.html

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies about the health care agenda for the Trump administration in front of the Senate Committee on Finance in Washington, D.C., on September 4, 2025.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 19h

Senator says she was never told her 2005 surgery would leave her sterile https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/senator-says-she-was-never-told-her-2005-surgery-would-leave-her-sterile/article_ccb6356b-6b92-5517-8144-fcb30c7c3062.html

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 1d

Ontario limiting first-round applications for residency positions from international medical graduates to only those who completed at least two years of high school in the province, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #MedEd #IMGs

Ontario will apply new limits on residency applications from international medical graduates

Graduates who did not attend an Ontario high school must wait until the second round of applications

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

‘Discriminatory and devastating’: New Ontario rule for medical residency that would exclude most immigrant physicians sparks outrage www.thestar.com/news/ontario...

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"We came as immigrants and didn't go to high school here," said Hormoz Nassiri Kigloo, 38, who has passed the qualifying exams for a shot at a medical residency spot in Ontario. "What's the relevance between where you go to high school and your qualifications for residency? This is blatant discrimination." Hormoz Nassiri Kigloo

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Trump admin uses government shutdown to fire more federal health workers https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/more-federal-health-employees-axed-amid-shutdown-linked-terminations/

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A sign marks the entrance to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquarters building on October 7, 2024, in Washington, DC.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Why funding cuts to B.C. care homes could lead to bankruptcies and longer ER waits https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/why-funding-cuts-to-bc-care-homes-could-lead-to-bankruptcies-and-longer-er-waits/

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Thousands of seniors are facing an uncertain future, with the B.C. government ending funding to some long-term care facilities.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Why 'organ chips' could transform cancer treatment and drug testing https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cancer-organ-chip-9.6932124

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In this 2020 photo, a scientist prepares experiments to use living human tissue for non-animal testing of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Now researchers are using a patient's own cells to grow proxy organs — known as organ chips — to test possible treatments outside the human body.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Asthma inhalers a significant contributor to pollution: research https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/climate-pollution-from-inhalers-has-the-impact-of-half-a-million-cars-per-year-study-finds/

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Dr. William Feldman discusses the new study which finds that inhalers approved for asthma may be one of the top contributors to climate pollution.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Will AI make or break Canada? Innovators, researchers call for more guardrails https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ai-canada-regulations-innovators-researchers-9.6935017

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The display booth for the Mila, Quebec's artificial intelligence institute, is seen at an AI conference in Montreal in September.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Hallway medicine 'normalized': Sask. nurses https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/sask-patients-treated-in-hallways-has-become-normalized-nurses-union/

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Allison Bamford takes a closer look at the increase of 'hallway medical care' becoming normalized amidst overcrowding, leaving families frustrated.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

Masks will be required in all Health P.E.I. facilities starting Oct. 14 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-mask-mandate-health-facilites-9.6934985

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Health P.E.I. is reinstating a mandatory masking policy in all of its facilities in response to the growing presence of respiratory illnesses on the Island.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

Support for mandatory vaccinations is growing in Canada, but still lower than pre-pandemic https://globalnews.ca/news/11472486/growing-support-mandatory-vaccinations-canada-poll/

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A new poll has found increasing support for mandatory vaccinations for children. But as Kylie Stanton reports, the level of support is still below pre-pandemic levels.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

Facing record debt levels, Ontario hospitals told to balance budgets and find efficiencies https://ottawacitizen.com/news/ontario-hospitals-budgets-efficiencies

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More than half of the hospitals across the eastern region of Ontario are projecting deficits this year, documents show. The overall Ontario hospital deficit for 2024-25 was $360 million.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

Senate debates bill to add warning labels to alcohol packaging https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/senate-alcohol-warning-9.6933765

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A Senate bill proposes putting warnings on alcohol packaging, similar to what is already on packs of cigarettes.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

Dismissed and depressed: Survey digs into women's health in the Maritimes https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/dismissed-and-depressed-survey-digs-into-womens-health-in-the-maritimes-9.6933240

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Jennifer Gillivan is the president and CEO of the IWK Foundation.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

Hacked CRA accounts, crime sprees as B.C. health agency denied massive data breach for a decade https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/interior-health-data-breach-investigation-9.6931436

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Registered nurse Ashley Stone has worked in health care in B.C.'s Interior for 16 years, and for the last 11 she's also been battling repeated cases of her identity being stolen.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

Trump cuts pricing deals with AstraZeneca https://www.axios.com/2025/10/10/trump-drug-prices-astra-zeneca

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 3d

Canada's senate debates bill to add warning labels to alcohol packaging https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/senate-debates-bill-to-add-warning-labels-to-alcohol-packaging/article_c2019919-3eb6-50c9-b4a8-614094b96913.html

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Senator Patrick Brazeau speaks to reporters as he arrives at the Senate on Parliament Hill on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016 in Ottawa.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 3d

Ontario declares measles outbreak over after nearly a year of spread https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-measles-outbreak-9.6933665

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Warning signage for suspected cases of measles is seen outside the main entrance of Woodstock General Hospital in Woodstock, Ont., on Thursday, May 22, 2025.

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