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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 10h

Ontarians will have quicker access to some new cancer drugs, health minister says https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/cancer-drugs-ontario-canada-1.7653202

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Ontario's new Funding Accelerated for Specific Treatments program aims to improve patients' access to life-saving and life-changing cancer treatments.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 10h

Ex-FDA regulator Peter Marks joins Eli Lilly https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/07/peter-marks-former-fda-vaccine-official-joins-eli-lilly/

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CPHA - ACSP @cpha-acsp.bsky.social · 17h

"Our study shows that LNSSBs (low- or non-sugar-sweetened beverages) were actually linked to a higher risk of MASLD, even at modest intake levels such as a single can per day."

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Sugary drinks raise risk of common liver disease, study finds https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/diet-and-sugary-drinks-raise-risk-of-common-liver-disease-by-up-to-60-new-research-finds/

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Both diet and sugary drinks dramatically raise the risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, new research found. Doucefleur/iStockphoto/Getty Images via CNN Newsource

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 20h

Nobel prizes: Here are 5 scientific breakthroughs https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/5-nobel-worthy-scientific-advances-that-havent-won-the-prize/

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Chemists Shankar Balasubramanian and David Klenerman and biophysicist Pascal Mayer stand onstage at the Ninth Breakthrough Prize ceremony in April 2023 in Los Angeles.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 20h

Discovery of cells that keep immune responses in check wins medicine Nobel Prize https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/10/discovery-of-cells-that-keep-immune-responses-in-check-wins-medicine-nobel-prize/

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Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 awarded by the Nobel Assembly to scientists Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi at the Nobel Forum of Karolinska Institute, Stockholm City, Sweden, October 6, 2025.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 21h

Youth suicide rates rise across the US https://www.axios.com/2025/10/07/young-adult-suicide-rate-map

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 21h

CDC backs updated Covid vaccines as access issues persist: 'We still don't have doses in hand' https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/cdc-covid-vaccines-misinformation-access-issues

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A child receives a dose of the Moderna Covid vaccine in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, on 11 September 2025.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 21h

Sudbury woman turns to GoFundMe to cover expenses after a kidney transplant https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/medical-travel-costs-northern-ontario-1.7649466

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Renée Pelletier, of Sudbury, is seen here while in recovery at the London Health Sciences Centre following a successful kidney transplant.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 21h

A chronic syndrome left her in pain for 7 years. A leg amputation gave her her life back https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-pain-syndrome-recovery-1.7647532

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'I was taking more medications, more pain pills, which I definitely did not want to do, but had to if I wanted to function on a daily basis,' Kathy Vail says of her experience with complex regional pain syndrome.

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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 1d

Leaving an ER without being seen is riskier than you think.

It’s linked to a 14% higher risk of hospital admission & death.

Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Too many Canadians are leaving ERs before getting assessed www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com

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A treatment room in the emergency department at Calgary's Peter Lougheed Hospital. 1 in 13 patents nationwide left ERs before they were treated because of long wait times.

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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 1d

Trump making fake videos to post on his social media site claiming fake "med-beds" exist to cure everything while gutting public health and health care in the USA is just... Like, remember when it wasn't like this? It wasn't always like this.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How Truth Social’s bogus medical claims fool Trump fans

It's not just "medbeds."

www.motherjones.com

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 1d

US relies heavily on China, other nations for antibiotics

An analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University finds China supplies US drug manufacturers with more than 60% of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed to make antibiotics.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Ottawa eyes 'recruitment ambassador' to attract family doctors https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-recommends-plan-to-recruit-more-family-doctors-1.7652576

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Ottawa's plan to attract more family doctors to the city includes joining a recruitment alliance and building ties with the University of Ottawa's family medicine program.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Sugary drinks raise risk of common liver disease, study finds https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/diet-and-sugary-drinks-raise-risk-of-common-liver-disease-by-up-to-60-new-research-finds/

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

CDC signs off on RFK Jr. vaccine recommendations https://www.axios.com/2025/10/06/cdc-rfk-jr-vaccine-recommendations-schedule

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A syringe containing a COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Trump official calls for MMR vaccine to be separated into 3 shots https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/trump-official-jim-oneill-break-up-mmr-vaccine/

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada's Measles Outbreak thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-... @monicakidd.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca

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illustration of a kid with measles being held by an adult

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

The NIH ordered me to stop my ‘dangerous’ gain-of-function research. It isn’t dangerous at all www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

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a sign in a lab reads: "Caution! Authorized personnel only"

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

This week’s US Supreme Court case has ramifications beyond transgender care https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/supreme-court-chiles-v-salazar-conversion-therapy-challenge/

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

I've been approved for MAID. And now I must figure out when https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/first-person/article-medical-assistance-in-dying-approval-timing/

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Too many Canadians are leaving ERs before getting assessed www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @drgorfinkel.bsky.social @theglobeandmail.com

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 1d

Three scientists awarded Nobel Prize in medicine for immune system research https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-nobel-prize-medicine-immune-system-research/

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Osaka University professor Dr. Shimon Sakaguchi receives flowers at a news conference in Suita, near Osaka, on Monday, after he won the Nobel Prize in medicine.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

AMA says outbreak was preventable after Alberta sees first measles death https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/outbreak-in-alberta-was-preventable-ama-president-criticizes-provinces-handling-of-measles-outbreak-while-premier-defends-it/

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After a baby died of measles this week, The Alberta Medical Association is encouraging Albertans to get vaccinated in order to prevent more deaths and hospitali

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

Planet-first diet can feed the world by 2050: research https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/article/a-planet-first-diet-can-feed-the-world-by-2050-while-improving-the-environment-new-scientific-analysis-finds/

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Reducing meat production while boosting the consumption of plants is a key way to improve the health of the planet and its inhabitants.

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 2d

The surprising and hellish way action stars get that ripped look: severe dehydration https://nationalpost.com/health/the-surprising-and-hellish-way-action-stars-get-that-ripped-look-severe-dehydration

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