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For most women, there are few more terrifying words to hear than: “You have breast cancer.” Unless, of course, it’s being told the recommended treatment is having both breasts lopped off, followed by round after round of chemotherapy.
But seven years after Myrtle Lewis had a double-mastectomy and 11 lymph nodes removed, followed by six months [...]

Holidaymakers at one of the country’s busiest resorts say it is so filthy and unsafe it should be shut down.
Waingaro Hot Springs, west of Ngaruawahia, has previously been criticised by the coroner and water safety experts after a child drowned there.
Now there are fresh calls for the Waikato District Council which owns the lease of [...]

Then, in less than 12 months, the eastern Ontario city suddenly recruited 10 medical students or residents, who will all but close Belleville’s gap in service as they finish their training and set up practice over the next four years.Just down the highway, Hastings County has similarly beaten the odds in this time of doctor [...]

%26quot;It was horrible,%26quot; Vancouver native Scott Morrison told Canwest News Service Thursday. %26quot;You know you can’t fall asleep at any time. The police were pulling guys in and out of the jail. You don’t know who’s in there for what. It was the most scary thing.%26quot; Morrison, 22, was arrested early Sunday, along with his [...]

The Canadian women’s curling championship begins on Saturday at the Brandt Centre. Joe Englot, Michelle’s father, died on Friday at the family farm in Montmartre. He was 74.Michelle Englot, who is the Regina-based skip of Saskatchewan, intends to keep curling in her sixth Canadian women’s championship.%26quot;It’s not as if he wasn’t healthy but he told [...]

According to his doctor, he should be in hospital. Instead, he’s locked inside a white, two-storey house next to a large Sikh temple, and is attended to by priests and their subordinates. They say he’s not going anywhere.Before wearing out his welcome last week, Mr. Singh was lodged inside another Sikh house, owned by a [...]

The Calgary Health Region and Palliser Health Region will also examine their patient referral procedures after physicians attempted to transfer Jack Hintz, 85, from a hospital in Medicine Hat, Alta., to Calgary for hip surgery.Medicine Hat is located almost 300 kilometres southeast of Calgary. The case sparked a national political debate when a Medicine Hat [...]

According to his doctor, he should be in hospital. Instead, he’s locked inside a white, two-storey house next to a large Sikh temple, and is attended to by priests and their subordinates. They say he’s not going anywhere.Before wearing out his welcome last week, Mr. Singh was lodged inside another Sikh house, owned by a [...]

The first doctor the 33-year-old approached made her fill out a detailed questionnaire on her medical condition, then rejected her application without any explanation. She soon discovered that all the other physicians accepting new patients in St. Catharines, Ont., had a similar screening process.More and more practitioners across Canada are conducting one-on-one interviews and handing [...]

It’s clear we have a problem. The country has approximately 15,000 too few doctors, a figure roughly double the total number of students in all years of study at our 17 medical schools combined. At a doctor-patient ratio of just 2.3 per 1,000 population, we are 24th on the list of 28 industrialized countries. Approximately [...]