Reading Time: 5 minutes“At times it’s overwhelming, but if it were not for my parents, my grandparents, their grandparents what they endured it wouldn’t be possible for me to be here,” said U of O alumni and Canada’s only Indigenous forensic pathologist Dr. Kona Williams.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhy shouldn’t the government use an inanimate object that belongs to nobody to offer someone a concrete chance at extending their life?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough the Canadian health care system covers all essential medical services for residents, medication and prescriptions are not covered by this plan.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIf a tax-paying Canadian wants to receive a legal medical service, no matter how morally controversial, it is the doctor’s duty to perform that service.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the Great White North, most people’s gut reaction to the idea of health care reform is to not mess with the storied system that Tommy Douglas gave us. However, this argument fails to take into account the fact that a two-tier system already exists in Canada.
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhile the Ontario government covers sex reassignment surgery under OHIP, the road to getting these surgeries is unnecessarily long and bumpy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEven though there was a high probability that chemotherapy could have saved the life of someone like Makayla Sault, an aggressive attitude was probably not the best solution to this problem.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Society for Eating and Television (SEAT) has released new research showing that binge-watching Netflix while eating junk food is the best way to prevent a number of known physical ailments.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a 500-page report titled “Staying Safe in a Cancerous World,” scientists have found an intrinsic link between cancer and literally every food, activity, and any other thing known to humanity.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA recent outbreak of measles in Canada and the United States has sadly re-energized the anti-vaccine movement. This unfortunate reality is highlighted in a recent survey conducted by Mainstreet Technologies, which finds that 20 per cent of Ontarians believe that the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has a causal relationship with autism.
Reading Time: 2 minutesResearchers at Thompson Rivers University are conducting a pilot study looking at healthcare accessibility and use by female international students.
