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Health The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says the recall covers Compliments, Foremost, Golden Valley Eggs, IGA, no name and Western Family eggs. Recall affects B.C., Ontario, Manitoba and ‘possibly other provinces and territories’The Canadian Press · Posted: Jan 18, 2025 6:01 PM EST | Last Updated: 9 hours ago TheContinue Reading

Canada needs doctors, but foreign-trained physicians can’t land residencies here Canada is in urgent need of doctors, but foreign-trained physicians can’t find residencies here, leaving many of them to take jobs outside their fields. This story is part of Welcome to Canada, a CBC News series about immigration told through theContinue Reading

Health U.S. regulators on Wednesday banned the additive called red dye No. 3 from the nation’s food supply, nearly 35 years after it was barred from cosmetics because of potential cancer risk. Food manufacturers will have until January 2027 to remove the dye from their productsThe Associated Press · Posted:Continue Reading

Health In Tuesday’s issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, dozens of international medical experts and people with lived experience are proposing a major change to how obesity is diagnosed because they say current medical approaches don’t reliably assess an individual’s health. New definitions, diagnostic criteria could reduce stigma forContinue Reading

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. Headlines warning people to throw out their black plastic kitchen utensils live on, as doContinue Reading

Health Winter surge in respiratory illness in China within expected range, WHO saysRising cases of common respiratory illnesses in China and elsewhere around the Northern Hemisphere are within the range expected for winter, WHO says. Countries including India, U.K. have also reported seasonal rise in cases of human metapneumovirusThomson ReutersContinue Reading

Health The Louisiana Department of Health said on Monday that a U.S. patient hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has died. Nearly 70 people in the U.S. have contracted bird flu since April, officials sayThomson Reuters · Posted: Jan 06, 2025 5:07 PM EST | Last Updated: January 6 A personContinue Reading

Health The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed new guidance for devices used to monitor blood oxygen levels to improve their accuracy and performance across a range of skin tones. FDA says recommendations address accuracy concerns of medical devices affected by factors like skin toneThomson Reuters · Posted: Jan 06,Continue Reading

Health New research shows the rate of myopia among children and teens worldwide has tripled over the past three decades, with a particularly steep increase noted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.  With ‘near time’ identified as a problem, parents urged to boosting outdoor time Mike CrawleyContinue Reading