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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 9h
You have a higher chance of getting cancer at a younger age than your parents. So what went wrong? By Devi Sridhar. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 09/10/2026
1 in 3 young Canadians use AI once a month for mental health, Uday Rana reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #DigitalHealth #MentalHealthCA
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 09/10/2026
‘I feel like I’m being punished for doing well’: Calgary cancer patient seeks continued drug funding. By Kevin Green. Read this article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #CancerCare
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 09/10/2026
What you eat while on Ozempic is crucial, experts warn. Here’s how to avoid malnutrition, Kevin Jiang reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #PharmacareCA
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 09/10/2026
Routine childhood vaccination coverage remains below level needed for population immunity, Alanna Smith reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #PublicHealthCA
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 09/10/2026
Unproven ‘cures’ pushed online amid plague concerns, AFP reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #PneumonicPlague
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 09/10/2026
How good is this year's flu shot? Here's what to know about flu season, Alexandra Mae Jones reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #PublicHealthCA
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
The Liberals' plan for MAID sounds good — if they aren't bluffing, Chris Selley writes. Read this article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #MAID #MentalHealthCA
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
Cost of medicines from Canada set to soar for millions of Americans, Fatima Hussein reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #USHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
How pond algae led to a Nobel prize and a new way to study the brain, Robert Lucas writes. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca #BrainHealth #HealthInnovation
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international research finds. By Anna Bawden. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #Cancer
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
Decoding the Russian plague scare. Check out this Front Burner podcast episode at canadahealthwatch.ca #PneumonicPlague #InternationalHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
Ontario narrows out-of-country drug funding rules after cancer patient court victory, The Canadian Press reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
Ottawa Public Health alerting residents of possible measles exposure locations, Ted Raymond reports. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca #PublicHealthCA #MeaslesCA
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
How anti-COVID activism injected life into Alberta's separatist movement, Jason Markusoff reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #COVID #CdnHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
'Complete shock': Cancer patient faces huge, unexpected bill to carry on with successful treatment. By Devon Dekuyper. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #CancerCare
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
Liberals signal new MAID legislation to be tabled this fall, Andrew Meade reports. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca #MAID #MentalHealthCA
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
What happens when you put a daycare and a long-term care home under one roof? By Sabrina Bedford. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
What is the pneumonic plague? Michaeleen Doucleff and Marc Silver explain in this article. Read it at canadahealthwatch.ca #PneumonicPlague
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
WHO says no obesity drugs, surgery for under-10s, AFP reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #Obesity
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
Canadian develops at-home cancer-screening test after doctors said he was too young to get tested, Omar Sachedina reports. Read this article at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
Americans face steep increase in Canadian drug costs if U.S. customs rule takes effect, Fatima Hussein reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #USHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
Russia's public health watchdog denies a second infection in suspected pneumonic plague case, The Associated Press reports. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca #PneumonicPlague
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 08/10/2026
WHO wants more answers from Russia about lab worker's death as pneumonic plague concerns linger, Jamey Keaten reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #PneumonicPlague
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
A 194-year-old tortoise, world’s oldest land animal, may hold clues to longer life, Marta Serafinko reports. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Connected care: giving physicians more time for patients. By Joy Ardanaz. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Menopause makes your body age faster. Here’s why — and what you can do about it. By Kevin Jiang. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #Menopause #WomensHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Policy experts provide prescriptions for feds on dealing with drug shortages, Christopher Guly reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
She’s a nutritionist. It didn’t stop perimenopause weight gain catching her totally off guard. By Sarah Laing. Read this article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #Menopause #WomensHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Christa Pike survived 2 doses of an execution drug. How is that possible? By Hannah Schoenbaum and Hallie Golden. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Ottawa to indefinitely extend MAID exclusion for people solely suffering from mental illness, Peter Zimonjic reports. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #MAID #MentalHealthCA
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Women’s heart attacks can look different than men’s, and emergency rooms are missing it. Lots on women's health and menopause with this week's Pulse Check™. Read it here: canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Ontario’s flu season is off to an early start, especially among kids, Kerry Gillespie reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #PublicHealthCA
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Weight gain can be one of menopause’s most distressing symptoms. Experts break it down. By Sarah Laing. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #Menopause #WomensHealth #CdnHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Santé Québec releases report touting nearly $2-billion in savings, Tu Thanh Ha reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
HPV vaccine safe and effective despite RFK Jr. claims, Marissa Birnie reports. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca #VaccineSafety #CdnHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Respiratory illness season hitting GTA earlier this year, Joshua Freeman reports. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #PublicHealthCA
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Liberals to outline plans on assisted dying ahead of mental illness expansion, Sarah Ritchie reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #MAID #MentalHealthCA
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Cancer is the critical issue missing from Canada’s economic growth and productivity agenda, Andrea Seale writes. canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/10/07/c... #CdnHealth #CancerCare
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Cancer is the critical issue missing from Canada’s economic growth…
Canada needs a transformational investment in cancer care. Fixing our economy depends on it.
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Russian officials say no cases of plague in city where lab technician died, Thomson Reuters reports. Read this article at canadahealthwatch.ca #PublicHealth #PneumonicPlague
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Kenya confirms 1st Ebola case imported from Congo, The Associated Press reports. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca #EbolaOutbreak
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
Should kids living with obesity be on GLP-1s? New global guidance says yes — in some cases, Lauren Pelley reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #ChildrensHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 07/10/2026
There’s been a mysterious death at a plague research lab in Russia. Canada is seeing a rise in COVID and flu cases. And there’s still an ongoing TB crisis in Canada’s North. Ya... lots to catch up on with this Weekly Dose™ canadahealthwatch.ca/newsletter/2...
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Lots on illness, including a potential plague case
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 06/10/2026
Justice minister to announce next steps for MAID in Canada, Hannah Alberga and Sarah Ritchie report. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca #MAID #MentalHealthCA
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 06/10/2026
Did a Russian lab worker die from pneumonic plague? What we know — and don't know. By Nick Logan. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #PneumonicPlague
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 06/10/2026
Ottawa, Northwest Territories sign $51-million health funding agreement, Sarah Ritchie reports. Read more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHEalth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 06/10/2026
National dental plan hits roadblocks. A new report highlights problems for patients, Rachel Aiello reports. This article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth #DentalHealth
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 06/10/2026
New York declares disaster emergency over measles outbreak, Dharna Bafna reports. Find out more at canadahealthwatch.ca #USHealth #MeaslesOutbreak
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 05/10/2026
This startup wants to prove gene-editing embryos is safe for making healthy babies, Rob Stein reports. Read this article and more at canadahealthwatch.ca #HealthInnovation
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 05/10/2026
Canadians are getting a bad deal and collectively overpaying for medicines by billions of dollars each year, Nav Persaud writes. Read this article at canadahealthwatch.ca #CdnHealth
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