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CBC News - Health

QEH installs AI scanner after 2-week pilot project finds more than 30 different weapons - Thinh Nguyen - News - Canada - PEI - | April 16 - |

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Cancer remains top cause of death in Canada as new study shows multiple types rising - Lauren Pelley - News - Health - | April 13 - |

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Health Canada warned against buying peptides online. CBC News easily bought some - Companies are selling peptides on the grey market, despite warnings from Health Canada. Amina Zafar - News - Health - | April 18

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Documents show Horizon staff raised alarm about ambulance bay unit long before public backlash -- Savannah Awde -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- New Brunswick

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First Nation seeks federal funding to support first on-reserve birthing lodge in Sask. -- Aishah Ashraf -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- Saskatchewan

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Atlantic Voice - More babies are born exposed to substances in N.L. as system struggles to keep up, says pediatrician - Caroline Hillier - News - Canada - Nfld. & Labrador - | April 19 - |

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Teen's death prompts push to ban energy drink sales to Quebec youth under 16 -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- Montreal -- |

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Hospitalization rates for illnesses like COVID, flu have doubled since pre-pandemic, report finds -- Lauren Pelley -- News -- - -- Health -- |

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Fear of reprisals, isolation, anxiety: Report documents mental health concerns at CSIS - Catharine Tunney - News - Politics - | April 18

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New B.C. program to 'track and trace' origins of illicit drug supply -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- British Columbia

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Video of woman collapsing in ER waiting room played at Ontario inquest into her sepsis death -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- Hamilton

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First Person -- I was a Hutterite teen in crisis, so I called a kids' help line. If you're in crisis, you should too -- Kaylee Maendel -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- Manitoba

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After testicular cancer surgery, Forge FC's Kyle Bekker wants men to 'listen to their body' -- Sports -- - -- Soccer -- - -- CPL -- |

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Alberta doctors urge province to offer free RSV shot to all newborns to cut health risks, hospital visits -- Jennifer Lee -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- Calgary -- |

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Province seeks new home for Saskatoon drug testing machine -- Phil Tank -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- Saskatoon

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5 people died in 2 weeks after using drugs in Winnipeg. 'The drug supply is poisoned,' RaY director says -- Lauren Scott -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- Manitoba

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First Nations people disproportionately impacted by B.C.'s toxic drug crisis, officials say -- Ashley Joannou -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- British Columbia

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Health Canada approves 1st needle-free epinephrine treatment for severe allergic reactions - News - Health - | April 15

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Ottawa 'very seriously' considering age restrictions for social media, AI chatbots -- Catharine Tunney

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CBC Investigates -- N.L. health minister calls new details of travel nurse agency billings 'egregious' -- Rob Antle -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- Nfld. & Labrador

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Concerns grow as ER in Mission faces its longest stretch of overnight closures yet -- Baneet Braich -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- British Columbia

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B.C. declared toxic drugs a public health emergency 10 years ago. Has it made a difference? -- Courtney Dickson -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- British Columbia

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Alberta moves to allow private diagnostic tests without a doctor's referral -- Emily Williams -- News -- - -- Canada -- - -- Edmonton

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Shoppers Drug Mart gave her the wrong medication. Months later, she landed in the ER -- Rosa Marchitelli

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Young adult cancer survivors at twice the risk of later cancers, study suggests -- Nicole Ireland

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