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Schizophrenia's prevalence rate has gone up—here's why this matters to you | Georgia Straight Vancouver's source for arts, culture, and events

Even if you don’t know someone with the illness. ....

Bonnie Spence Vinge , Treatment Advocacy Centre , Bc Schizophrenia Society , Substance Use Disorders Prevalence Study , Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System , British Columbians ,

Vaccine skeptics misrepresent Toronto SickKids' campaign

Covid-19 shots have been associated with rare cases of heart problems, but claims that a short publicity film from an Ontario children's hospital charity aims to "normalize" heart attacks in kids are misleading. The SickKids Foundation advertisement tells the story of a child with a genetic heart condition that is not linked to vaccines. ....

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Sask. woman part of international study seeking to improve healthcare for those with brain injuries

Barb Butler was involved in a motor vehicle accident in 1993, resulting in a brain injury.

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Jamie Hutchison , Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium , Public Health Association Of Canada , Public Health Agency Of Canada , Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium Dr , Barb Butler , Brain Injury Canada , Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research , Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System , Health Agency , Public Health Association ,

SaveStation Unveiling at Riverdale Park in Memory of Gilles Gagnier

Gillesʼ sisters, along with his wife Nancy Kelly have raised over $8,000 to install a SaveStation with an AED in Riverdale Park. ....

Denise Gagnier Acker , Gilles Gagnier , Claire Pecore , Nancy Kelly , Automated External Defibrilator , Sudden Cardiac Arrest , Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System , Riverdale Park ,

The link between medical conditions and fatal drownings in Canada: a 10-year cross-sectional analysis

Background: Drowning accounts for hundreds of preventable deaths in Canada every year, but the impact of preexisting medical conditions on the likelihood of death from drowning is not known. We aimed to describe the prevalence of pre-existing medical conditions among people who fatally drowned in Canada and evaluate the risk of fatal drowning among people with common pre-existing medical conditions.

Methods: We reviewed all Canadian unintentional fatal drownings (2007–2016) in the Drowning Prevention Research Centre Canada’s database. For each fatal drowning we established whether the person had pre-existing medical conditions and whether those conditions contributed to the drowning. We calculated relative risk (RR) of fatal drowning stratified by age and sex for each pre-existing medical condition using data from the Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System.

Results: During 2007–2016, 4288 people fatally drowned unintentially in Canada, of whom one-third had a ....

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