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  B.C. teen shares struggles with mental health, calls for better services

  Emmy Casper-Joe hadn’t even reached her teens when she started to struggle with her mental health.

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  Trudeau touts 'real progress' on pharmacare, calls on premiers to start cutting deals

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday provinces and territories need to start negotiating pharmacare deals as soon as possible, a day after legislation to enact the program received royal assent.

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  Bayer must pay US$78 million in latest Roundup cancer trial, jury finds

  Bayer must pay US$78 million to a Pennsylvania man who said he got cancer from using the company's Roundup weedkiller, a state court jury in Philadelphia found on Thursday.

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  Senate passes Liberal, NDP bill to cover diabetes and birth control medication

  The pharmacare bill that was central to a political pact between the Liberals and NDP become law Thursday after the Senate passed the bill without making any changes.

• Regina girl diagnosed with rare genetic condition faces limited treatment options

  For Scarlett Hicks, everyday life is challenging, as the two-year-old lives with a long list of medical conditions.

• COVID-19 may increase the risk of heart attacks, strokes and deaths for three years after an infection, study suggests

  COVID-19 could be a powerful risk factor for heart attacks and strokes for as long as three years after an infection, a large new study suggests.

• 4 people in Ontario sickened with listeriosis amid beef tongue recall: ministry

  The Ontario Ministry of Health says four people have been sickened after consuming beef tongue believed to be contaminated with listeria.

• What women should know about their breasts, according to a doctor

  One in eight women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in their lifetimes, according to the American Cancer Society. Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States, with 42,000 women dying every year from this cancer.

• Report suggests decrease in condom use among Canadian youth, lack of safe-sex education

  A new report that looks at the sex lives of Canadian youth suggests more needs to be done to encourage safe sex, including reversing a decrease in condom use.

• Ontario lowers the age for self-referral mammogram breast screening to age 40

  The Ontario government has lowered the age for regular mammogram breast screening to allow all woman between the age of 40 and 49 to self-refer for the service.

• One American physician's long journey to becoming a family doctor in Canada

  An American family doctor is frustrated with what she says has been a challenging two-year-and-counting bureaucratic journey to be accepted into Canada.

• AI can help family doctors buried in paperwork. Why is uptake low?

  AI scribe technology holds the promise of removing some of that burden. However, uptake in Canada has been low due to privacy and cost concerns.