About two years ago, Suzanne noticed that her daughter was getting thinner and thinner. The Ottawa resident suspected that her daughter, then 14, had developed bulimia. By December 2019, she was struggling to get out of bed and looked gravely ill. Her parents were worried about her heart: purging a symptom of bulimia that can involve self-induced vomiting, laxative misuse, and other behaviours can cause imbalances of the electrolytes that help maintain a regular heart rhythm.
In January 2020, Suzanne’s daughter agreed to go on a wait-list for an eating-disorder clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. About two months later, as COVID-19 began upending the world, their family doctor instructed her to go to the emergency room immediately. She was admitted to the hospital’s inpatient eating-disorder program later that day.
Published Wednesday, April 21, 2021 1:40PM EDT Mayor John Tory says the city is continuing to work out the logistics of vaccine pop-up clinics as the sites continue to attract long lineups and demand that often exceeds available supply. Residents and employees aged 18 and older in select hot spot postal codes have been eligible to get a shot through mobile teams and hospital-run pop-up clinics in their communities, but in many cases, the vaccine is available on a first-come, first-served basis. At a pop-up clinic at Downsview Arena, located near Jane Street and Wilson Avenue, people waited in long lineups in the snow in hopes of getting a shot early this morning.
The stress, the anxiety, the nightmares : What it s like to work in the country s strained ICUs
Acute care nurses and doctors say the influx of third-wave patients is taking a huge toll on them and other health-care professionals who care for the sickest patients in hospitals across the country.
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Nikki Skillen is a 24-year veteran ICU nurse in the GTA. She said hospitals are now bringing nurses in from other departments to keep up with demand created by critically ill COVID patients.(Submitted by Nikki Skillen)
If you re sick, stay home is a non-starter for many Canadians
Most Canadian workers still feel like they can t stay home from work, even if they are worried they might have COVID-19. Despite growing demands for better paid sick leave, most Canadians still have inadequate coverage.
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Back in January, The Bachelorette winner Zac Clark ran a 5K with his fiancée, Tayshia Adams. Now, Clark is back with a different kind of feat: running four miles every four hours for 48 hours also known as the Goggins Challenge.
The 37-year-old initially wanted to take place in the challenge hosted by The Maddie Project a charity in association with North York General Hospital that focuses on youth mental health from March 5 through 7 of this year, but he couldn’t because of scheduling conflict. However, since reading David Goggins’s
Finding Ultra in 2020, Clark has been toying with the idea going farther.