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New guidance to help family doctors detect and manage high-risk drinking addresses a crucial gap in knowledge among both patients and doctors, say its authors, who warn that a common practice to prescribe antidepressants can actually induce cravings for alcohol. The advice is comprised of 15 recommendations on early detection …

Eating disorders requiring hospital care increased “significantly” among children and teenagers in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research. A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) on Tuesday revealed that emergency department visits and hospitalizations for eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa …

A family from Evansburg, Alta., with three children who have been diagnosed with the rare and fatal Batten disease has been given a new kind of hope due to an older medication. Members of the Lamprecht family said they were told the chances of three of their four children having …

This First Person column is written by Karli Jahn, a master’s student at Athabasca University who is writing her thesis on weight stigma in counselling interventions. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. “Are you sure you have an eating disorder?” the doctor asked me. …

After his parents desperately raised $3 million over three years trying to find a cure for their son’s rare genetic disease, Michael Pirovolakis is one step closer to possible recovery. Michael, 4, is the only child in Canada diagnosed with spastic paraplegia 50 (SPG50), a slowly progressing neurodegenerative disorder that generally …

Fernando Caballero misses the way he used to be: happy-go-lucky, the life of the party and the protector of his family. The 67-year-old was active and enjoyed rollerblading in the summer, ice skating in the winter and dancing all year round. But now, he uses a cane or walker to get …

The UK drug regulator added an extremely rare nerve-damaging disorder, Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), as a very rare side effect of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, updates on the agency’s website showed on Thursday. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) decision comes after the European medicines agency added GBS as a …

BENGALURU: Two anganwadi workers, who experienced uneasiness after taking the first vaccine dose in January, were recently diagnosed with Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a rare condition in which a person’s immune system attacks the nerves. They are aged 35 and 45 and currently being treated at a hospital. The exact cause …