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Affordable rapid COVID-19 tests readily available to Canadians

Affordable rapid COVID-19 tests readily available to Canadians

Increasingly high demands have made getting rapid tests more difficult
Your Good Health: New drug for sinus polyps worth a try

Your Good Health: New drug for sinus polyps worth a try

People with polyps that grow back have a new option in medications that block a pro-inflammatory protein called interleukin-4
Your Good Health: Sleep habits affect your overall health

Your Good Health: Sleep habits affect your overall health

The optimal amount of sleep varies from person to person. What is clear is that if you are forcing yourself to get up after little sleep and then feel tired all day, that鈥檚 not good for your overall health.
Your Good Health: New heart treatment brings benefits

Your Good Health: New heart treatment brings benefits

Diabetes drug has been proven to reduce hospitalizations and improve outcomes in people with heart failure, with or without diabetes
Your Good Health: Shortness of breath can come from heart or lungs

Your Good Health: Shortness of breath can come from heart or lungs

Other conditions include severe anemia, and many psychological disorders, especially anxiety
Your Good Health: Atrial fibrillation, frequent urination might be linked

Your Good Health: Atrial fibrillation, frequent urination might be linked

Frequent urination is a common sign of overactive bladder
Your Good Health: COVID infection can cause slow heart rate

Your Good Health: COVID infection can cause slow heart rate

About 1% to 2% of people admitted to the hospital with COVID-19 developed a bradyarrhythmia
Your Good Health: Patients with atrial fibrillation can have knee surgery

Your Good Health: Patients with atrial fibrillation can have knee surgery

In an experienced hospital, where cardiologists and surgeons work together, there is no significant increase in risk for knee replacement surgery in a person with atrial fibrillation
Your Good Health: New onset of change of taste likely due to COVID-19

Your Good Health: New onset of change of taste likely due to COVID-19

New onset of change in smell or taste is highly likely due to COVID infection, and there are many cases of people who otherwise had no symptoms but developed this issue.
Your Good Health: Damage to liver rare with MS medication

Your Good Health: Damage to liver rare with MS medication

While 10% to 13% of people will show abnormal liver enzymes on a blood test, damage to the liver is uncommon.