Boy suffers third-degree burns attempting social media trend

12-06-2025

After 18 days in the University of Utah Burn Center and two skin graft surgeries, Parker was sent home Monday with a protective vest and a lot of hope. (KSTU via CNN Newsource)

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Sask. Health Authority announces new policy to honour Indigenous hair traditions

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Sask. Health Authority announces new policy to honour Indigenous hair traditions

The policy is meant to protect the cultural and spiritual significance of hair for Indigenous patients in Saskatchewan health-care settings.

RFK Jr. pulls US$500 million in funding for vaccine development

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RFK Jr. pulls US$500 million in funding for vaccine development

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as President Donald Trump listens at an event to promote his proposal to improve Americans' access to their medical records in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that US$500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted. The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation's leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections. The mRNA vaccines are credited with slowing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Kennedy said in the Tuesday statement that he wants the health department to move away from mRNA vaccines, calling on the department to start 'investing in better solutions.' He provided no details on what those technologies might be. Amanda Seitz, The Associated Press

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CBC

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Don't underestimate impact of prairie wildfire smoke on Windsor air quality, says health unit

Windsor's Air Quality Health Index on Aug. 4 was in the high-risk range, thanks to smoke from wildfires raging more than 1,500 kilometres away. CBC's Dalson Chen spoke with the region's Medical Officer of Health and Environment Canada about the phenomenon.