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Physicians are calling for a change to prevent patients from receiving tragic medical news alone, without compassionate support from a health-care provider.

A University of Calgary student is drawing from her lived experience with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) to further the medical field's understanding of the neurological disorder through a new study looking at its long-term impacts.

An Ontario resident who recently travelled to East Africa is being tested for Ebola, according to the province's health ministry.

The World Health Organization has confirmed that the latest Ebola outbreak, of the rare Bundibugyo strain of the virus, in Congo and Uganda is a public health emergency of international concern but not a pandemic emergency. Dr. Paul Ngwakum, senior health advisor for UNICEF Africa, says in the absence of a vaccine, it is 'very critical' to have other public health measures such as early detection, rapid response and infection control.

Surgery to remove the fallopian tubes as a permanent method of birth control could also reduce a woman's risk of the most common ovarian cancer, but a group of B.C. researchers and physicians say the procedure isn't widely known across Canada and they are trying to change that.

Argentine investigators searching for the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise that set sail last month were trapping rodents in the forests surrounding the southernmost city of Ushuaia on Tuesday, with the aim of detecting the possible presence of the virus in an area previously thought unaffected.