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Loblaw's PC Health launches chatbot as more people turn to AI for health info. Here's what to know (opens the original)
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Last Updated September 29, 2026 11:39 am. TORONTO — Loblaw Companies Limited’s PC Health launched an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot earlier this month, and the company says it processed more than 100,000 questions in its first week. Called PC Chat, the tool is trained on Canadian clinical sources, ranging from provincial vaccine guidelines to health charities such as Diabetes Canada to health professional associations. Users who get prescriptions at Shoppers Drug Mart, which is owned by
Food Allergy Canada calls for laws requiring schools to stock epinephrine devices (opens the original)
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TORONTO — Last May, six-year-old Kofi Berkley started getting itchy and developing bumps on his skin while he was playing with his friends at recess. The recess supervisor brought the Grade 1 student, who didn’t have any known allergies, to his Edmonton elementary school’s office. Principal Joanne Harle and an administrative assistant applied ice on his skin to try to soothe the irritation. “Truly to goodness within — it felt like an hour but it wasn’t, it was probably maybe a minute — you could
Check vaccinations before heading back to school: chief public health officer (opens the original)
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TORONTO — Canada’s chief public health officer is urging parents to check that routine childhood vaccinations are up-to-date as kids head back to school. In an interview on Tuesday, Dr. Joss Reimer said measles is still spreading, while vaccine misinformation continues to circulate online. The national measles immunization rate for two-year-olds is about 85 per cent, falling short of the 95 per cent needed for herd immunity, Reimer said. Although rates of infection in the multi-province measles
E-scooter hospitalizations up by 40%, many with head and brain injuries: data (opens the original)
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TORONTO — The Canadian Institute for Health Information says hospitalizations for both children and adults riding e-scooters rose by almost 40 per cent in the past year. Data released Tuesday showed there were 837 hospitalizations last year between April 2025 and March 2026, up from 601 in the same period the previous year. Fractures and head and brain injuries were among the most common reasons e-scooter riders were hospitalized. Meanwhile, the number of kids 15 years of age and under hospitali
Percentage of Ontario youth struggling with mental health back to pre-COVID level, survey suggests (opens the original)
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TORONTO — The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health says psychological distress among Ontario youth appears to have decreased since the pandemic, but still remains high. At the same time, a rising number of students are taking part in online gambling, CAMH’s latest Ontario Student Drug Use and Health Survey, released Monday, said. The survey found 46 per cent of youth in grades 7 to 12 reported a “moderate to serious level” of psychological distress in 2025. That’s down from 51 per cent of stud
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