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A Winnipeg researcher’s work has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on predicting the risk of kidney failure. Dr. Navdeep Tangri developed a risk equation using Canadian patient data and his work will be adopted globally. “As a kidney doctor, I found so many of my patients were coming to my clinic and asking the …

A lifesaving cancer treatment program is getting a boost from the B.C. government. Premier Christy Clark has pledged $3 million in funding for the BC Cancer Agency, $2 million of which will go to the agency’s Personalized Onco–Genomics program, also known as POG. “We are going to change lives,” said Clark, whose mother died of brain cancer after surviving breast …

Entire car gets frozen in ice as hazardous weather hits Lake Erie near Buffalo. A lake effect snow band dumped about two inches of snow per hour on the region, forcing schools to close and resulting in near whiteout conditions on the roads, WKBW-TV reported.

In a Canadian first, a multi-disciplinary team, led by Dr. Steven McCabe, has successfully completed the country’s first transplant of the upper limb. During a procedure lasting approximately 14 hours, a team of 18 surgeons attached the forearm and hand matched from a donor to a patient who had been evaluated as a suitable candidate. This required the cooperation of …

Kristen Bell and Ted Danson have just signed on for the new television show Good Place over at NBC!. Two-time Emmy Award winner Ted Danson and acclaimed actress Kristen Bell have been cast in NBC‘s new Michael Schur comedy series “Good Place.” Kristen Bell plays Eleanor, a woman from New Jersey who comes to realize that she hasn’t been a …

Jennifer Lawrence is being ripped for calling out a foreign reporter who read questions off his phone while trying to ask her questions after the Golden Globes on Sunday night. The Hunger Games star was backstage after winning the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical for Joy and when a reporter …

The BC Centre for Disease Control says a B.C. resident who recently travelled to El Salvador has contracted the Zika virus. This is a virus that is spread to people through mosquito bites, but those mosquitoes that transmit the virus to humans are not found in Canada. Widespread outbreaks were reported in Brazil and Columbia in 2015 with cases also …

A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal today says that five per cent of Ontarians account for 65 per cent of provincial healthcare costs for individual care, with the top one per cent accounting for one-third of these costs. The three-year study also found that one per cent of Ontarians accounted for 33 per cent of all health …

A Canadian teenager has racked up a bill of almost $8,000 on his parent’s credit card after accidentally making a series of in-game purchases in FIFA. According to Ottawa’s CBC News, Lance Perkins received a credit card bill on December 23rd for $7,625.88. His son had reportedly used the card to make in-game purchases from one of EA’s FIFA soccer …

Sylvester Stallone’s wife and three daughters, Sistine, Sophia and Scarlet stole the spotlight on the Golden Globes red carpet Sunday night. “I’ll try to not get emotional,” said Stallone when he got up on stage to accept the award for Best Supporting Actor for “Creed” amid a standing ovation. The longtime actor rattled off several names — from his co-stars …

Amandla Stenberg, who is most well known for her role as Rue in The Hunger Games, took over Teen Vogue’s Snapchat on Thursday and officially came out as bisexual. The 17-year-old actress was featured on the magazine’s account following the reveal of her first cover for the publication.