Clutching the phone, I collapsed to the floor and screamed, ‘No!’ ‘I’m sorry,’ my dad said helplessly. ‘I’m so sorry.’ It was ...
Reddit user Wise_Organization_78 recently asked, "Cancer Survivors of Reddit, what was the symptom that convinced you to see the doctor?" As a hypochondriac, you better bet I read every response.
It was about two months ago, in the middle of March, that my daughter started coughing. I'll admit I was blithely unconcerned. Frankie is nearly 11 and generally pretty robust. She's rarely ill ...
Nothing, it seemed, could deflect Irena Stoynova from her route to self-destruction. Hours from death and unconscious, she was admitted to a Surrey hospital last year after being 'brainwashed ...
A man who has been told he has incurable bowel cancer says there were five red flag signs he missed, that could have seen him diagnosed earlier. Journalist Robert Fisk says the main emotion he ...
This is a First Person column by Carolina Avendano Duque, who lives in Calgary. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ. I have gone eight Mother's Days without ...
Around one in five people suffering from long Covid in Switzerland still have symptoms - albeit mild ones - after two years, a study shows. Their findings showed that almost a quarter (23%) of ...