Health Matters: U.S. military finishes installing floating pier to assist aid delivery in Gaza

I'm Katherine Ward with your top health headlines right now. the US military has finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip to help Palestinians facing starvation. Officials say they are poised to begin ferrying badly needed humanitarian aid into the enclave that has been besieged with intense fighting in the Israel Hamas war for more than seven months. Israel recently seized the key Rafa border crossing in its push on that southern city on the Egyptian border, complicating shipments. Of food and other aid. Statistics Canada has found half of racialized people living in Canada have faced some form of discrimination or unfair treatment in the past five years. The experiences occurred at school, work, shopping and seeking healthcare, and those experiences are linked to worse quality of life. People who said they experienced discrimination were more than twice as likely to report fair or poor mental health. Health misinformation has been spreading largely unchecked around the world, and the consequences can be a matter of life and death. Now YouTube is expanding a program to Canada that identifies doctors and health experts who are sources of accurate information. This accreditation shows up on a banner underneath videos identifying the creators as licensed. YouTube's algorithm also boosts their content. We want to make sure that when they're searching for health information on YouTube. That the kinds of sources that they encounter initially are sources that are going to be delivering evidence based quality health information so that can help in their overall health journey, a health law and policy professor told Global News. He welcomes the work to combat health misinformation, but says the program isn't foolproof. Vegetarian and vegan diets can help you live a healthier life, a review of dozens of papers found. Diets, high implant products and low in meat, refined grains, sugar and salt come with a number of benefits. Plant based diets have a strong association with decreased risk of heart diseases, cancer, managing blood sugar and body mass index, and overall mortality. But the review didn't find there is any difference in the risk of gestational BDS and hypertension for those who are pregnant. Those are the top health stories right now. For more, you can head to globalnews.ca. I'm Catherine Ward.