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Last August, Dennis Anselmo, who lives in Morinville, was on the job in Edmonton building a fence with his co-worker when he suddenly felt unwell. “I had hot and cold flashes at the same time and kind of a little…

All hospitals follow standard procedures for assessing patients when they arrive in the emergency department. Those with potentially life-threatening conditions – such as heart attacks and strokes – are normally treated right away. But once the decision is made that…

The federal government needs to ensure there is money for palliative care in the budget next week as part of a down payment on a much larger repair project, health advocates say. The Canadian Cancer Society said the Liberal government…

Continuous glucose monitors use a hair-thin sensor under the skin to record precise readings every five minutes. But when kids go to school, extracurricular events, camps or sleep-overs, parents don’t have access to those critical blood-sugar numbers. So a new…

Access to fresh fruit, vegetables and many other foods could be dramatically limited due to climate change by 2050, according to a new report published in the medical journal the Lancet. In the report, scientists from the U.S. and the U.K. predict a…

“Heart rate variability gives us a window into the body’s entire physiological functioning,” says Dr. David Liepart, an Alberta Health Services anesthesiologist and lead investigator in the study. Heart rate variability monitors are different than heart monitors because they are…

Keith Lundale, a councillor with the R.M. of West Interlake and member of the West Interlake Health Advocacy Committee called it a “crisis situation.” “We’ve had cases where a critically-ill patient picked up at their home wanted to go to…

This investment would improve community-based hospice and palliative care services including: Supporting up to 20 new hospices across Ontario and increasing the funding for existing facilities Increasing supports for caregivers that will help families and loved ones support palliative patients…

More than two-thirds of the world’s population lives in countries that do not produce reliable statistics on mortality by age, sex, and cause of death – one of the most important health indicators for understanding a country’s health priorities. Only…

In this issue, we look at business through a ‘health’ lens. Just as you cannot thrive if your health is compromised in some way, so it goes for organizations, communities, and society in general. We simply can’t have healthy communities…