Sarah Pakzad, a researcher at the Université de Moncton, is developing an app based on the Neurocognitive Frailty Index…
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The framework for a palliative care strategy aims to improve access to palliative and end-of-life care services. As part…
- NBHC Population Health
The study, by McMaster and York universities, examined muscle biopsies of young adults with and without type 1 diabetes who exceed Diabetes Canada's recommended weekly levels for…
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Data from CIHI show that giving birth is the most common reason for…
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This incentive was previously offered to doctors in rural areas. As the shortage of family doctors worsens in Nova Scotia, the province is now offering tuition relief, the Family Medicine Bursary and debt assistance to urban doctors in a bid to…
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A B.C.-based patient advocate spent the last three years speaking about the importance of taking one's health into their owns hands. This follows years of treatment and the discovery of a brain tumour.
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Winnipeg Regional Health Authority's preliminary year-end monthly wait-times report for 2017-18 revealed ER wait times were down 16% compared to the previous year, however, median ER wait times climbed in March for the fifth straight month since…
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L'appareil, d’une valeur de $34,000, a été installé au Service d’urgence de l’établissement pour desservir les communautés de Saint-Quentin, de Kedgwick et des environs. L’appareil apporte à l’établissement une technologie qui surpasse celle de…
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The national #EndPJparalysis campaign aims to get patients out of bed, dressed in their own clothes and moving around in order to speed up their recovery. It also challenges all those who care for…
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The province is investing $2.1 million to create more memory care beds and assist existing care homes. The first of three per diem increases will raise rates to $135 from $127.42 per resident. The increase will be retroactive to Apr. 1 and will…
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A family experience survey from the Health Quality Council of Alberta shows a range of overall satisfaction scores for LTC…
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A report from the Canadian Mental Health Association puts forward the idea that decriminalization should be considered one part of governments'…
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The government plans to hire 25 new medical specialists to fill vacancies, address shortages and tackle workload issues. The additions will include a cardiologist in Saint John and the rest will be up to regional health authorities to decide on…
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Newfoundland and Labrador leads Canada and the U.S. for antibiotics overuse. The province’s health minister is now warning that drug resistance could bring a wave of deaths by infection. John Haggie warns overuse and over-prescribing (as a global…
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French researchers found that mental illnesses ranked second among the causes of disability-adjusted life-years for youths ages five to 14 in the Americas and Europe in 2015, up from third place in 2000. The…
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The leader of the Green Party of New Brunswick and the MLA for Fredericton-South, David Coon, believes city hospitals are operating over capacity with inadequate staffing and blames this on the use of a fiscally-driven healthcare system, rather…