The province is providing an additional 200,000 to Westminster House Society to support several of their programs, including treatment and recovery for youth, trauma-informed gender-specific…
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The study found that two in five adults with ADHD reported almost daily happiness or life satisfaction in the past month, freedom from mental illness in the previous year…
The report brings attention to mental health challenges faced by over 10,000 youth in the province and offers actions at the grassroots level. The…
The Diabetes Self-Management Health Coaching Program connects participants with a volunteer health coach once a week by telephone for three months. Participants work with their assigned health coach to learn and develop skills to manage their…
The provincial government is investing $1.2 million dollars to create additional peer-assisted care teams, also known as PACTs, wich made up of…
The study is providing more insight into the degree to which lockdowns and…
The pandemic drove an increased need for patients to connect with providers in new ways. As such, USask was awarded $150,000 by the Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation to create a roadmap for delivering integrated and patient-centred virtual…
The program"s making powdered fentanyl available by paid prescription in Vancouver. The thinking is that a safe and consistent supply removes the need to interact with the criminal drug world which brings stability to the patient's life. The…
The $3.46 million in short-term stabilization funding will maintain five walk-in medical clinics in Greater Victoria. The province says the funding will keep the clinics operating while it works to find a long-term solution to southern Vancouver…
The Talk Tobacco program is now offering culturally-appropriate support for quitting smoking, vaping and commercial tobacco use to Indigenous people and communities in B.C. The program…
The investment will be used to expand UNB’s master of nursing-nurse practitioner program from 10 seats to 20 and add a specialized training course on mental health for nursing undergrads. The expansion of the NP program will begin in the fall of…
In the world’s largest study of its type, the International Childhood Cardiovascular Consortium found blood pressure, cholesterol, body mass index, triglycerides and smoking in…
The study investigated vaccine confidence uptake among people who use drugs in Vancouver neighbourhoods and found that as of the end of Jan., 64% reported being fully vaccinated, 9% also received a booster dose, while 16% were unvaccinated. In…
The report provides insights into how racialized women are coping two years into the pandemic and how their lives have changed. It shows racialized women struggled the most to recover from the pandemic's effects and posits that mental health and…
Government messaging about the state of the COVID-19 pandemic may stymie uptake of fourth vaccine doses, some experts say, as provinces lay out plans to expand eligibility for the shots to millions more Canadians. The fourth-dose rollout could…
The Anesthesia Care Team (ACT) model aims to reduce surgical wait times by drawing upon the skills of respiratory therapists (RT). AHS claims having a RT perform certain tasks traditionally performed by an anesthesiologist allows…