Nearly half of all cancer deaths and more than 40% of cancer cases are attributable to potentially modifiable lifestyle factors, according to a…
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Health in the News
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- NBHC Care Experience
The team came up with a light system on the ceiling outside each room, using them to signal what needs to be done in each room. Purple means the room is clean and ready for the next patient. Orange means the patient is out having X-rays taken.…
- NBHC Sustainability
A report from the Conference Board of Canada forecasts that by 2035, the country will need…
- NBHC Sustainability
The Canadian Association of Physician Assistants published a report card in which it claims only three provinces, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario, are doing…
- NBHC Care Experience
As part of the study, planners mapped out geographic areas based on where people live. It revealed that within Winnipeg, 45% of residents travel outside their…
- NBHC Care Experience
MyCCath is a web-based IT solution for clinicians at the Health Sciences Centre for referring patients to the cardiac catheterization laboratory services. Eastern Health expects the procedure will expedite referrals for procedures at the lab,…
- NBHC Sustainability
Based on report by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, the College of Family Physicians of Canada suggests annual checkups for healthy people aren’t necessary and can often cause…
- NBHC News
The province's health networks found there were over 200 hospitalizations for people between the ages of 12 and 24 over the last five years due to alcohol intoxication. From 2012-2013 to 2016-2017, Horizon Health recorded 186 hospitalizations of…
- NBHC Engagement
New York-based design firm CannonDesign will begin the planning process for the new mental health and addictions campus that will replace Hillsborough Hospital on P.E.I. The province is investing $500,…
- NBHC Population Health
The Human Development Council’s report suggests the province continues to have among the highest youth poverty rates in the country. The report indicates one in five youth are…
- NBHC Population Health
A study commissioned by drug company GSK estimates pain costs the Canadian economy $7.1 billion a year. It determines that the average employee is off work 1.8 days…
- NBHC Engagement
In joining the Choosing Wisely campaign, the Canadian Pharmacists Association compiled a list of six common practices and therapies that may be unnecessary and could potentially harm…
- NBHC Sustainability
A report from the C.D. Howe Institute found Canadians will be forced to pay more taxes in the years to come as the country's…
- NBHC Engagement
Health Canada says stakeholders can offer their input into the federal government's law legalizing cannabis on July 1, 2018. As…
- NBHC Population Health
A report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information determines that in 2016, 21.5 million prescriptions for opioids were…
- NBHC Care Experience
Kaiser Permanente physicians in Southern California were found to have reduced the odds of prescribing an antibiotic for sinusitis by 22% through the use of computer alerts to inform doctors when antibiotics may not be the best course of…