Research shows 20% of older adults who were able to walk before being admitted to hospital were no longer able to walk without assistance upon discharge. They may be referred to rehabilitation services at that point. The program aims to meet those
The N.S. government’s looking for any way to get more people access to care. With physician assistants (PAs) working in emergency care and orthopedics and a new training program in development at Dalhousie University, the health authority is hoping
Focusing more on same-day surgeries is a growing trend in Canada as it frees up in-patient care beds for other acute patients and appeals to patients because they allow them to recover safely at home . As a result of a collaboration between units and
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been a controversial issue since the 1990s, when a major study found an association with higher rates of breast cancer and stroke. Experts now say that study overstated the risks. Researchers reviewed recent
Nearly every participant in a study of a Vancouver safer supply program involving opioid-dispensing machines continued to use illicit drugs but they used less, they experienced fewer overdoses and they reported improvements in health and well-being
Weeks after B.C. made prescription birth control publicly funded, women are flooding healthcare clinics requesting IUDs, leading to waiting times of several months because of a shortage of clinicians available to insert them. The province became the
The U.S. recommendation calls for screening mammograms every two years for women between the ages of 40 and 74. Previously, screening for average-risk patients was recommended beginning at age 50. In Canada, regular screening mammography is only
Fifty-five nurses were hired into the Manitoba government's provincial nursing float pool since its inception late last year, bringing nurses back into the public system to work shifts in rural and northern communities. The pool provides nurses with
The province estimates approximately 4,800 people will benefit from cross-border cancer treatment over the next two years. Starting May 29th, it'll send up to 50 breast and prostate cancer patients per week to one of two clinics in Wash. to receive
The study found cases are expected to soar from 529 million to 1.3 billion by 2050 mostly because there’s no mitigation strategy to tackle or reduce the disease. The growing number of people with diabetes is in part because of rising obesity but also