Fifteen healthcare practitioners in the Belleville, Ont. area are taking part in an 18-month trial to determine if social prescribing is beneficial to individuals with depression, anxiety and loneliness. Similar to a program in Montreal in which
Expectant mothers in the Interior Health region of B.C. will have access to the SmartMom program. Prenatal education and support can be delivered to the patients' cellphones via text messages, with the prompts tailored for individual circumstances
The B.C. government says there's no province-wide mental health resource available to post-secondary students, which is why it plans to introduce a virtual counselling, information and referral service that'll be available 24/7. The program will
The executive director for the Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs says access to treatments for opioid and other forms of addiction is largely predicated on where a person lives. He explains that supervised consumption sites only exist in
The aging population, along with advances in medical care, means people are living longer with chronic conditions. This creates a growing need for the healthcare workforce to have expertise in serious illness care, including clinical expertise in
The National Health Service's proposals focus on reducing never events and improving the safety of patients with mental health issues. They include a proposal for types of avoidable harm to be halved over the next five years in medication errors and
A study led by Dalhousie University found that between 1997 and 2015, First Nations children were more likely to require neonatal intensive care and had higher incidences of headaches, dental problems and throat and ear infections. The data also
Grace Losier resigned as chair of the board of Horizon Health Network. The Liberal-appointed chair says she stepped down at the request of Health Minister Ted Flemming, and that someone working for Flemming had given her the choice of resigning or
While the Public Health Agency of Canada publishes statistics on the number of individuals who suffer fatal overdoses as a result of opioids, some physicians in Vancouver say there are no comparable data for people who suffer brain damage from using
The U.K.'s Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is calling on obesity to be officially recognized as a chronic disease in order to address it more effectively. It issued a call for the government and the broader health sector to recognize obesity as a