Tag: Health

  • Influenza Data Prompts Immunization Reminder

    Influenza Data Prompts Immunization Reminder

    January 14, 2016 EDMONTON – Following confirmation of five deaths in individuals with influenza and a significant week-over-week increase in reported hospitalizations, Alberta Health Services (AHS) and Alberta Health (AH) are reminding all Albertans who have not yet been immunized against influenza to get immunized promptly. “Influenza is here in Alberta and we’re now seeing…

  • Pain Program makes Emergency Visits Less Intimidating for Children

    Pain Program makes Emergency Visits Less Intimidating for Children

      Cumming School researchers help reduce anxiety and pain for young patients at Alberta Children’s Hospital By Laura Herperger To help emergency department staff to more accurately assess the level of pain, each patient is being given an individual, bookmark-sized pain scale to help them describe their pain. A new initiative is underway to reduce anxiety…

  • Accessories Steal the Show: Claresholm gets special bed, lead aprons for joint X-rays

    Accessories Steal the Show: Claresholm gets special bed, lead aprons for joint X-rays

    Story by Kerri Robins; photo courtesy of Colleen Hansen Sometimes, even in health care, the accessories can be just as important as the item they accessorize. Such is the case for the Claresholm & District Health Foundation, which is buying a specialized X-ray table for patients to lie on during procedures. The $17,900 custom bed…

  • Keep your kids safe while playing hockey

    Keep your kids safe while playing hockey

    With team play and lots of action, hockey is a great way to get your children active. However, it is important to keep safety in mind. Prevent your hockey star from head and eye injuries by making sure that they wear the proper safety equipment. Tips when buying hockey equipment: • Hockey helmets must be…

  • University of Calgary’s Top 10 Changemaker Stories of 2015

    University of Calgary’s Top 10 Changemaker Stories of 2015

      UToday’s most-read stories about people at the University of Calgary making a difference in the community By Lynda Sea When Foghorn the rooster was discovered by Calgary Animal and Bylaw Services, he had lost both his feet due to severe frostbite and couldn’t walk. The account of how three imaginative researchers from the Faculty…

  • The Health Effects and Costs of Air Pollution

    The Health Effects and Costs of Air Pollution

    By Leighton Walter Kille and Denise-Marie Ordway If you’d like to start a lively discussion at a politically diverse gathering, a good way is to bring up the potential benefits and costs of environmental regulations. The current political divide in the United States pretty much guarantees that soon you’ll be hearing supporters defending “common-sense laws”…

  • Dementia Doesn’t Need to Define a Life

    Dementia Doesn’t Need to Define a Life

    Currently 47.5 million people worldwide are living with dementia. This number is more than the total population of Canada. By 2031 it is estimated that 1.4 million Canadians will be living with this disease. Although a diagnosis of dementia can come as a shock not only for the person, but for the family as well,…

  • What Should be Covered by our Health Care System?

      Canada’s free-for-all style of health care is totally unsustainable on the public purse, so choices are going to have to start being made By Brian Rotenberg, Expert Advisor, EvidenceNetwork.ca LONDON, Ont./ Troy Media/ – All across Canada, provincial governments are grappling with ever growing health care demands in the face of shrinking resources. Our enviable publicly…

  • AHS Weekly Wellness News: Getting Enough Vitamin D this Winter

    AHS Weekly Wellness News: Getting Enough Vitamin D this Winter

    Alberta’s winters are long, but the bright side is we get more sunny days year-round than most provinces. Our skin turns that sunlight into vitamin D, which protects our bones and teeth, prevents heart and lung disease, curbs appetite and boosts our immune system and mood, among others. The best way to get it is…

  • AHS: Ensuring our Housing is Safe and Healthy

    AHS: Ensuring our Housing is Safe and Healthy

      Every day, Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) with Alberta Health Services are in the community, working to protect and promote the good health and well-being of Albertans. A large part of their work is focused on ensuring Albertans are living in safe, healthy and hospitable environments. This ranges from rental apartments, to condo buildings and…

  • High Country Wellness Coalition: January Meeting

    High Country Wellness Coalition: January Meeting

      The High Country Wellness Coalition will be meeting on Tuesday, January 12th at noon at the Sheep River Library in Turner Valley. Who are the HCWC? We are a group of dedicated citizens who care about Black Diamond, Turner Valley & surrounding area.  We focus on projects that help build healthy communities by addressing the determinants of…

  • Improved Safety Measures at the Regional Landfill During Wind Events

    Improved Safety Measures at the Regional Landfill During Wind Events

      The Foothill Regional Services Commission (FRSC) announces that effective January 1, 2016 improved safety measures will be in place. When wind speeds reach and exceed 60 km/hr the landfill may be closed at management’s discretion. August 1, 2015, the Landfill brought in a new safety measure to close the landfill to all users, when…

  • Okotoks Recreation Centre Offers Free Demo Classes

    Okotoks Recreation Centre Offers Free Demo Classes

      Free Demo Fitness Classes Register for one of these free sessions to find out if these fitness and wellness classes are right for you! Mon, Jan 11 Kundalini Yoga  10:15am-11:45am Wed, Feb 24 Reflexology 6:15pm-7:15pm Wed, Mar 15 Reiki 6pm-7pm Register online Winter and Spring Programs are Not Registering It’s that time of year…

  • Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Alzheimer’s Disease

    Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Alzheimer’s Disease

    January is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month The Facts Alzheimer’s disease has a major impact on the health of Canadians. About 500,000 Canadians suffer from some type of dementia (mental deterioration), and 60% of these have Alzheimer’s disease. About 60% of people in long-term care facilities have Alzheimer’s disease, and 1 in 5 people with Parkinson’s disease…

  • Foothills HASS Designed to Inspire Students to be Wellness Leaders in their Schools

    Foothills HASS Designed to Inspire Students to be Wellness Leaders in their Schools

      Foothills area schools are collaborating with Ever Active Schools on a Healthy Active School Symposium (HASS), an event to provide Alberta school communities with the knowledge, skills and resources to enhance student wellness, and focus on supporting Student Voice and Action in schools. More than 200 participants – most of them students – will…