Tag: Health

  • Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Nutritional Supplements – Folic Acid

    Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Nutritional Supplements – Folic Acid

      If you’re pregnant – or even planning to have a baby – you need to know about folic acid. This type of vitamin B is crucial in preventing certain birth defects in the brain and spinal cord called neural tube defects (NTDs). The neural tube starts out as a flat sheet of cells that…

  • Oysters Harvested on BC Coast Subject of Recall

    Oysters Harvested on BC Coast Subject of Recall

    Oysters harvested from British Columbia (BC) coastal waters on or before August 18, 2015 may be unsafe for raw consumption due to Vibrio parahaemolyticus Hazard classification: Class 3 Source of recall: Canadian Food Inspection Agency Distribution: National Extent of the product distribution: Retail  Ottawa, August 18, 2015 – Industry is recalling oysters harvested from BC…

  • Adult Sleepwalking is Serious Condition that Impacts Health-Related Quality of Life

    Adult Sleepwalking is Serious Condition that Impacts Health-Related Quality of Life

      American Academy of Sleep Medicine DARIEN, IL – A (2013) study found that adult sleepwalking is a potentially serious condition that may induce violent behaviors and affect health-related quality of life. “We found a higher frequency of daytime sleepiness, fatigue, insomnia, depressive and anxiety symptoms and altered quality of life in patients with sleepwalking…

  • Talking to Kids About Drugs

    Talking to Kids About Drugs

      As an emergency room doctor and medical toxicologist, I come across the effects of drug and alcohol use every day at my workplace…the hospital. The 18 year old who took Ecstasy for the first time at a nightclub and now thinks she’s having a heart attack. The 21 year old who tried snorting “Oxy”…

  • Charity Offers iPads to Give Children a Voice

    Charity Offers iPads to Give Children a Voice

      For children with speech or motor skill impairments, an iPad provides more than a way to play games or watch movies. With specialized apps that help non-verbal children learn to communicate, iPads can give kids without voices the opportunity to be heard. Take Waverley Leduc for example, an 11-year-old girl living with Rett syndrome.…

  • Joint Investigation Leads to Arrest, Another Fentanyl Warning

    Joint Investigation Leads to Arrest, Another Fentanyl Warning

    A recent investigation into the importation of powdered fentanyl from China has the Calgary Police Service (CPS), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and Alberta Health Services (AHS) coming together to raise awareness once again about the increasing quantity and availability of fentanyl in Alberta. On Tuesday, July 14, 2015, a Border Services Officer at…

  • Canadian Foodgrains Bank Launches New Conservation Agriculture Program

    Canadian Foodgrains Bank Launches New Conservation Agriculture Program

    Canadian Foodgrains Bank will scale up its work in conservation agriculture in three east African countries through a new five-year $18.67 million program. The program, called the Scaling-Up of Conservation Agriculture in East Africa Program, was launched August 5 at Artel Farms in Niverville, Man. It has been made possible by a $14 million grant…

  • Exercise Reduces Cancer Risk in Post-Menopausal Women

    Exercise Reduces Cancer Risk in Post-Menopausal Women

    Five hours of physical activity per week is best: study Story by Kristin Bernhard Five hours of exercise per week can reduce the risk of developing cancer, including breast cancer, in post-menopausal women, according to an Alberta Health Services (AHS) research study. Body fat, abdominal fat and adult weight gain have been associated with increased…

  • AHS Weekly Wellness News: Staying healthy in the heat

    AHS Weekly Wellness News: Staying healthy in the heat

      Most of us look forward to summer weather through the many long months of winter here in Alberta, but when those hot temps finally arrive, it’s important to enjoy safely. To help you master the mercury rising, Alberta Health Services (AHS) encourages you to take these simple steps. When temps are hot: Visit www.albertahealthservices.ca/heat.asp…

  • Dammit, Jim!

    Dammit, Jim!

    Dr. McCoy isn’t the only one with a tricorder By Karen Sherlock Star Trek fans, get ready for sci-fi to collide with reality. Three UAlberta alumni are part of a team that has created a real-life “tricorder” to track the body’s vital signs and diagnose 16 medical conditions. The team is vying for $10 million…

  • Drugs Fool: Fentanyl

    Drugs Fool: Fentanyl

      Fentanyl is often passed off as the new form of OxyContin. Don’t be fooled. Fentanyl is about 100 times more toxic than morphine, heroin, or oxycodone. In 2014 alone, there were more than 100 deaths in Alberta, associated with Fentanyl. In a number of those deaths, the people had many other drugs in their…

  • Canada Public Health Notice – Outbreak of Cyclospora Under Investigation

    Canada Public Health Notice – Outbreak of Cyclospora Under Investigation

    Why you should take note The Public Health Agency of Canada is collaborating with provincial public health partners, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and Health Canada to investigate 83 Canadian cases of Cyclospora infections in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, and Quebec. The source of this outbreak is not yet known, and the Agency and its partners…

  • SRHT Golf 4 Wellness a Rip-snortin’ Good Time!

    SRHT Golf 4 Wellness a Rip-snortin’ Good Time!

      Thank you again to our sponsors and golfers for helping to make the 12th annual Golf 4 Wellness Tournament so successful. We enjoyed beautiful weather, lots of laughs and raised funds that support the Foothills. The money raised this year totalled $39,000 and will go to support the Oilfields Hospital tub room renovations. This…

  • Stay Hydrated with Water

    Stay Hydrated with Water

    Water is essential to life. Getting enough water every day is important for your health and is the best way to quench your thirst. Why do I need water? Our bodies lose water by sweating, breathing and getting rid of waste. If you lose more fluid than you take in, you get dehydrated. Young children…

  • Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Nutritional Supplements – Bone-Building Buddy

    Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Nutritional Supplements – Bone-Building Buddy

    Our bodies need vitamin D to absorb calcium, the major building block of bone. It boosts the body’s ability to absorb calcium by up to 80%. Vitamin D becomes especially important as we get older, when calcium is less efficiently absorbed. Together, calcium and vitamin D can prevent osteoporosis, a condition where bones become thin…