Tag: Health

  • Dr. David Swann Proposes 5 Point Plan to Fix Healthcare

    Dr. David Swann Proposes 5 Point Plan to Fix Healthcare

    EDMONTON, AB – (This week) Alberta Liberal Leader David Swann announced a five-point plan to fix health care. The Liberal plan is specifically designed to fix the health care system’s most pressing problems: EXPAND HOME CARE AND LONG-TERM CARE Problem: Without access to home care and long-term care, many seniors turn to hospital emergency rooms…

  • Alberta Veterinary Medical Association Pet Importation Warning: Canine Influenza (H3N2)

    Alberta Veterinary Medical Association Pet Importation Warning: Canine Influenza (H3N2)

      A strain of canine influenza has recently been spreading in parts of the United States including Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and New York State. To control the spread of this infection and keep our animals safe, we request that you do not import animals from these areas until the infection has subsided. While H3N2 is…

  • Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: The Laser’s Edge

    Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: The Laser’s Edge

    For more than 2 decades, laser eye surgery has offered many Canadians a chance to walk away from their glasses and contact lenses. Is it right for you? Laser eye surgery can correct common vision problems such as nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia), and astigmatism (where an irregular shape of the cornea [the front surface of…

  • High River Fire Hall currently not accepting paint, household chemical drop offs

    High River Fire Hall currently not accepting paint, household chemical drop offs

      High River, AB: Due to a recent changes at the Foothills Regional Landfill, pick up of household hazardous waste (HHW) from the member communities in the Foothills Regional Services Commission (FRSC) has been discontinued. As a result of these changes, the High River Fire Hall cannot receive drop offs of HHW such as paint…

  • No Bones About It: Bones Are Unsafe for Your Dog

    No Bones About It: Bones Are Unsafe for Your Dog

      *There has been more activity on social media sites about dogs becoming ill after consuming a “ham bone” dog treat. The following is a warning from the FDA.* The idea that it’s natural for dogs to chew on bones is a popular one. However, it’s a dangerous practice and can cause serious injury to…

  • 10 Tips for Emergency Preparedness For Horse Professionals

    10 Tips for Emergency Preparedness For Horse Professionals

    By Chad Mendell www.equestrianprofessional.com … When disasters strike, having a plan and being prepared could mean the difference between life and death for both horses and humans. In a recent EquestrianProfessional.com webinar on disaster preparedness, Dr. Roberta Dwyer, a professor at the University of Kentucky’s Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center and editor of Equine Disease…

  • Health Canada Proposes New Measures to Address Antimicrobial Resistance

    Health Canada Proposes New Measures to Address Antimicrobial Resistance

    OTTAWA, April 17, 2015 /CNW/ – Health Canada intends to propose new measures and strengthen regulations to encourage prudent use of antimicrobial drugs used in food-producing animals, particularly drugs that are considered medically important.  This effort is important to minimize the global emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and conserve the effectiveness of available antimicrobials. …

  • AHS Weekly Wellness News: The Big Burn

    AHS Weekly Wellness News: The Big Burn

    Understand the risks of indoor tanning Did you know that approximately one in every three new cases of cancer diagnosed in Alberta this year will be skin cancer? And did you know that indoor tanning just once under the age of 35 can increase the risk of the deadliest form of skin cancer (melanoma) by…

  • Health Canada Reminds Canadian Pet Owners to Carefully Follow Directions on Flea and Tick Product Labels

    Health Canada Reminds Canadian Pet Owners to Carefully Follow Directions on Flea and Tick Product Labels

    Health Canada continues to receive reports of cats and dogs becoming ill from flea and tick treatments. As flea and tick season approaches, Health Canada would like to remind Canadians about how to safely use these pesticide products on family pets, especially those applied directly to the pets’ skin. Improper use of these products can…

  • Organ Donation Works

    Organ Donation Works

      National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week: April 18 to April 25 Story by Devon Jolie Organ donation saved Kristy Thackeray’s life when she was just 13. Years later, it would save her daughter’s life, too. Diagnosed with restrictive cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the heart turns fatty and fibrous, making it hard to…

  • Children’s car seats and booster seats: How long are they safe?

    Children’s car seats and booster seats: How long are they safe?

      All children’s car seats and booster seats sold in Canada have an expiry or useful life date on them, even though this is not required by regulation. Manufacturers do this to inform current owners and prospective buyers of the potential risks of using car seats and booster seats that may be missing important parts,…

  • More Than a Breath Mint!

    More Than a Breath Mint!

      Calgary – Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is practical and realistic training, which strengthens community safety and preparedness, through increased civic participation. Community residents who become CERT certified are equipped and ready to react not only with heart but with their head. Having basic emergency knowledge and practical training provides a safer response for…

  • Standing Up For Albertans: Wildrose Would Prioritize High Need Long-Term Care Spaces Across the Province

    Standing Up For Albertans: Wildrose Would Prioritize High Need Long-Term Care Spaces Across the Province

      FORT McMURRAY, AB – As part of Standing Up for Patient-Centred Seniors Care, the Wildrose would put an end to PC broken promises and prioritize high need seniors long-term care nursing spaces across the province, Wildrose Leader Brian Jean announced today. “The Wildrose is dedicated to standing up for patient-centred seniors care, this means…

  • AHS Weekly Wellness News: Advance Care Planning Day, April 16, 2015

    AHS Weekly Wellness News: Advance Care Planning Day, April 16, 2015

      Conversations matter: talk about your wishes and health care values If something happened to you and you couldn’t speak for yourself, what type of care would you want? Do your loved ones know? None of us know what tomorrow might bring, or know how our health will be in the future. Planning today makes…

  • Capital Plan Boosts Health Facility Construction, Maintenance in Calgary and Southern Alberta

    Capital Plan Boosts Health Facility Construction, Maintenance in Calgary and Southern Alberta

    Alberta’s five-year capital plan significantly increases investment in health facilities to meet Albertans’ needs in Calgary and southern Alberta The Alberta government has budgeted $3.4 billion for health facilities over the next five years, including $653 million for maintenance and renewal, and $2.7 billion for ongoing and new major construction projects across the province. Maintenance…