Tag: Health

  • Finding Your Inner Zen

    Finding Your Inner Zen

    Wellness Therapies to Live a Happier and Healthier Life By Nicola Brown In a world overrun with sensational sound bites and knee-jerk reaction headlines, people are becoming a bit jaded with misleading claims of revolutionary crash-course diets, exotic super-foods and fat-busting new workout machines that require just 5 minutes to lean, sculpted abs! We’ve got…

  • NDP And PC MLAs Letting Down Albertans by Blocking Fentanyl Study: Wildrose

    NDP And PC MLAs Letting Down Albertans by Blocking Fentanyl Study: Wildrose

    EDMONTON, AB: NDP and PC members of the Standing Committee on Families and Communities failed to stand up for vulnerable communities across Alberta by voting down a motion to study the province’s opioid and fentanyl crisis, the Wildrose Official Opposition said. The motion, presented by Wildrose MLA Ron Orr, would have set parameters for a…

  • Province Supports Programs to Protect Children

    Province Supports Programs to Protect Children

    Seven community organizations throughout Alberta are receiving funding so survivors of child sexual abuse can get specialized services and the healing supports they need. The Government of Alberta is investing over $1.7 million through the Family and Community Safety Program to strengthen the work being done by Child Advocacy Centres, police services and other community…

  • AHS Weekly Wellness News: Helping your Child Deal with Stress

    AHS Weekly Wellness News: Helping your Child Deal with Stress

    Childhood isn’t all fun and games. Even young children can feel worried and stressed. Stress can come from outside, such as family, friends, and school. It can also come from children themselves. Just like adults, children may expect too much of themselves and then feel stressed when they feel that they have failed. How can…

  • Preparing the Health Workforce for an Aging Population

    Preparing the Health Workforce for an Aging Population

    The health needs of seniors are getting more complicated as people live longer, and we need a workforce that can keep up By Gregory Huyer and Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, EvidenceNetwork.ca OTTAWA, Ont. / Troy Media/ – We know Canada’s population is aging. In 2015, the proportion of seniors surpassed that of youth under 15 for the first…

  • ATB Gran Fondo Highwood Pass and Branch Out Neurological Foundation announce lead start line VIPs

    ATB Gran Fondo Highwood Pass and Branch Out Neurological Foundation announce lead start line VIPs

    Calgary, Alberta – The lead VIPs for the ATB Gran Fondo Highwood Pass have been named! Olympian Shannon Rempel and Allie Jenkins Bennet will kick off the Fondo on July 9, leading the start line of athletes and riders. The highly acclaimed ATB Gran Fondo Highwood Pass (by “TransRockies” Race Series) and Calgary-based “Branch Out”…

  • Time to Rethink Health-Care Policy for the Elderly

    Time to Rethink Health-Care Policy for the Elderly

    We need an integrated system for older adults that increases the quality and continuity of care By Neena Chappell and Marcus Hollander Expert Advisors, EvidenceNetwork.ca WINNIPEG, Man. / Troy Media/ – We need to revisit conventional thinking on health-care services for seniors so the system is sustainable for all Canadians. To do that, we need to overcome…

  • Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Concussion

    Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Concussion

    Mild Traumatic Brain Injury The Facts A concussion is a brain injury of such severity that it alters the way the brain functions for a short period of time. When jarred or shaken, the soft tissue of the brain can move around inside of the skull and knock into the hard bone. Bruising, torn blood…

  • Alberta Grants Raise Awareness About Dangers of Drugs Including Fentanyl

    Alberta Grants Raise Awareness About Dangers of Drugs Including Fentanyl

    The Alberta government is supporting police and their community partners in their efforts to raise awareness about the dangers of drug use. Grants totalling $240,000 are being provided for 17 projects, including: School programs to connect students to cultural activities and increase youth’s awareness around substance abuse, while educating students on prevention and early intervention…

  • Branch Out: Crystal Phillips’ Story

    Branch Out: Crystal Phillips’ Story

  • NDP Defer Wildrose Call for Study on Opioid Crisis: Wildrose

    NDP Defer Wildrose Call for Study on Opioid Crisis: Wildrose

    EDMONTON, AB (June 13, 2016): A Wildrose motion presented to the Standing Committee on Families and Communities to tackle Alberta’s opioid crisis head on was deferred by the NDP majority, the Wildrose Official Opposition said today. The motion sets the parameters of the study to include: Studying the availability and timeliness of access to treatment beds…

  • AHS Weekly Wellness News: Window and Balcony Safety

    AHS Weekly Wellness News: Window and Balcony Safety

    How to protect your children The warm summer breeze is not the only thing an open window invites into your home. Unchecked, that same window can invite unnecessary risks. Open windows and balcony doors are potentially dangerous to curious children. As summer temperatures go up, Alberta Health Services (AHS) EMS and Emergency Departments report an…

  • Calgary Leads Stem-Cell Cure for Kids with Sickle Cell Anemia

    Calgary Leads Stem-Cell Cure for Kids with Sickle Cell Anemia

    Novel therapy grows a new immune system from transplanted family stem cells CALGARY — Alberta Children’s Hospital here is believed to be the only pediatric centre in the world that is successfully using a novel stem cell transplant procedure to cure children of sickle cell anemia. To date, seven girls and two boys with the…

  • Celebrating Graduation and aising awareness of cystic fibrosis from coast to coast

    Celebrating Graduation and aising awareness of cystic fibrosis from coast to coast

    By Richard Cairney (Edmonton) Some students dive straight into the workforce after graduation, some travel to exotic locales to decompress. But Stephane Magnan, who is graduating this spring with a degree in mechanical engineering (biomedical), is cycling across Canada to raise funds and awareness for cystic fibrosis. You wouldn’t know it by looking at him…

  • Groundbreaking of the Southbank Medical Building in Okotoks

    Groundbreaking of the Southbank Medical Building in Okotoks

    The groundbreaking of the Southbank Medical Building was celebrated on Wednesday, May 25. The new state-of-the art- facility will offer physicians, specialists, chiropractic, physiotherapy, massage and pharmacy services. With the addition of these new services, Okotoks and area residents will have more options for the treatments they require. Having the best possible health care available…