Health

HEALTH – Gastrointestinal outbreak at RIH, Hillside limits access to 3 wards

January 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

Statement released by Interior Health: Gastrointestinal illness outbreak at Royal Inland Hospital KAMLOOPS – Royal Inland Hospital is currently experiencing a [Continue]

HEALTH CARE – How do we end emergency room madness?

March 4, 2018 // 3 Comments

The simple solution to overcrowding in our hospitals is to allow Canadians to purchase health insurance that covers medically necessary care By LEE HARDING Research Associate [Continue]

FOOD – Grocery stores bulk up on ultra-processed foods that don’t nourish us

February 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

Far too many products in Canada’s stores give us lots of calories but little nutrition. And we have dangerously abandoned cooking and meal-time routines By JEAN-CLAUDE [Continue]

AGING – Why you should talk to your family now about end-of-life wishes

January 27, 2018 // 1 Comment

By SHARON KAASALAINEN and TAMARA SUSSMAN EvidenceNetwork.ca MANY PEOPLE have been faced with having to make critical decisions for family and friends who were at the end of [Continue]

HELPING – A nurse practitioner turns a passion for humanity into a career

January 22, 2018 // 1 Comment

By MICHELE YOUNG Thompson Rivers University She travels thousands of miles to help people in some of the poorest places on the planet. Nurse practitioner Patrice Gordon has [Continue]

KNOX – Not many smokers left to complain about ban by B.C. ferries

January 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

AS OF MONDAY, you may not smoke anywhere on a B.C. Ferries vessel or at its terminals. No smoking tobacco, no smoking e-cigarettes, no smoking dope (yes, the ban includes [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – His and hers health – drugs don’t affect sexes the same way

January 18, 2018 // 0 Comments

MEDICATIONS affect women differently than men but you wouldn’t know it from prescribed drugs. Take the sleep drug Ambien, for example. After the drug had been placed on [Continue]

HEALTH – Run fast as you can, can’t catch a break from the Sugar Tax Man

December 24, 2017 // 1 Comment

By KRIS SIMS B.C. Director, Canadian Taxpayers Federation It’s the sweetest time of the year. Canadians are busy baking Christmas cookies and planning holiday meals to be [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – NP or a GP for me? I’m no longer a healthcare orphan

December 2, 2017 // 1 Comment

After a couple of years wandering the back alleys of the healthcare system like a homeless waif, I had a choice. What to do, what to do? I WANT Terry Lake to pay attention. [Continue]

HEALTH – Junk food advertising bombards teens, putting them at risk

June 6, 2017 // 1 Comment

By TOM WARSHAWSKI and MARY LEWIS EvidenceNetwork.ca VANCOUVER – We shield our children and young teenagers from many things: overt portrayals of sex and violence on TV and [Continue]

HEALTH – Health-care wait times cost patients millions in time, wages

May 31, 2017 // 2 Comments

By BACCHUS BARUA Senior Economist The Fraser Institute FOR MORE than two decades, the Fraser Institute has annually surveyed specialist physicians across Canada to estimate [Continue]

HEALTH – Families are key members of patients’ hospital care teams

May 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

By DONNA THOMSON Caring Connections FAMILY CARE is a key part of hospital care, so let’s start talking about it that way. When a loved one is admitted to hospital, family [Continue]

HEALTH – A caregiver’s perspective: Do you see what I see?

May 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

By VICKIE CAMMACK THE TERM VISIONARY is rarely used to describe natural caregivers. Yet vision is indispensable when we take care. No professional care provider, no matter [Continue]

ELECTION – What the Kamloops-South candidates said about health care

May 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

Health care has been a major issue in the election campaign both locally and provincially. It was discussed extensively at the recent media-sponsored forum, as well as [Continue]