COMMUNITY – Mustard Seed reopens live-in support program
The Mustard Seed Kamloops has reopened a live-in support program, a 17-bed Men’s Sober Living Centre at the Outreach Centre at 181 West Victoria Street. The Centre will [Continue]
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HEALTH – We must do more for seniors coming home from hospital
By RUTA VALAITIS and MAUREEN MARKLE-REID McMaster University DESPITE HAVING DIABETES and arthritis, Verne was a thriving independent 72-year-old who lived at home with his [Continue]
HEALTH – Gastrointestinal outbreak at RIH, Hillside limits access to 3 wards
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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]
