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Health

COVID-19 – Virus case identified at Save-On Foods pharmacy in Columbia Place

March 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

A case of COVID-19 has been identified at the Save-On Foods pharmacy in the Columbia Place Shopping Centre in Sahali, Interior Health announced today (March 26, 2020). In [Continue]

COVID-19 – Local Caremongering volunteering initiative launched

March 26, 2020 // 0 Comments

Submitted by Caremongering-Kamloops: As the threat of COVID-19 loomed, and inspired by a national movement to help, the Facebook group Caremongering – Kamloops was [Continue]

COVID-19 – Essential visit restrictions in effect at all IH sites

March 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

COVID-19 update today (March 23, 2020) from Interior Health: Effective immediately and until further notice, Interior Health is limiting the number of visitors entering all [Continue]

CORONAVIRUS – Fear of a pandemic, or a pandemic of fear?

February 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

By ARNE RUCKERT L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa HELENE CARABIN Université de Montréal, and RONALD LABONTE L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa [Continue]

COMMUNITY – Mustard Seed reopens live-in support program

January 20, 2020 // 0 Comments

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]

HEALTH – We must do more for seniors coming home from hospital

December 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

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]