Health

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]