This first-person column is the experience of Shannon Filman, who lives in Red Deer, Alta. For more information on CBC’s First Person Stories, please click here See the FAQ. After a few difficult years in my personal life, I decided to pack my bags and move from Regina, where I was born and raised my … Read more
Rain poured down Thursday night outside the Sessions on the River recording studio in Fort Erie, Ont., but it did little to dampen the mood inside as friends, family and community members gathered to pay their respects to Heather Winterstein. Her death four years ago at St. Catharines Hospital raised questions about how Aboriginal people … Read more
Horizon Health Network says it may have found a way to prevent 600 hospitalizations a year and save $8.6 million. The health agency has introduced “diversion teams” in many local hospital emergency departments, Horizon CEO David Arbiio said. These teams help organize care at home or in the community, when appropriate, rather than admitting people … Read more
The ASX healthcare sector bounced back this week, offering little welcome to investors. Photo: Getty Images The ASX Health sector is up 2.66% for the past five days while the broader market is up 2.81% Lomos secures US CLIA waiver for its flagship point-of-care (POC) respiratory test FebriDx Amplia reports four new confirmed responses from … Read more
In an alert, the United Nations’ World Health Organization, WHO, warned that Cuban hospitals are struggling to maintain emergency and critical care services. “Thousands of surgeries have been delayed over the past month and people who need care … have been put at risk by the lack of electricity available for medical equipment,” said WHO … Read more
Emily Sener, Nashville Public Radio and Cara Anthony and Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio Listen: Taking GLP-1? Doctors say don’t forget to move your body and take care of your mental health as well. Severe leg pain forced Jaylon Smart to start taking weight loss injections a year and a half ago. Smart was 285 … Read more