health
Auditor general blasts Indigenous Services Canada for failing to improve essential programs
Indigenous Services Canada is failing to implement six past audits completed between 2015 and 2022, leaving First Nations facing persistent barriers when accessing health and dental care, safe drinking water and emergency services, the federal auditor general says. Source link
New health-care centre opens Tuesday at former Costco in St. John’s
The new centre offers several outpatient services that were relocated from city hospitals. Source link
4 out of 5 teens aren’t getting enough physical activity in Canada
Four out of five teenagers aren’t meeting physical activity recommendations, according to new data from Statistics Canada, and experts say without big changes, physical activity will keep losing out to screens and social media when it comes to teens. Source link
Some Albertans frustrated, Health Link overwhelmed as COVID-19 shots roll out to general public
Some Albertans struggled to book COVID-19 shots as the province’s fall immunization campaign opened to the general public on Monday. Source link
Guidance to feed babies peanuts helped tens of thousands of kids avoid allergies, study finds
U.S. researchers found that peanut allergies in children ages zero to three declined by more than 27 per cent after guidance for high-risk kids was first issued in 2015. Before then, doctors had recommended delaying feeding children peanuts and other foods likely to trigger allergies until age three. Source link
This Montreal hospital preps 360,000 meals per year. Here's how it avoids waste
About 7,000 meals are prepared everyday in the kitchen at the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, or CHUM. But many meals would end in the garbage if it wasn’t for a special program to help those in need. Source link
Health clinic's call for new patients amid doctor shortage draws hundreds
Some people were in line as early as 4 a.m. Saturday after the west-end Ottawa clinic announced it was signing up between 400 and 600 new patients. Source link
Her son died of asthma. Now kids get lessons on surviving smoky skies, in his name
Carter Vigh, 9, died in 2023 after an asthma attack that was made worse by wildfire smoke. His mother. Amber, and the B.C. Lung Foundation collaborated through the Carter’s Project initiative to teach kids about the kids of poor air quality and how to protect themselves. Source link
More pistachio products recalled due to salmonella
More brands of pistachio products are being recalled stemming from a national investigation linking the nuts to salmonella. So far more than 100 linked cases of the illness have been confirmed in Canada. Source link
Change needed in how Manitoba treats sepsis, says man who nearly died from condition
A Winnipeg sepsis survivor says he wants to see Manitoba follow Nova Scotia’s lead and change how it treats the condition that almost killed him nine years ago. Source link