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Tips To Help You Self-Advocate In Your Healthcare
I’m sure it’s pretty common information for all of us that when it comes to healthcare issues we must be our own advocates. Healthcare is an area that can get confusing quickly, that tendency to lean...
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Taking a Stand for Mental Health
For those of you who lived through the 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, and before, you probably remember that if you suffered from mental health issues in those times, you were regarded as having something...
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How Do We Make Progress as a Nation? (A Call for Submissions)
Hardly a day passes where there isn’t another story about crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, dismal progress, and people suffering declining lives and accompanying illness and despair deaths....
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Hospitals Must Adapt so Infants Can ‘Room-in’ with Opioid-Dependent Mothers
Mary Malebranche, University of Calgary Opioid use in pregnancy has risen dramatically in recent years, along with the opioid epidemic within the general Canadian population. One study found an...
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Close to the Bone: 3D Printed Implants
— Broken bones are often mended with metal plates or screws, but as Professor Hala Zreiqat points out, metal was never designed to be part of the body. That’s why Zreiqat, head of the Biomaterials...
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Gut Instinct
— With a philosophy of ‘beauty begins in the belly’ Sydney entrepreneur Carla Oates has built a global empire based on powders and potions designed to improve skin and health from the inside out. Her...
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Mesmerising Science: The Franklin Commission and the Modern Clinical Trial
— By Urte Laukaityte Benjamin Franklin, magnetic trees, and erotically-charged séances — Urte Laukaityte on how a craze for sessions of “animal magnetism” in late 18th-century Paris led to the...
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Blood Pressure, One of the Keys to Preventive Healthcare
Blood pressure is the pressure of circulating blood against the walls of blood vessels. It is one of our main vital signs and one of the most commonly monitored variables in all types of medical...
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Sometimes it’s just not enough to heal the body
— By Lee Tunstall The long-promised new Calgary Cancer Centre is finally breaking ground at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary. The $1.4 billion state-of-the-art facility will have 12 radiation...
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Leadership Through Serving With Anton Gunn
— From growing up in a military family to working with five U.S. presidents, Anton Gunn has his finger on the pulse of the leadership space. A former college football star who was raised as a leader...
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Warren for the People
Elizabeth Warren has exhibited a refreshing honesty and willingness to answer questions. It might be because she is prepared for almost anything. She has an almost preternatural understanding of policy...
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Fitbit and Singapore: Massive Experiences in the Use of Wearables
Reuters has published details of an agreement between Fitbit, the wearable health metrics pioneer, and the Singapore government, to set up a health program involving up to a million who would receive...
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Mobile App Technologies Improving Healthcare
Healthcare is one of the most dynamic segments that have evolved rapidly over time. These advancements were not restricted to updated medicines and treatment procedures only. A lot of progressions has...
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Women’s Work Across Every Aspect of Healthcare is Largely Invisible
— By Ivy Lynn Bourgeault Sometimes an issue can be so pervasive that it is rendered nearly invisible. Take for instance the gender of the health workforce. Women comprise 82 per cent of health workers...
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Healthcare Reform
— By Matthew Shaw The United States healthcare debate is, of course, not just about access to doctors and treatments, but about how the U.S. sees itself: as a land of freedom, but also personal...
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It’s Time for Innovation in Public Healthcare
— By Melanie Bechard and Ali Damji On November 18, 2019, the Supreme Court of British Columbia will begin to hear closing arguments in a case that will decide the future of Canada’s healthcare system....
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When All You Want To Do Is Pull the Covers Over Your Head, Try These Ideas,...
My mind was spinning with content I wanted to get written, yet I’d been staring at my computer for more than an hour. I couldn’t figure out what to type next no matter how hard I tried to push the...
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Reinventing the Blood Test
— By Nigel Bowen When John Kelly took part in a traditional rite of passage for the Irish – a year-long backpacking trip around Australia – he had no idea that a quarter of a century later he’d be...
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A Killer Virus and a Clueless World
Every year the developed nations, notably the USA and Russia, spend trillions of dollars procuring more arms for their growing arsenal; more tanks, more planes, submarines, and more WMD but hardly...
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Dispatches from the Western Front: The System
New Normal Last Monday night, I went to bed early, my breathing not at 100%. I was midway through a lower respiratory infection and had been coughing up junk days prior. All of this had stirred up my...
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