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Preventing food-borne illnesses
What is one to make of the recent and troubling appearance of infectious and toxin producing bacteria in our North American food supply? It is an illustration how quickly food-borne illnesses can spread and the importance of food safety. How common and how easy is it to contaminate food on an industrial scale? Rob Mancini…
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Initial evidence on the effect of probiotics and maintenance of bowel health and function
Digestive problems, especially for people over the age of 60 may be due to a change in intestinal bacterial colonies or flora. The balance is thus more heavily weighted towards ‘unfriendly’ bacteria, which may make them more susceptible to gastrointestinal infections and bowel conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome. Restoration of the friendly bacteria in…
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Transplanting insulin producing cells or islet cells into people with type 1 diabetes
About 10 to 15 million people around the world have type 1 diabetes and require insulin to make up for the pancreas’ inability to produce enough for the body’s use. In the September 28, 2006 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine researchers from the University of Alberta studied how the clinical outcomes of…
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ER shortages at the Cambridge Memorial Hospital
The Cambridge Memorial Hospital unable to staff its ER, it contracted a private agency to run the department. Med-Emerg of Mississauga specializes in providing temporary medical staff — nurses, pharmacists, doctors, and so on — as it does at 20 hospitals across the province. In Cambridge Memorial’s case, it hired the firm to run the…
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Paying More, Getting Less 2006
When we spoke to Brett Skinner in November 2005, the Fraser Institute reported that based on the most recent five-year trends, Medicare was on pace to consume more than half of total revenues from all sources in 7 of 10 provinces by the year 2022. One year later Mr. Skinner joins us again to review…
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Alberta Mental Health Board launches Mental Health First Aid Canada
Many people have knowledge abot what to do in the face of a medical emergency and can provide some form of first aid. However the same cannot be said for psychiatric care. There continues to be a stigma about mental illness when there should not be and a new and innovative program has been established…
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The Canada Food Guide not based on scientific evidence
Health policy initiatives like the Canada Food Guide should be based on the latest credible research in food science, the public’s dietary habits and choices, and cardiovascular risk among others. In his presentation this past Thursday to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health regarding childhood obesity and Canada’s Food Guide, Dr. Yoni Freedhoff…
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Understanding how Alzheimer Disease develops
As we reported on Sunday House Call in August Scientists from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the Scripps Research Institute reported progress in understanding how aging contributes to the development of Alzheimer Disease. There are many avenues of study and exploration to try to understand the mechanisms behind the expression of the disease.…
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