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Health groups urge Ottawa to save refugee services

The heads of several of Canada’s leading healthcare organizations have written a strongly worded letter to the federal immigration minister, urging him to rescind plans to cut health services to refugees and refugee claimants. “We are extremely concerned over the health impacts that this will have on the most vulnerable members of our society, many of whom will eventually become Canadian citizens,” the letter to Jason Kenney states. It is signed by the heads of eight prominent healthcare groups: Currently, ...

Obama’s Career-Long Electoral Strategy

I would underline that Obama is using a familiar strategy because it’s not really clear that he’s ever had to use any other one. Once he won the Democratic primary… It’s mushroom cloud after mushroom cloud for President Obama.We’ll never see the internal polls, but the externals are awful: Down 8 percent to challenger Mitt Romney in the latest poll, with fewer than 180 days;… more ›› The Department of Health and Human Services last week announced it had awarded ...

Mental health plan unveiled in N.S.

The Nova Scotia government will place more clinicians in schools and assess kids as young as 18 months old as part of a broad mental health strategy aimed at intervening early and reducing wait times for care. Health Minister Maureen MacDonald laid out the province’s first mental health strategy on Wednesday, saying it will provide $5.2 million for various initiatives in the first year. MacDonald stated the focus of the five-year plan will be on identifying potential mental health conditions ...

HIV-prevention pill endorsed by U.S. health officials

The first drug shown to prevent HIV infection won the endorsement of a panel of federal advisers Thursday, clearing the way for a landmark approval in the 30-year fight against the virus that causes AIDS. In a series of votes, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel recommended approval of the daily pill Truvada for healthy people who are at high risk of contracting HIV, including gay and bisexual men and heterosexual couples with one HIV-positive partner.

Edmonton military families to get better health care

The Canadian military and Edmonton Medicentres clinics signed a memorandum Friday making health care more accessible for military families. The ‘Memorandum of Understanding,’ signed by Lt.-Col. John Reiffenstein, Base Commander Area Support Unit Edmonton, and Dan Stannard, vice-president of finance and operations for Edmonton Medicentres clinics, at the Belle Rive Medicentre seeks to provide a better quality of health care to dependants of those in the Canadian Forces. Reiffenstein stated it was time that the families of men and women ...

Construction puts preemie triplets’ health at risk, father says

A LaSalle, Ont., family wants out of its home, located steps away from the Windsor-Essex Parkway construction zone. In a story CBC Windsor reported first, Jeff Gerard and his wife state the health of their 6-month-old triplets depends on it. Their physician states the dust, noise and pollution from the $1.4-billion project puts the babies, who were born 10 weeks early, at increased risk of health and developmental problems. Gerrard stated pile driving is scheduled to happen 250 metres away ...

Americans Aren’t Learning to Like ObamaCare

RECOMMENDED ARTICLES If part or all of the healthcare reform law is thrown out, a central goal of the progressive project will have been dealt a possibly fatal setback. The dream of universal health care — pursued for decades, frustrated again and… more ›› There are plenty of ways to game the upcoming Supreme Court decision on health care reform, and they have all been said: President Obama loses in court, he wins with his base. Or it’s a severe ...

National Aboriginal Health Organization’s funding cut

The federal government, through Health Canada, has cut all funding for the National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO). “We got a call last Wednesday and they told us that our funding of $4.4 million was cut, that what they were doing was protecting the monies that go to regions, to First Nations and Inuit – direct services was being protected and that funding for indirect services like ours was being cut,” stated Simon Brascoupé, NAHO’s chief executive officer. The not-for-profit organization ...

Gingrich’s Center for Health Transformation files for bankruptcy

By Domenico Montanaro, NBC Deputy Political Editor In another black eye for Newt Gingrich, the flagship of what is known in Washington as “Newt, Inc.,” has filed for bankruptcy. In a Chapter 7 filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Northern District of Georgia, The Gingrich Group LLC, doing business as the Center for Health Transformation, filed for bankruptcy Wednesday. (Chapter 7 is “the chapter of the Bankruptcy Code providing for ‘liquidation,’ that is, the sale of a debtor’s nonexempt property ...

Teens’ waistlines help predict health risks

Doctors should use waist measurements when assessing adolescents and adults, Canadian guidelines say. (M. Spencer Green/Associated Press) Using a tape measure and a scale together help predict which teens have potentially hazardous levels of body fat, Canadian researchers have found. The commonly used body mass index is based on someone’s weight and height but it doesn’t tell the difference between lean muscle and fat, or properly distinguish between different body frames, particularly in teens who are growing quickly.