PHASE ONE OF BURNABY HOSPITAL REDEVELOPMENT REACHES MILESTONE
June 25, 2020 SURREY – Burnaby residents are one step closer to a modern, state-of-the-art medical and surgical health care campus at Burnaby Hospital. Three qualified…
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International Day of Yoga- Heartfulness Virtual Event June 20th, 2020
On the occasion of the International Day of Yoga, The Heartfulness Institute is organizing a virtual live event with well-known musicians such as Shankar Mahadevan and Pandit Jasraj along with YogRishi Ramdev Baba and the Global Guide of Heartfulness Kamleshji Patel, also known as Daaji.
Help your kids steer clear of ultra-processed foods
Walking down the street, on our commute to work, watching TV, scrolling through our social media feeds—everywhere we look, there are powerful cues cleverly tempting us to reach for prepared ultra-processed foods. Children are particularly vulnerable.
How processed is your food?
In the past 70 years, calories we eat from ultra-processed foods have doubled from 24 to 54 per cent. That’s not surprising, given they are branded, packaged and marketed so heavily and cleverly.
FreeStyle Libre: A new painless device to check your glucose
More than 3 million Canadians have diabetes; a very common chronic medical condition which requires self management skills. Sugar levels fluctuate depending upon what you eat and what you do.
SFU experts involved in new virtual healthcare initiative
Patients unable to access traditional face to face outpatient programs due to COVID-19 will benefit from a new initiative, Stronger Together: Social Infrastructure for Community Health, announced this week by the Digital Technology Supercluster.
SFU experts involved in new virtual healthcare initiative
Patients unable to access traditional face to face outpatient programs due to COVID-19 will benefit from a new initiative, Stronger Together: Social Infrastructure for Community Health, announced this week by the Digital Technology Supercluster.
Second urgent and primary care centre opens in Surrey
People living in Surrey will now have better access to same-day urgent and primary care with the opening of a second new urgent and primary care centre (UPCC) in Newton.
Terry Gill knows firsthand the impact cancer can have on a family
Last summer, the married father of three was dealing with excruciating back pain and a general uneasiness, which he originally chalked up to nothing more than fatigue. A trip to see his doctor soon sent him to the hospital for blood tests, which was followed by a PET/CT scan. The results were not what Terry was expecting: he was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
TELUS Health enables 26,000 Canadian family doctors to conduct virtual visits with their patients to reduce exposure risk
Canada’s leading health IT company adds patient videoconferencing to its electronic medical records in British Columbia.
