Reading Time: 2 minutes Athletic facility could provide space for at least 100 beds during COVID-19 pandemic if needed
Tag: Alberta healthcare
Pandemic exposes flaws in our health-care system
Reading Time: 4 minutes Competition and entrepreneurship allow medicare to budget wisely and patients to get the attention they deserve
Alberta sees a record number of preventable syphilis infections
Reading Time: 4 minutes Northern Alberta clinics try out Canadian-made dual syphilis and HIV tests in effort to provide faster diagnosis and treatment
‘Lungs in a box’ could ease organ shortage
Reading Time: 4 minutes Donated lungs viable for up to six times longer than storing them in ice before transplant
Twenty per cent hike in flu vaccinations ambitious but attainable
Reading Time: 4 minutes U of A professor says COVID-19 crisis has provided much-needed public education in how vaccines can prevent deadly viruses
Worse birth outcomes, higher pregnancy risk in poorest rural regions
Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta researchers identify gradients of risk for preterm births, small and large size at birth, smoking and drug use by mothers
Researchers work to simplify COVID-19 recommendations
Reading Time: 3 minutes U of A designer, emergency room doctor work on award-winning projects that show how to stop the spread
Pink eye may be primary symptom of COVID-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ophthalmologists encouraged to take extra precautions while working with patients who have conjunctivitis
Alberta should seek more autonomy in health care
Reading Time: 4 minutes Welfare reform in the 1990s provides a starting point for reforming health care today
Alberta’s vaping bill fails to protect children, youth
Reading Time: 3 minutes The industry will now be popping champagne: no Alberta nicotine cap, no flavour ban