The Indigenous cafe using native cuisine to help its chefs fight addiction
“We’re trying to find ways to combat diet-related diseases among the people. A lot of us are related to people who have diabetes, hypertension. We want to reach out to more of the people and say, ‘Come buy your food here. It’s right here, locally grown, and this is way better than what we have in the stores.’”
– Ciara Minjarez, educational outreach coordinator
Some surgeries postponed in N.W.T. as 1 of 2 operating rooms set to close until October
(By CBC News · Yellowknife, NT - July 14, 2022 - Used with Permission) - Some surgeries in the N.W.T. will be postponed as one of the...
First Nations people in remote areas miss out on disability services due to lack of support, inquiry hears
The royal commission has been examining the difficulties First Nations people with disabilities living in remote and regional parts of the country have with accessing basic care and services.
Canada resuming mandatory random COVID-19 testing for air travellers
A little more than a month after pausing the measure, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) announced Thursday it will be re-implementing random testing for fully vaccinated air travellers arriving into the country at four major Canadian airports: Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto.
Senate report calls for law criminalizing forced or coerced sterilization
The Senate human rights committee began studying the issue back in 2019 and found that — far from being a problem of the distant past — forced and coerced sterilization was still taking place in Canada and Indigenous women were not the only people affected.
Crippling health care staff shortage now top priority for N.W.T. health board
Julie Green, the N.W.T. health minister, in the CBC News studio in Yellowknife. Green said Thursday that her department is “robbing Peter to pay Paul” by pulling health staff from other areas to ensure emergency care is still available amidst a worker shortage. (Emma Grunwald/ CBC)
Nursing shortage driven by understaffed hospitals nationwide
“We have to fix the workplace in our healthcare system right now, it’s an urgent issue,”
– Linda Silas, president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses Union (CFNU)
Each COVID-19 Reinfection Increases Health Risks
People who get reinfected with the virus that causes COVID-19 have more health risks with each round of reinfection, a large national database study reveals. Researchers saw worse health effects during active infection, but some symptoms lasted as long as 6 months, suggesting a direct link between reinfection and long COVID.
2 Reasons You Might Want To Reconsider Your Gummy Multivitamin
“Gummies are an incomplete, inefficient, and sugar-laden way to approach a multivitamin. While I certainly think well-designed gummies can be useful for certain complexes, as well as for singular nutrients or botanicals, for a multi, they’re genuinely lacking.”
– Ashley Jordan Ferira, Ph.D., RDN
Biggest Weight Gain Now Comes Early in Adulthood
More than half of Americans in the representative sample had gained 5% or more body weight during a 10-year period. More than one-third of Americans had gained 10% or more body weight. And nearly one-fifth had gained 20% or more body weight.