Report links fetal exposure to diabetes with heart disease
A new report from the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba has found that fetal exposure to diabetes may be linked to heart disease in…
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Video games are the future of telerehabilitation
The rehabilitation and physical therapy process is difficult for long-term patients. Appointments can number in the hundreds and the cost of care is often steep…
Misleading public health propaganda must be stopped
The development of vaccines has helped bring medicine into the modern age. The risk of contracting diseases such as smallpox and polio has essentially been eradicated with the help of vaccines.
Manitoba nurses have ample reason to strike
Particularly at the Health Sciences Centre hospital, nurses are facing serious issues that are making an already difficult job more difficult.
Building your alternative career in healthcare
Let’s explore some health occupations you might like to consider beyond medicine and registered nursing.
Mandatory vaccines the answer to growing global issue
The World Health Organization recently released a list of the top 10 threats to global health in 2019. Among the list of diseases like Ebola virus, HIV and a global influenza pandemic is the hesitancy for parents to vaccinate children.
U of M community remembers residential school survivors
Students across Canada wore orange on Friday in remembrance and to honour the scores of children who attended residential schools. Orange Shirt Day is a…
Canadian legislators lagging on public health
A Canada-wide ban on partially hydrogenated oils, the main source of industry-produced trans fats, went into effect Sept. 7. The ban is long overdue, having…
Doug Ford, beer and working-class politics
Premier Doug Ford’s spectacular victory in Ontario’s provincial election has ushered in a new era of Progressive Conservative politics. While Ford’s win is in part…
Kinew criticizes opening of for-profit clinic
Manitoba’s NDP is criticizing of the opening of Prota clinic, a private, for-profit medical testing facility in Winnipeg. In a letter dated Jan. 3, Manitoba…