Cord blood banking in Canada - Healthy Debate
WEBNov 14, 2013 · Private or ‘family banks’. There are nine private, or ‘family’ banks across Canada that facilitate the collection and storage of cord blood for the exclusive use of patients and their families. This comes at a cost. Most private banks charge about $1000 for the initial cord blood extraction and assessment, and about $100 per year for ...
‘This is a place of healing’: The power of a sweat-lodge ceremony
WEBApr 4, 2022 · The accompanying prayer and healing ceremony are a purification and balance of the body, mind, spirit, and emotions, Hwiemtun explains. Hwiemtun inherited his role as a sweat lodge keeper from his Lakota uncle Melvin more than 40 years ago. In the lodge, remade with fresh boughs every spring, participants sit …
When bread becomes difficult to swallow. - Healthy Debate
WEBJun 8, 2020 · Patients with EoE can have a number of symptoms such as trouble swallowing, painful swallowing, feeling like food gets stuck, abdominal pain, throwing up and more, all of which have the potential to severely impact patients’ quality of life. Certain foods – bread, or meat for example – can make these symptoms worse.
Stephanie Keeling - Healthy Debate
WEBMar 2, 2022 · Stephanie Keeling is a rheumatologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta. She is currently a participant in the Certificate in Health Impact program at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, …
Palliative care can’t wait: what I wish I’d known as my wife was dying
WEBJul 5, 2017 · But a little foreknowledge could have alleviated some of the suffering of those last few days, both Suzanne’s and my own. Paul Adams’ wife, Suzanne Szukits, a Canadian diplomat, died last September at the age of 56. My wife Suzanne had done everything she could to prepare for her death. But without access to …
and that’s a mixed blessing - Healthy Debate
WEBApr 9, 2020 · Our hospital ward is only half full. We have not consistently seen, in more than a decade of training and practice, so few patients in hospital as in the last two weeks. And we are not alone – this experience is being shared by our colleagues across the province. Hospital occupancy in Ontario is just 77 per cent, down from 97 per cent a year ago.
Waiting for long-term care in Ontario - Healthy Debate
WEBMar 16, 2011 · For direct transfer from hospital to long-term care, the average wait time is 50 days. People waiting in hospital tend to have higher needs and are encouraged to take the first available long-term care bed. For people waiting in the community, the wait time is almost 6 months. A study conducted in Toronto in 2007-2008 found that about 1 in 5 ...
‘Transformation’ in health care depends on leaders’ people skills
WEBMar 24, 2022 · This month’s Top Three focuses on the issue of leadership and transformation. We regularly use the term “transformation” to describe what needs to happen to health care. Many of the demands emerge in discrete elements of the health-care system: i.e., digital transformation; transformation of the long-term care system; transformation of mental health service delivery; public health ...
Is Ontario’s reliance on donations to fund hospital infrastructure …
WEBFeb 19, 2015 · Relying on philanthropy to fund public goods simply means there is a gap in public funding. This is a failure of government at multiple levels to deploy the necessary financial resources to mobilize the “real resources” (nurses, doctors, technology etc) in the economy needed to adequately provide a public good (healthcare) for public purpose.
What is Healthy Debate? - Healthy Debate
WEBFeb 16, 2011 · Healthy Debate attempts to fill this gap by making every effort to provide unbiased information that will lead to thoughtful deliberation and informed opinions. We hope that accessible information about a wide variety of issues in health care will prove interesting and useful to both the general public and health care workers, and that by ...