Bruce Ward doesn't get it. As Ottawans bask in their "winter lite" weather, Winnipeg just skated by them into the record book. With those exceedingly misleading billboards appearing with the 20th anniversary of decriminalizing abortion, it is good to hear more talk about reproductive health issues. I find it interesting that the topic of abortion is still a social taboo. It's not that abortion has become a non-issue. As one of the multitudes who fought to strike down the discriminatory legal barriers to abortion in the 1980s, I am appalled that so many women and girls in Canada still don't have access to this essential medical procedure. According to "Reality Check," a report issued by Canadian for Choice in 2006, abortions are available in only one of every six Canadian hospitals. Wome...
...Women in the north and outlying regions are the worst off -- most hospital abortion servic...
In May, the Alberta government announced that it would slash the number of health regions from nine to one and in July, it followed through, firing a dozen highly paid CEOs and consolidating power into a single health "superboard." McFadyen also keyed in on that particular policy at the Brandon hospital, which forces moms of premature babies to either rent rooms at the Nurses' Residence or breastfeed in public areas, as an example of why power needs to be taken away from administrators and handed to front-line staff.
The Globe and Mail reported yesterday that Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has mapped out a radical change that would tackle health costs by tailoring hospital budgets to match the size and age of the communities they serve. The Ontario Hospital Association said applying the plan to smaller hospitals in small towns and rural communities would be disastrous, because it would actually widen the gap between the quality of care offered in rural areas versus urban facilities.
... would divert more money to hospitals in regions where the population is growing and aging. It woul...
The hippocampus and surrounding regions of the medial temporal lobe play a central role in all neuropsychological theories of memory. It is still a matter of debate, however, how best to characterise the functions of these regions, the hippocampus in particular. In this article, I examine the proposal that the hippocampus is a "stupid" module whose specific domain is consciously apprehended information. A number of interesting consequences for the organisation of memory and the brain follow from this proposal and the assumptions it entails. These, in turn, have important implications for neuropsychological theories of recent and remote episodic, semantic, and spatial memory and for the functions that episodic memory may serve in perception, comprehension, planning, imagination, and prob...
... to the psychology department at Baycrest Hospital, and in 1989, by Don Stuss to the newly created Ro...
Building a medical school in Brandon is not only great news for these regions, but also for Winnipeg itself. Many people have experienced first-hand that the health system in Winnipeg is overloaded. This results in delays for treatment and, while the wait times may be decreasing, they are still much longer than need be. Every time you wait in the system, for an appointment, to be seen in the waiting room in an emergency department, for surgery or for a diagnostic test, you wait longer because of the problems in rural areas and in the north. A lack of locally trained doctors willing to stay in under-serviced areas pushes the workload into Winnipeg. Perhaps 10 per cent of the beds in Winnipeg are occupied at any one time with rural patients, resulting in further delays in admission for el...
... surgery and keeping patients out of hospital as there is often no bed for them. Brandon Univers...
... than in the medium-size metropolitan regions; core/inner city densities peak before dropping of... capitol, provincial legislature or major hospital complex. These nineteen were the exceptions rather...
...Sixty- five patients were hospitalized, 27 developed haemolytic uremic syndrome (a severe... organizations from several countries and regions--Australia (2), Europe, Germany, the Netherlands, ...
The increase in the number of cases -- which has far outpaced Manitoba's growth over the past two decades -- has neurologists and the Parkinson's Society of Manitoba warning of the demand for more resources, in terms of doctors and nurses trained to deal with the disease, pharmacare, hospital costs, home care and other social services. Although the precise cause of Parkinson's is unknown, researchers believe it's a combination of genetics and an environmental trigger. Since some researchers believe chemicals used in agriculture could be one of those triggers, the large number cases in southwestern Manitoba proved intriguing to the study's authors. "Previous studies report higher prevalence in rural rather than in urban areas. One hypothesis is greater exposure to environmental contamina...
..., such as pesticides, in rural regions," they wrote. Health Minister Theresa Oswald met w...
Because the second wave of the pandemic could be more severe than the first, Brandon Regional Health Authority CEO Carmel Olson said the hospital is looking at its resources in place to deal with severely ill people such as its ICU capacity and its capacity to serve the needs of the surrounding regions as well.
A sampling: " 'I did some gardening.' 'I delivered some groceries.' 'It was a hot day so we delivered Slurpees to a hospital ward where there was no air-conditioning.' [Leisa Miness] said taking part also helped her. "Absolutely... it's the old saying: it only takes one person to change the world." Other regions also want to do it," he said. "We did it because there's a very direct connection to people's sense of mental health."
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