11. Oral Zinc May Cut Colds Length

Oral zinc formulations appear to shorten the duration of adult cold symptoms but mild adverse effects are common according to a metaanalysis Based on an evaluation of 17 trials people who received zinc had a shorter duration of cold symptoms compared with patients given placebo mean difference 8722165 days 95 CI 8722250 to 8722081 Michelle Science MD fr ... Read More

12. Hospitals turn to Internet to fight emergency room wait times

Patients who log on to the website for Calgary s hospitals are offered a surprising choice these days wait times for four emergency departments across the city posted automatically 247 in real time A hospital in the Southern Ontario city of Kitchener has just become the first in that province to launch its own enhanced version of the same idea amid predictions the consumeroriented ... Read More

13. New hospital planned for Diefenbaker Drive

The planned site for the city s new regional hospital was announced from the sixth floor solarium of the aging Moose Jaw Union Hospital on Friday afternoon The new facility expected to be completed in 2015 will be constructed on a 30acre site in Moose Jaw s north end along Diefenbaker Drive just south of the TransCanada Highway Representatives from the provincial health ... Read More

14. SGH misses marks

A crossCanada report on hospital performance indicates Stratford General Hospital was rated quotbelow performance rangequot in 30day mortalities after heart attacks and strokes and 90day readmissions for hip replacement SGH was within the performance range for fiveday inhospital mortalities following major surgery The hospital performed quotabove performance rangequot ... Read More

15. BC First Nation plans private hospital

BCs Westbank First Nation is planning to build a 120million private hospital on its reserve in the Okanagan Chief Robert Louie says the 100bed facility would operate outside Canadas medicare system serving any patient willing to pay for private treatment Louie believes theres a large market of Canadians who are leaving the country for health care who would be will ... Read More

16. Kelownaarea First Nation plans hightech private hospital on band land

KELOWNA BC A British Columbia aboriginal band has plans to build a stateoftheart private hospital on its land overlooking Okanagan Lake just a stones throw from Kelowna BC Band Chief Robert Louie said in an interview with CHBC television that selfgovernment gives his band the right to build the hospital without provincial interference quotWell we cant use the wo ... Read More

17. St Lukes rated among worlds most beautiful hospitals

It s a patient s nightmare Confined to a hospital inhabited by people with the worst health conditions one can ever imagine he becomes witness to a larger metaphor of a malignant diseasethe depressing sight and grueling routine in a cold strained setting This is on top of the patient s infirmity that makes him confront his own mortality Despite this or maybe because ... Read More

18. Be careful in using new information about Canadian hospitals

Thousands of Canadians every day trust their health and in some cases their lives to this country s hospitals These patients and their families deserve as much information as possible about the care they are likely to receive and the challenges they may encounter Such transparency is the essence of an open and accountable healthcare system but Canada has regrettably lagged ... Read More

19. Hospital performance is all over the map

It s long been a truism of the Canadian health care system that where you live determines the kind of care you receive Large hospitals in growing urban centres tend to have more resources and equipment than smaller rural hospitals with remote and ageing populations But a new project tracking the performance of the most of the country s hospitals the first ever publicly released ... Read More

20. Urine Odor Signals UTI in Infants

Reviewed by Zalman S Agus MD Emeritus Professor Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Caputo MA RN BCADM Nurse Planner Badsmelling urine is a good predictor of urinary tract infection UTI in infants better than several other associated predictors researchers found Though malodorous urine did not definitively rule in or out the ... Read More