Health News

• AHS to reverse controversial home care decisions
  Alberta Health Services will reverse their earlier decision to replace home-care services in three Edmonton facilities, said AHS president and CEO Chris Eagle today. […]
• Are e-cigarettes safe to puff?
  As electronic or e-cigarettes grow in popularity, some health advocates want them to be regulated. […]
• Parents in dark about teens tanning, study suggests
  New research into the use of indoor tanning salons by Alberta teenagers suggests their parents are clueless about it. […]
• Mental illness afflicts most of Calgary's homeless, study finds
  A study has found there is an "overwhelmingly high" rate of undiagnosed and untreated psychiatric illness among Calgary's homeless population. […]
• Sexually transmitted oral cancers screened with early blood test
  Antibodies to a high-risk type of a virus that causes mouth and throat cancers when transmitted via oral sex can be detected in blood tests many years before onset of the disease, according to a World Health Organization-led team of researchers. […]