Health

By Larry Jackson Director Communications PrimeLink Lifestyle Association of Canada www.primelink.info You and your immediate family are on your annual vacation somewhere in Canada. That somewhere is not in the province you call home.…

Check visiting hours and restrictions. Call the receptionist or visit the hospital’s website to find out. Do not visit a patient if you are sick. Colds and flu are not welcome at any hospital.

By Dr. Adam Sidenberg Stephanie first came into my office because she was suffering from back pain, and couldn't pick her young son up in her arms without feeling sharp pains. She also complained that she'd had headaches all the time for as…

By Sabine Ehgoetz Sabine Ehgoetz currently lives in Toronto where she works as a freelance journalist, foreign correspondent and translator. In December 2005 she celebrated her first anniversary as a Canadian resident.

The TB Immigration Medical surveillance process is designed to rule out active TB and to prevent active TB disease from developing. One out of 3 people in the world has the TB germ. Ninety percent will not get sick and cannot spread TB to…

By Larry Jackson Director Communications PrimeLink Lifestyle Association of Canada www.primelink.info

By Sandra Fletcher My friend Eli recently celebrated his 50th birthday and all of his friends gathered to commemorate this important event. Eli is HIV positive and when he was diagnosed, back in 1983, we never thought that he would see 30…

by Aruna Papp. MA, ADR, Med Many new Canadians find the health care system in Ontario very confusing. They are told by their friends and relatives that medical care “is all free, no one has to pay the doctor or the hospitals. The government…

“Cancer” is a scary word. When I was a child, my parents never said it out loud. They whispered it behind a hand, or said “the C-word”, as if this superstition would somehow protect us. Superstition is understandable, but it doesn’t save…

Sabine Ehgoetz currently lives in Toronto where she works as a freelance journalist, foreign correspondent and translator. In December 2005 she celebrated her first anniversary as a Canadian resident.