Ontario Lung Association to Ontario’s workforce: Could your workplace be making you sick?
May 1, 2012 No Comment
TORONTO, April 30, 2012 /CNW/ – Many Ontario workers are at risk of developing work-related asthma and may not know it: industrial bakers, healthcare professionals and workers in the hair, nail and beauty industry to name a few. With work-related asthma being the most common on-the-job lung disease, the Ontario Lung Association is encouraging individuals [...]
Continue reading …Canada Speaks 2012: New Report Reveals Canadians Empathetic Towards Those Suffering From Mental Illness & Addiction
May 1, 2012 No Comment
Results from national opinion poll indicate public wants to see more done for those affected TORONTO, May 1, 2012 /CNW/ – For the second consecutive year, The Salvation Army is announcing May as Dignity Month, and is releasing a report, “Canada Speaks 2012: Mental Health, Addictions and the Roots of Poverty.” The report reveals perceptions [...]
Continue reading …TORONTO, May 1, 2012 /CNW/ – Did you know that May 1st is Doctors’ Day in Ontario? The Ontario Medical Association (OMA) is encouraging patients across the province to celebrate with us by sharing a positive experience they have had with their doctor. Ontario’s doctors treat more than 400,000 patients’ every day and these interactions [...]
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KJ Mullins-Toronto:Three decades ago cancer was a whispered disease. Today we discuss the illness freely. Mental health is today’s cancer, still hiding behind barriers of stigma. At Dundas Square in Toronto a wall of buttons is a step in taking down those barriers, one feeling at a time. Seven million people a year deal with [...]
Continue reading …Over 900,000 patients still don’t have a family physician: Ontario’s doctors
April 27, 2012 No Comment
Ontario still facing a shortage of over 1,000 doctors “We’ve clearly made some progress at keeping patients out of the emergency room. But it’s disappointing that the government is prepared to throw it all away by cutting over $1 billion in programs and fees. Ontario needs more doctors, not less. Fee cuts and unilateral action [...]
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TORONTO, April 27, 2012 /CNW/ – Researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) led a study discovering a gene for a new form of intellectual disability, as well as how it likely affects cognitive development by disrupting neuron functioning. CAMH Senior Scientist Dr. John Vincent and his team found a mutation in [...]
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Wear a Daffodil Pin to Show Support for People with Cancer TORONTO, April 27, 2012 /CNW/ – Today Sharon Ruth will be proudly wearing a daffodil pin to support her daughter Colleen, a cancer survivor. In 2003, six-year-old Colleen was diagnosed with leukemia, but now she is an active, healthy 15-year-old who says, “cancer motivated [...]
Continue reading …The Melanoma Network of Canada Urges Ontario Government to Support Skin Cancer Prevention Act
April 27, 2012 No Comment
~ Swift action is needed to prevent the deadliest form of skin cancer ~ TORONTO, April 27, 2012 /CNW/ – The Melanoma Network of Canada (MNC) calls on all Ontario MPPs to support the Skin Cancer Prevention Act, 2012, just re-introduced by France Gélinas, MPP, Nickel Belt, in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. If passed, [...]
Continue reading …KJ Mullins-Toronto: The media shows us the way to beauty is by having a glowing tan but that glow can come at a deadly cost. There has been a 75 percent increase of risk for melanoma for those under the age of 35 from using commercial tanning units. Right now in Ontario parents have to [...]
Continue reading …Healthcare Professionals Recognized for Exceptional and Compassionate Patient Care
April 26, 2012 No Comment
Cancer Care Ontario presents Sixth Annual Human Touch Awards TORONTO, April 26, 2012 /CNW/ – Today, Cancer Care Ontario presents its sixth annual Human Touch Awards to honour front-line cancer care professionals from across the province, for providing exceptional and compassionate care to cancer patients. “All of us know someone who has had an experience [...]
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