Daily Media Digest October 2, 2018

Globalnews.ca
“Alberta Health Services recommends children under nine years old getting an influenza vaccine for the first time receive two doses of vaccine.”
TAGS: flu season, immunization

 

CBC.ca
“As pressure mounts on Alberta Health Services to provide a life-saving heart treatment in central Alberta, doctors in the southern part of the province …”
TAGS: heart treatments, access to treatment, cardiologists

 

Canada NewsWire (press release)
“This week, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, highlighted Canadian achievements in science on the world stage while …”
TAGS: international collaboration, science, artificial intelligence, evidence-based policy, Kirsty Duncan

 

Hill Times
“By making frailty a priority in health care and social policy, and enabling frail Canadians to remain as independent as possible, governments, the …”
TAGS: Frailty, healthy aging, health care

 

National Post
“This is pretty much the gold standard for the treatment of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia — which currently affect more than 500,000 people …”
TAGS: dementia, treatment, leisure

 

Globalnews.ca
“After more than a year of negotiating a new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canada, the U.S. and Mexico have finally inked a …”
TAGS: NAFTA, trade agreement

 

Macleans.ca
““A NAFTA deal in principle will help ease investor anxiety, stabilize trade exposed sectors and reassure the world that North America remains …”
TAGS: NAFTA, trade agreement