By Suzy Hamilton, The Nelson Daily Health care has emerged as one of the key issues of the 2013 provincial election in the Nelson Creston riding, as voters question the future of their health care under a new government. “I believe that the next four years will be critical for the health care of the entire region,” said Dr....

In the last 50 years, immunization has saved more lives in Canada than any other health intervention.    April 20 to 27 isNational Immunization Awareness Week, and this year, Interior Health would like to remind you that we can all play an important role in stopping the spread of vaccine preventable diseases.  When most people...

Week one is complete in the sprint to form the next provincial government in B.C. The Nelson Daily will give constituents in Nelson/Creston riding a chance to see what the three candidates — incumbent Michelle Mungall of the BC NDP, Liberal Greg Garbula and Sjeng Derkx of the Green Party of BC — are offering when voters go ...

People in the least well‐off areas of British Columbia are dying sooner than those in better‐off areas, according to new figures from the Health Officers Council of BC. Overall life expectancy in BC has improved, but in less affluent areas of the province life expectancy has remained much the same or even declined. In an...

It's back after Nelson City Council approved the West Kootenay EcoSociety application to bring the Nelson Downtown Local Market back to Baker Street for 2013. This is the fourth year the EcoSociety will coordinate a market on Wednesdays from June 12 to September 25 in the 400 block of Baker St. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each...

UPDATE: Since publication of this story this morning, yet another oil spill has come across the wire - a CP Rail spill from a derailment in northern Ontario - raising the total of spills this past week to SIX. It's been another appallingly bad week for proponents of pipeline safety and new oil infrastructure. If the industry's...

British Columbians will soon notice they are paying less for many of the generic prescription drugs they need for their health. Starting April 1, a new drug pricing regulation will reduce the price of generic drugs to 25 per cent of the brand name price, from the current rate of 35 per cent of the brand name price. The price...

An early start to warm spring weather means many of us are getting out and enjoying the great outdoors.  The warm weather also brings out ticks, small bugs that bite and feed on the blood of humans and animals and can sometimes transmit disease. Ticks are most often found in tall grass and wooded areas. Fortunately, there are...

I still have patients come in and tell me they are told they should be able to get everything they need from their food, so, I ask them if they are eating totally organically, never eat out, never drink coffee, tea or other stimulants or alcohol and handle their stressors effectively.  I have never had a patient that can...

Wildsight, a charitable organization in the East Kootenay that works to maintain biodiversity and healthy human communities in Canada's Columbia and Rocky Mountains ecoregion, said a new study clearly indicates that the Elk River, in southeast British Columbia, is being poisoned by toxic levels of selenium leaching from...