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It's not a business
Re: “If you want birth control pills, go and see a different doctor,” John Carpay, Opinion, July 5. John Carpay asks what would be the consequences of forcing doctors to abandon their professional...
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Letter: Cancer awareness must come with timely access to medical tests
This month, football teams are wearing pink to raise breast cancer awareness. Next month is Movember, and prostate cancer awareness. Awareness leads to early detection and quick treatment that saves...
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A writer and his fiancée discover that a sexually transmitted disease has...
My fiancée, Janae, was splayed out on a crinkly examination table, knees high and spread, staring at fluorescent ceiling lights. I sat beside her as a nurse spun around in her chair, holding a thin...
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Saving lives, MacGyver-style on the frontiers of global health
What do you get when you combine a condom, a urinary catheter, a syringe, and some string? Contrary to what you may be thinking, you get a MacGyver-style device that can potentially save hundreds of...
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Giving: Love Her Gala raising funds for ovarian cancer
Ovarian Cancer Canada is hosting its third annual Love Her Gala on March 5 at Hotel Arts in support of ovarian cancer research and awareness. “It’s going to be a really fun evening filled with fashion,...
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Fortney: Perception of breast cancer changing
When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1990, all Betty Power could think of was her three children. “I thought I wasn’t going to see them graduate university, or even high school,” says Power,...
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Care helped take the pain away
Janette Wainwright has fought — and won — against breast cancer, heart attacks, hip problems and a nine-month stay in hospital. But she says without the caring team at Provital Health and Wellness...
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Patients need to be realistic about benefits of medical tests
When faced with illness, or the possibility of it, it is natural to want to intervene. After all, medical interventions can lengthen our lives and improve our quality of life. But these fundamental...
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Editorial: Midwives deserve more
In an era of laments about everything that is wrong with health care in Alberta, it’s strange that the province would refuse to increase funding to a service that truly works — midwifery. Alberta’s 95...
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Taran: Not every breast cancer patient needs genetic testing
By Shaurya Taran Two years ago, Angelina Jolie Pitt announced in the New York Times that she had undergone preventive double mastectomy. Jolie, 37 at the time, had discovered that she possessed a rare...
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Alberta's first midwifery students graduate from MRU
Eight Mount Royal University students made history Thursday when they graduated from the first and only midwifery program in Alberta. The graduates all wore red shoes, a tradition that started at the...
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Fortney: More to Stampede breakfasts than pancakes
She’s a country music fan, never turns down a free pancake and absolutely loves those 10 days each July when her adopted hometown turns into one giant hoedown. That still doesn’t quite explain why on...
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Fortney: Pink parade a lifeline for breast cancer survivors
Rose Gutierrez knows the precise spot where she stood one year ago, when she saw the parade of pink for the first time. “Right there,” she says, pointing in the direction of a second-floor balcony at...
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Running for a cure
Breast cancer survivor Janis Simmons shares her story while more than 7,000 participants warm up and start out on the route for the 24th annual CIBC Run for the Cure on Oct. 4, 2015. Simmons will be...
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Fortney: Calgarians flock to cancer run in all their pink glory
Do one thing that scares you every day. Dance like no one’s watching. The sun has not yet risen over the Southcentre mall parking lot, but already Ryan Hooper has accomplished both tips for a happy...
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Editorial: Some ideas are worth borrowing
Rachel Notley’s New Democrats don’t have a monopoly on good ideas — no government does, for that matter — so it should seize this one from the Wildrose. The Opposition has promised it would provide...
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Hoffman: NDP understands the value of midwives
By Sarah Hoffman Re: “An idea to borrow,” Editorial, Feb. 20 The Herald’s editorial board applauded the work of Alberta’s midwives and acknowledged the important role these health-care professionals...
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Increased funding for Alberta midwives could be coming, says health minister
The province’s health minister hinted Monday there will be good news for midwives and pregnant women seeking their services in the upcoming provincial budget. And in the four weeks until the budget...
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Fortney: Laughter part of good medicine for cancer survivor
It should have been one of the worst times of her life — and in many ways it was. “I was in pain and always exhausted,” recalls Sonja Jovanovic of her cancer treatment three years ago. “There is really...
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Calgary breast cancer survivors a picture of fitness and strength in Dragon...
In what is often a strenuous test of fitness and strength, Diedre Palik revels in the chance to show what she can still accomplish as a 69-year-old breast cancer survivor. She will join the Calgary...
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