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Celebrating Black brilliance: Dr. Alfred Ernest Waddell
With files from Dr. Allan Marble, PhD, ONS, Chair, Medical History Society of Nova Scotia February is African Heritage Month in Nova Scotia. It’s a time to honour the culture, achievements and enduri...
Boosting health care access for Black Nova Scotians
Every February, Nova Scotians mark African Heritage Month, honouring the many ways that Black communities have helped make our province a vibrant, vital place to live, work and play. This year, the th...
It’s a new year and chances are you may be taking steps to improve your health and wellness. You may be on the hunt for reliable information and inspiration to help keep you motivated in the months to...
As we settle into the new year, it can be a challenge to keep up with the resolutions we set for ourselves in the dewy-eyed optimism of New Year’s Day. Things that seemed easily achievable on Jan. 1 f...
Spotlight on the provincial government’s health-care promises
November’s provincial election saw the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative (PC) party form a majority government, with the title of official opposition going to the New Democratic Party, and th...
Meet the dedicated doctors providing health care in Neil’s Harbour
Up along the Cabot Trail, nestled within the forests and mountains of Cape Breton Highlands National Park, three physicians are working together to provide comprehensive family medicine for their comm...
Fall 2024 has been a season of elections. The upcoming provincial election on Nov. 26 comes hot on the heels of the American presidential election and Nova Scotia’s municipal elections in October. It’...
With the provincial election just days away, Doctors Nova Scotia asked the province’s three main political parties about how they will work to improve health care in Nova Scotia. Here is how they resp...
Fall is finally here, and as we trade warm weather and late sunsets for chilly days and early nights, it’s time to makeover our dinner plans, too. No more cold plates and barbecues; now it’s time to t...
When Halifax family physician Dr. Ajantha Jayabarathan (Dr. AJ) had an older patient with an injured knee walk into her office using walking poles, it got her thinking about how Nordic walking could b...
It may be hard to believe, but it’s almost time to “fall back.” On Sunday, Nov. 3, at 2 a.m., the clocks will slide back one hour. We’ll move from daylight saving time into standard time, making it li...
Ensuring that you and your family members are up-to-date on your routine vaccinations is an important part of staying healthy, especially during respiratory disease season. (Not sure if your vaccinati...
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