News - Alberta Health Services
The analysis of a new major study has concurred with decades of research that being active means being healthy, and also reduces the risk of cancer.
By THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON - The Alberta government says it is merging nine regional health boards and three agencies into one body that reports directly to the health minister.
By Bill Graveland, THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY - An in-depth review ordered by the Alberta government after a hospital was partially shut down over a sterilization scare says the most effective way to control infections at health facilities is meticulous hand-washing.
CALGARY (CP) - Alberta health regions were scrambling Wednesday to make plans for a range of "extras" they will be allowed to offer patients willing to pay for them under provincial health reforms announced by Premier Ralph Klein.