Interior Health is reminding parents and caregivers to make sure their children’s immunizations are up to date. This timely reminder comes as pertussis cases continue to occur in several Interior Health communities. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a serious infection of the lungs and throat. Pertussis can affect...

Since the weather is shifting into spring early this year with the daffodils and tulips popping out of the earth, it is a great time to consider spring cleaning your body. Take some time to focus inside and let go of built-up toxins, metabolites, hormones and breakdown products. There are lots of fresh fruit and vegetables ...

A woman named Kay Carter arranged for her own death.  She was suffering constant pain and knew that it would never get any better -- her  neurodegenerative condition might eventually bring death, but not "foreseeably."   The pain it caused was unmanageable. Pain had rendered her life so unbearable that she just wanted it...

The next time you hear gentle wind chimes ringing through the halls of Kootenay Lake Hospital, it means a new life has entered the community. Electronic Birth Chimes have been installed in labour and delivery at KLH. This allows parents of newborns to announce their new arrival over the hospital paging system. The purpose of...

Have you ever had to drive to Trail, Nelson or farther to see a physician specialist? Would you be interested in trying other options that  wouldn’t require you to travel? If the answer is yes, doctors would like to hear from you. Kootenay Boundary residents who have seen specialists in the last two years are being asked to...

A significant increase in drug-related overdoses and deaths has prompted provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall to declare a public health emergency. This is the first time the provincial health officer has served notice under the Public Health Act to exercise emergency powers. B.C. is the first province to take this...

Bats!  Such harmless and essential creatures -- yet, even now, still so often feared and  misunderstood.  If you see a bat flying around at dusk in the Kootenays, be aware that the little creature is eating insects at a great rate.  Insect-eating bats are of vital importance to farmers around the world for controlling insect...

An additional 73 substance use treatment beds are on their way to communities throughout Interior Health (IH). The new beds are part of IH’s plan to meet the Province’s 500 Substance Use Spaces Initiative and will support and enhance existing substance use treatment services across IH. “These new beds for Interior Health are...

         When I look out the window at this time of year, I see the black speckled snow piles disappearing and the increased dust and gravel on the streets and sidewalks. Most people assume the black specks are dirt, but they are also moulds. Here are the solutions to stop or minimize symptoms of  sneezing, nasal or sinus...

        Here are some more helpful things you can do to keep the body as alkaline as you can, so it can detoxify all the breakdown products and move them out through the feces and urine more efficiently.           We already talked about eating dark green leafy veggies and other veggies (other than tomatoes and potatoes),...