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History. Fraser Health was created in December 2001 as part of a province-wide restructuring of health authorities by the then-new BC Liberal government of Premier Gordon Campbell. It is the merger of three former health regions: Simon Fraser Health Region (SFHR), South Fraser Health Region, and the Fraser Valley Health Region (FVHR).
For decades, researchers have seen an association between shift work and the risk of heart attacks and heart disease. One review of the research found that shift work seems to raise the risk of ...
This the largest ever look at shift work and cardiovascular risk. Risk of heart attack was increased by 23%, risk for stroke was increased by 5% as compared to regular daytime workers. The worst ...
Harvard Medical School faculty profile. Charles Andrew Czeisler (born November 1952) is a Hungarian - American physician and sleep and circadian researcher. [1] He is a leading researcher and author in the fields of the effects of light on human physiology, circadian rhythms and sleep medicine .
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According to a new study, people who work night shifts have a 12 percent higher risk of atrial fibrillation (AFib), an irregular heart rate, compared to people who work during the day. While the ...
The Canada Health and Social Transfer ( CHST) was a system of block transfer payments from the Canadian government to provincial governments to pay for health care, post-secondary education and welfare, in place from the 1996–97 fiscal year until the 2004–05 fiscal year. It was split into the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) and Canada Social ...
Automated external defibrillators are different from the defibrillators used in hospitals; Westafer calls them “essentially foolproof.” There are clear instructions that show you step-by-step ...