October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Islanders will have the opportunity to learn more about breast cancer in Prince Edward Island at a free information session. Breast Cancer on PEI: An Island Check-Up Saturday, October 5, 2019. Hotel on Pownal, Pownal Lecture Room, 146...
Islanders who need laboratory services such as bloodwork at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital now have the option of booking these services online through SkiptheWaitingRoom.com. The service will be expanded to the Prince County Hospital in September and to all community sites this...
Vaping and e-cigarette use may be presented as alternatives to smoking and tobacco use, but health experts are warning that vapes and e-cigarrettes are not healthy alternatives for young people. This year, as part of National Non-Smoking Week, public health officials want to...
This booklet will provide you with step-by-step information on what to expect during your breast cancer experience. We suggest you read the whole booklet early on so that you will be ready to make decisions along the way.
What is Advance Care Planning? Advance Care Planning (ACP) is about having conversations with your close family, friends and health care provider(s) so that they know the health care treatment you wish to have, or refuse, if you become incapable of expressing your own decisions...
Information for parents or caregivers on healthy eating and active living for children 1 to 5 years of age.
Leon Robinson figured he wasn’t having a heart attack. The 74-year-old Charlottetown man woke up early one Saturday morning last May. He and his wife were going shopping for a new car that afternoon, so he decided to clean out the old one. As he vacuumed the seats, he felt a...
How a PEI tech company made booking lab tests much easier “I feel like you could say this about almost every facet of health care, but the pandemic really did change everything for us,” said Brian Timmons, provincial director of Medical Laboratory Services at Health PEI. “We...
The Charlottetown COVID-19 clinic is moving to a new location on Park Street as of Monday. Since March, the COVID-19 Clinic in Charlottetown, which includes a testing site and cough and fever clinic, has been located at the Eastlink Centre. Starting Monday, September 28, those...