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Health benefits of biking infrastructure

One of the challenges with moving towards sustainability is the separation of different areas of human living into different levels of government. In Canada, municipalities are responsible for municipal transportation systems, including bike infrastructure, while provinces are responsible (mostly) for health systems. This means that spending on one area does not result in savings for … Continue reading

Extreme weather increases emergency room visits

Extreme weather events are increasing with climate change. This has many repercussions, and a new study by Salas and colleagues (2024) shows that emergency room visits and mortality increase in the aftermath. The researchers studied 42 billion dollar extreme weather events in the US between 2011 and 2016. They compared data between hospitals in affected … Continue reading

Sustainability applies to everything including kidney dialysis

For a project in university I once looked at all the things in health care that used oil based products, it’s a lot. I talked in that project about how important it is to prioritize where we use oil as we will inevitably have to phase out its use. Nobody wants to stop important health … Continue reading

Hypertension and stopping research studies early

These two topics aren’t related except that while reading an opinion article published on The JAMA Network about the challenges and opportunities of implementing the most recent guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension I learned that some clinical studies are stopped early because the study is showing positive results. Hypertension first. The American … Continue reading

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