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Vacation time, burnout, departing staff and COVID-19 infections factor into the need for reduced hours at two urgent care facilities.

An urgent care centre in south Calgary is reducing its hours starting Tuesday because of staffing shortages and the mayor is concerned the same could happen to other emergency centres in the city. 

The latest guidelines from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care recommend against screening all individuals for depression during pregnancy and in the postpartum period.

- New guideline from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care - Depression in pregnant and postpartum people is a serious issue. Rather than using a

The University of Calgary is inviting scholars and health care professionals from around the world to a conference discussing the issue of (and possible solutions to) doctors over-prescribing and over-diagnosing their patients.

Calgarys Dr. Eddy Lang said overdiagnosis is a pervasive problem in mental health treatment across the world.

Seeing a doctor in the emergency department is taking longer than usual at most Calgary hospitals, according to some Calgary area families and internal data from Alberta Health Services.

As of April 30, the province had reported 1,023 cases of the flu and 133 hospitalizations.

Alberta doctors are reporting lengthy wait times for pediatric patients at emergency departments in Calgary and Edmonton.

Influenza cases have spiked in Alberta in recent weeks, marking a return of the illness after last year saw zero confirmed cases.