New Brunswick’s doctors and dietitians are asking parents, teachers, and education administrators to take a closer look at what their school cafeterias are serving. As part of the New Brunswick Medical Society’s “Care First” health plan, parents are asked to share their school menus to see how much food is really healthy. The initiative, known [Read More...]
FREDERICTON (NB) – More than 2,600 children participated in “Small Strides, Healthy Lives”, the New Brunswick Medical Society’s & RunNB’s popular children’s running program during the 2013 road racing season. “Every year, the number of children participating in our kids’ races keeps growing and this year was no different, “said Brian Richard, President of RunNB [Read More...]
The New Brunswick Medical Society announced a new president Saturday, following the conclusion of their Annual General Meeting in Moncton. Dr. Lynn Hansen, an anaesthesiologist in Fredericton, will take the reins from Dr. Robert Desjardins of Bathurst, also an anaesthesiologist. “I’m looking forward to leading the New Brunswick Medical Society toward our long-term goal of [Read More...]
Are you walking further than your fridge? Are we hard at work in our province, training the next generation of Alberta’s doctors? And isn’t our health care system really just a sick care system? These are the questions doctors are thinking about right now. Earlier this week, the New Brunswick government released its plan for [Read More...]
The government’s Board of Management has approved a 4-year pay review for the Medical Services Pay Plan. The NBMS received notice on Friday that salaried physicians will receive a 4% increase over four years: two years of zero as planned, and two years of 2% increases. This is aligned with wage increases for other public [Read More...]
New Brunswick’s doctors have written to the Province, asking them to divert funding from “liberation therapy” to other clinically effective methods of treating multiple sclerosis (MS). “Multiple sclerosis is a terrible disease, and doctors and patients once held great hope for ‘liberation therapy,’” said Dr Robert Desjardins, President of the New Brunswick Medical Society. “But [Read More...]
FREDERICTON (RUN NB) – RunNB is partnering with the New Brunswick Medical Society on an exclusive partnership package for the popular Run NB children’s running program. “Having the provincial medical society come on board with our organization is a perfect fit for our vision of promoting healthy living and encouraging our youth to run,” said [Read More...]
The President of the New Brunswick Medical Society thanked the Minister of Health and the Chief Medical Officer of Health today as a law banning underage indoor ultraviolet tanning was recently passed in the Legislature. “Recent action by lawmakers is a victory for our patients – and especially young women – whose risk of skin [Read More...]