Only a few months into the year, 2020 is already proving to be more exciting than ever. This March, RoSPA will be launching our first ever Awards Excellence Forum in India. taking place on Tuesday, March 24at Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Campus in Chennai, India. This free event is a phenomenal example of just how far the RoSPA Health & Safety Awards scheme has reached across the globe.
Hosting this international event is International Awards Ambassador Stephen Storey. With over 27 years of experience in the health and safety industry, combined with his rich RoSPA Award winning history, Stephen will…
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Congratulations are in order, Lindsay Lohan is officially a mom! The star, 37, has welcomed her first baby with husband Bader Shammas.
the Parent Traps the actress confirmed the news via her reps with a statement to People, stating the couple is welcome a baby boy they have named Luai, born in Dubai, where Lindsay and Bader live. Luai is an Arabic name, and means “shield” or “protector.”
“Lindsay Lohan and her financier husband, Bader Shammas, welcome a beautiful, healthy son named Luai. The family is over the moon in love,” the star’s rep said in their statement.WATCH: Lindsay…
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Anna had just celebrated her 53rd birthday, but she didn’t feel much like celebrating. Six months previous, Anna began having chest pain. Her doctor ordered some tests and diagnosed Anna with heart disease. Determining that she was too young to have a health issue like this, Anna started eating healthier, joined the gym, and committed to working out for one hour five days a week.
Yet despite a daily salad and 5 hours of sweat and hard work every week, her last doctor’s visit (two days before her birthday) revealed that not a lot had changed concerning her heart health.…
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It’s been three years since Christophe Legault, now 12, was diagnosed with obesity and started treatment.
He had been having trouble at school — his grades were dropping, he was being bullied and he was struggling to participate in sports such as basketball, his favourite.
The program he’s been following at Maison de Santé Prévention, a semi-private, subsidized clinic in Montreal, involves intensive lifestyle and nutrition counselling, including finding out what kinds of food and exercise work for him and his family, who pays for the treatment.
With help from doctors, nurses, nutritionists and other experts, the family made changes…
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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/ReutersWhen Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gathered top allies with deep pockets last week in Miami for a three-day “Ron-o-Rama” retreat, his team made the case for a path to victory. But there’s a major problem with the Team DeSantis logic: Its case for DeSantis’ path to victory actually worked better for his chief rival, former President Donald Trump.
The rationale hinges on myriad assumptions, and even those who are shaky.
Leaked audio and slides obtained by Florida Politics show contradicting claims, spun in a way meant to make it sound like DeSantis…
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Niagara Health says it’s set to eliminate after-hours emergency surgeries at the Welland, Ont., hospital starting Monday amid an anesthesiologist shortage.The change means residents needing the emergency care in the evenings and on weekends will have to check into Niagara Falls or St. Catharines General.
“We will safely move about six per cent of care from Welland to Niagara Falls or St. Catharine’s beginning February the 27th,” Niagara Health CEO Lynn Guerriero said in a statement Friday.Read more:
Niagara couple ‘lucky to be alive’ after a giant tree crashes into the bedroom of Fort Erie, Ont. home“People…
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Saskatchewan Health Minister Paul Merriman defended against accusations that the province isn’t transparent about hospital capacity, by reading out the website address where users can see emergency room wait times — but the link didn’t work.
Merriman read out the website link at the Saskatchewan legislature Thursday monring, after the NDP health critic, Vicki Mowat, accused the government of giving people “as little information as possible” about the state of health care.
Mowat urged Merriman to put information about hospital capacity on the Saskatchewan Health Authority website. Merriman joked the information is hiding on the internet.
“This is hidden on…
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Continuity Planning?
Thinking back to Monday 16th March 2020 I remember getting up early. I was due to visit one of our homes in Tewkesbury. I was just about to leave the house when an email landed from a senior Director telling us all to ‘Hold’ all visits and be ready for a conference call that morning. Yes, this was the start of the ‘Lock Down’. With the benefit of insight, how ready were we for what was about to happen next?
Our management team had already undertaken various strategic planning exercises. On the 16thth March, a ”strategic executive team”…
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