Summerland Health Care Auxiliary raises $1M for new medical hub in town - Castanet

Volunteers at Summerland Auxiliary have turned countless hours of work into a massive donation towards building a new clinic in town. The volunteer-based auxiliary donated $1 million to the South Okanagan Similkameen (SOS) Medical Foundation to support a new medical clinic planned for 13201 Victoria Road North.

European Medical Journal news storyPeople living with HIV may experience subtle changes in heart muscle function even when conventional measures of cardiac performance remain normal, according to findings from a systematic review and meta-analysis. Researchers identified significantly impaired global longitudinal strain (GLS) among people with HIV compared with HIV-uninfected individuals, despite preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in both groups. The findings suggest that speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE) could provide additional information about early myocardial dysfunction in this population. Read the full news story here.

Among cancer patients, the high financial cost of cancer care is a prevalent problem. This financial burden is also associated with potentially harmful behavioral strategies that patients might use to cope with costs, such as delaying or forgoing treatment and skipping medications. Collectively, researchers refer to this impact as financial toxicity.