An Edmonton has been able to walk once again with a surgery that has been conducted for the first time in the borough.

The surgery involved transplanting a cartilage, shin bone and meniscus. 22-year-old Matt Smith had to get his knee reconstructed as he had got a serious injury at his workplace.

It has been revealed in a new report that Lethbridge's Chinook Regional Hospital in southern Alberta has been facing an outbreak of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI).

A new fixed-wing air ambulance base called the Alberta Health Services will officially open on March 15. The base station will open at its new location at the Edmonton International Airport.

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation is putting its best efforts in raising $3 million that will be helpful for purchasing a state-of-the-art surgical robot that will be assisting the doctors at the Lois Hole Hospital for Women.

Alberta is going to be the first province in Canada to sponsor a new insulin pump program without any age restrictions. The move is highly appreciated by the diabetes community in Edmonton.

The new program will enable people with Type 1 diabetes to get an insulin pump. The announcement of the new insulin pump program was made during the 2013 provincial budget on Thursday.

Health Minister Fred Horne has said that isolation and stress has become very common for students. In order to improve metal health services, the Alberta Government has promised to give $10 million. This money would be equally distributed over three years. This decision has been preceded with a concern by health officials over suicide and psychiatric disorders among students.

Nurses union has once again started its protest against the Devonshire Care Centre based in southwest Edmonton. A strike notice has been served by registered nurses, 15 in number, at the for-profit centre, which they say is focused only on making profit.

As per recent reports, Alberta is facing acute shortage of day care spaces for the preschoolers in the region, while the officials are concerned about the issue and are planning steps to address the same.

An oil surplus has been taking the prices of Alberta crude down significantly in the United States. The same is in turn cutting the royalty revenues, which are main contributors to a quarter of the annual budget of $40 billion of Alberta.

Alberta Health Services and the University of Alberta have successfully developed a new iPhone app to aid the people of Alberta who are affected by heart failure.

Named Med-HF, the app will help the pharmacist and physicians of Alberta to help the locals with medication. It is expected to benefit about 80,000 patients who will be entitled to improve care from their doctors.