Patient Education Resources

Head Lice (poster)

This poster contains some brief information about head lice.

Healthy Eating

Everyone should eat healthy food, including people getting cancer treatment. This pamphlet offers food suggestions that are high in protein and calories to eat before, during, and after your cancer treatment. Questions to ask your health care team are included.

Healthy Eating After Your Transplant

This pamphlet gives tips for healthy eating and explains how to make healthy food choices. Information about reading food labels, making your recipes healthy, safe food handling, and eating out is included. This pamphlet is also available in French.

Heart Healthy Eating Guide

This pamphlet explains what you can do to eat heart healthy, including tips to help limit sodium (salt), sugar, and fat, and eat more fibre, fruits, and vegetables. Information on how to read a food label is given. This pamphlet is also available in French.

Heart Healthy Eating Tips

Healthy eating can help lower your risk of heart disease by controlling your weight, lowering your cholesterol, and preventing or controlling high blood pressure. This pamphlet gives suggestions for ways to eat healthier.

Heart Healthy, Sodium Restricted Guidelines: 1500 to 2000 mg sodium per day

Heart healthy eating can help you feel good and give you energy. This pamphlet explains how to eat heart healthy. Foods that are best choices and foods to avoid are listed.

Heart Transplant

This guide will help you and your loved ones during the transplant process. This pamphlet describes getting ready for a transplant, getting ready once a heart becomes available, and what to expect after surgery.

Helping Teens Cope with Dying, Death, and Grief

This pamphlet outlines how to help teens cope with dying, death, and grief. It explains how teens may react when someone is very ill, the role their friends may play in the grieving process, and how their reactions may differ from those of an adult.

Hemoglobin A1C

PL-0161: This pamphlet is part of the Diabetes in Children and Youth series. This pamphlet explains what Hemoglobin A1C is and how to measure it.

Hemoglobin A1C [Arabic]

PL-0161-AR: This pamphlet is part of the Diabetes in Children and Youth series.