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Government of Sask. touts $51.2-million investment in health career training
Funding from the Government of Saskatchewan will add 66 new training seats for health-care careers this year, and add four new domestic training programs to the province. According to the Ministry of ...
May 09, 2024 '"Expanding education opportunities is a key deliverable of our Health Human Resources Action Plan,' Premier Scott Moe said. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young)
Breast cancer screening should start at age 40, Canadian Cancer Society says
The Canadian Cancer Society says all provinces and territories should lower the starting age for breast cancer screening to 40. The current guideline set by a national task force says screening for pe...
May 09, 2024
New Brunswick says bill to force people into drug care shelved until after election
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative government says a bill to force treatment for drug users that was to be introduced this spring has now been shelved until after the fall election...
May 09, 2024
B.C. drug use advocates warn decriminalization change may cause more drug deaths
VANCOUVER - Health Canada's decision to allow British Columbia to again prohibit the use of illicit drugs in most public spaces will cause more deaths, the executive director of the Vancouver Area Net...
May 08, 2024
Health minister committed to fixing dental-care double standard: hygienists
OTTAWA - A new national dental-care plan denies independent hygienists equal reimbursement for the same services offered in dentists' offices - and the federal health minister said this week he isn't ...
May 08, 2024
There is no concern about a 'diminished supply' of doctors in Ontario: ministry
TORONTO - Recruitment and retention of doctors in Ontario is "not a major concern," the Ministry of Health suggests in arguments it is making in arbitration with the Ontario Medical Association over p...
May 08, 2024
Democrats hope abortion issue will offset doubts about Biden in Michigan
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Two women campaigning for President Joe Biden after facing medical emergencies because of abortion restrictions in their states visited Michigan on Tuesday to highlight what they...
May 07, 2024
B.C. drug deaths reach 192 in March; Ottawa approves request to prohibit public use
VICTORIA - On the same day the British Columbia government's approach to the overdose crisis faces a major shift, the provincial coroner announced another 192 people were killed by illicit drugs in Ma...
May 07, 2024
New York judge blocks amendment barring discrimination on gender identity and pregnancy outcomes
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A proposed amendment to New York's constitution barring discrimination based on "gender identity" and "pregnancy outcomes" cannot appear on the state ballot in November because leg...
May 07, 2024
Health ministry says Sask. saw highest-ever surgical volume in 2023-24
Saskatchewan set a surgical record recently, the Ministry of Health says, with more than 95,700 procedures performed over 12 months. According to the ministry, the record for the highest number of sur...
May 07, 2024 The Ministry of Health says the province set a new record, with more than 95,700 procedures performed over 12 months. (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
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