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Sask. Cancer Agency seeks participants for huge health study
The Saskatchewan Cancer Agency is looking for thousands of people to join a massive health research study. The study, dubbed Healthy Future Sask, is the local component of a 50-year pan-Canadian healt...
Feb 01, 2023
Province adds more than 550 new training spots for health careers
In its latest effort to address the shortage of health-care workers in Saskatchewan, the provincial government is funding the creation of hundreds of new post-secondary training seats across 18 differ...
Jan 31, 2023 (Lara Fominoff/650 CKOM)
Pressure on hospitals 'levelling off,' SHA executive says
The province is starting to see a plateau of respiratory illnesses now that the holidays have passed, and some demand on hospitals seems to be levelling off. That's according to Derek Miller, the Sask...
Jan 28, 2023
Virtual ultrasound makes prenatal care more accessible in Sask.
At four locations around Saskatchewan, families can experience ultrasounds in their home communities while the hand controlling the probe is sometimes hundreds of kilometres away. The new telerobotic ...
Jan 26, 2023 Sonographer Natalie Kanigan demonstrates a virtual ultrasound. (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM)
Province touts progress on health-care recruitment plan
Saskatchewan's government is making good progress on its efforts to recruit more health-care workers, according to the Ministry of Health. The provincial government's Health Human Resources Action Pla...
Jan 26, 2023
'A priceless gift:' Saskatchewan charity giving teddy bears to children in hospital
Kids staying in Saskatchewan hospitals are getting new roommates - stuffed animals from Teddy Bears Anonymous. The Regina-based non-profit provides the furry friends to hospitals, paramedics and first...
Jan 25, 2023 (Teddy Bears Anonymous/Facebook)
Prime minister and premiers to discuss health-care funding during meeting in Ottawa
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will sit down with Canada's premiers next month to try and hammer out a new deal for health-care funding. Trudeau made the announcement Wednesday morning, saying the meet...
Jan 25, 2023 (Libby Giesbrecht/650 CKOM)
COVID, flu cases drop slightly in Sask. as RSV cases rise
The number of lab-confirmed COVID-19 and influenza cases in Saskatchewan both dropped slightly in the last two weeks of 2022, but the province saw an increase in cases of RSV. According to the Ministr...
Jan 06, 2023
More COVID vaccines available for Saskatchewan kids starting Monday
Starting Monday, some new COVID-19 vaccination options for children will be available in Saskatchewan. The Pfizer bivalent vaccine will become available as a first or second booster for children aged ...
Jan 06, 2023 (Saskatchewan Health Authority/Submitted)
'As quickly as I could': Chief coroner wants pipeline from hospital to detox
Saskatchewan's chief coroner is looking to improve things after the drug overdose death of a man just hours after he was released from hospital. Shayne Turner, 31, died in November 2021 of a drug over...
Jan 05, 2023
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