Tag Archives: Health

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Appeal Court has reaffirmed a teenager's decision to have gender transition treatment and urged the boy's father to try to understand his s...

TORONTO - Two Canadian health advocacy groups launched a public awareness campaign Wednesday taking aim at flavoured vape products, with a pointed advertisement that highlights how the products are ma...

OTTAWA - Lou Burri says a body stored in a hospital conference room first set an alarm bell ringing in his head last October. The hospital denies that happened, but the union leader at the O...

VANCOUVER - Dr. Nadine Caron says she hears difficult stories every day from some of her Indigenous patients in rural British Columbia facing a diagnosis of cancer. They tell her why they di...

Flu season is right around the corner, and starting today residents can do their part to protect themselves from illness. As of Monday the influenza vaccine is available at public health clinics acros...

As the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital (JPCH) prepares for the Sunday move-in date, there's one service that the state-of-the-art facility won't offer for pediatric patients. It won't have a pediatri...

A volunteer CPR instructor with the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) violated a person’s health privacy when she took a class of three students to a patient’s Regina home as the patient...

According to a new report, 33.4 per cent of children in Saskatchewan are obese. That's one of the findings contained in the report released Tuesday by the non-profit organization Children First Canada...

WINNIPEG - Health officials are investigating an outbreak of salmonella in six provinces that has sickened 63 people, including 18 who have been hospitalized. The Public Health Agency of Canada said F...

Photo: Saskatoon's first private MRI clinic in Market Mall is slated to open in September. (Brent Bosker/650 CKOM) When Saskatoon's first privately owned and operated MRI and CT facility opens this fa...