Tag Archives: Health

The provincial government says 12 new family doctors are practicing in province thanks to the Saskatchewan International Physician Practice Assessment (SIPPA) program. The program was created in 2011 ...

Saskatchewan's health minister is promising to move quickly on two out of nine recommendations outlined in a report on providing better clinical care for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients and improving...

For the first time since 2008, there's a new top name for baby girls in Saskatchewan. On Wednesday, eHealth Saskatchewan released the top 20 names for babies born in 2015. For the boys, Liam remained ...

Delegates representing cities and towns across the province are voting in favour of getting the provincial government to issue a ban on vaping and smoking in public places. The resolution narrowly pas...

Martin Collegiate in Regina is launching a new campaign aimed at helping students stop using tobacco. The campaign is called 'Fresh Start February'. It encourages people who use tobacco to pledge to q...

There are now three confirmed cases of Zika virus in Canadians who recently traveled to countries in Central and South America. Canadians are being advised to avoid traveling to countries that are aff...

A Canadian microbiologist says while the Zika virus is new and therefore poses a threat to everyone, cases aren't likely to pop up in Canada. Speaking to the CJME Morning Show Thursday, Jason Tero - T...

There is at least one confirmed hospitalized case of H1N1 in a worker at the K+S Potash mine in Bethune and a second worker is in the hospital waiting for test results. "In the last 24 hours we have c...

Public health officials in Canada warn pregnant women to avoid traveling to Mexico, Caribbean and South America.   That's because of the Zika virus. The tropical disease carried fr...

Less than a quarter of people in Saskatchewan have gotten a flu shot this season, but there's still time. Flu activity has been very low so far in the province. In the past week, only five influenza c...