Tag Archives: Health

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...

STARS air ambulance got some good news in the 2019 federal budget. Ottawa committed $65 million to the air ambulance service in Tuesday's budget. Mike Lamacchia, STARS vice-president of operations in ...

The family of a Kindersley man who died outside the Saskatoon Cancer Centre on the University of Saskatchewan campus is helping the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency fix its policies. In late February a 60-y...

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are looking to see if the next breakthrough in cerebral palsy lies with man's best friend. Sarah Donkers, a physiotherapist with the department of rehabil...