Murray Wood: Artemis is what the world needed this week
Murray Wood says the Artemis II moon mission is sorely needed right now. Wood says you'd never know from looking at the ...
Tag Archives: Health
STARS to use federal budget cash to replace fleet
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 ...
Mar 20, 2019
Man's death prompts policy review at Sask. Cancer Centre
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...
Mar 18, 2019 The Saskatoon Cancer Centre at Royal University Hospital. (Saskatchewan Cancer Agency/saskcancer.ca)
Study using dogs to help Sask. kids with cerebral palsy
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...
Mar 04, 2019 A study at the University of Saskatchewan uses labernese dogs to help children with cerebral palsy walk. (University of Saskatchewan)
New Sask. Hospital tops fundraising goal following $1M donation
A $1 million donation is putting Saskatchewan's new psychiatric rehabilitation hospital over the top in its fundraising goal. Gordon and Jill Rawlinson, owners of Rawlco Radio, donated $1 million toda...
Feb 07, 2019 David Dekker (centre) poses with members of the Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford New Beginnings campaign on Feb. 7, 2019. (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
$6M donation kicks off hospice fundraising campaign
A big donation has helped kick off a campaign to build a hospice in Saskatoon. The St. Paul's Hospital Foundation launched its Close to Home fundraising drive Wednesday. The campaign got a major push ...
Jan 31, 2019 Health Authority plans to announce Tuesday a plan to address overcrowding at St. Paul's Hospital in Saskatoon (650 CKOM)
Water leak causes flood at Children's Hospital
Construction on the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital suffered a setback this month. Parts of the facility flooded on Jan. 25 after a water line in one of the main floor bathrooms sprung a leak. Water ...
Jan 29, 2019 A surgical suite seen under construction at the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital in October 2017 (Chris Vandenbreekel/650 CKOM)
Sask. NHLer helps net life-saving donation for teen with leukemia
The NHL's St. Louis Blues put out a video this week showing how a program set up in honour of a Saskatchewan woman who died of leukemia has helped save a life. Mandi Schwartz died in 2011 at the age o...
Jan 25, 2019 Regan Brown, 18, of Alabama was linked up with a donor for a life-saving bone marrow transplant through a registry set up by the family of Saskatchewan NHL player Jaden Schwartz. (Regan Brown/Facebook)
FSIN calls for government action on opioid crisis
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is calling on both the provincial and federal governments for immediate action against the ongoing opioid crisis in Saskatchewan's First Nations c...
Jan 16, 2019 Chief Calvin Straightnose (right) speaks to reporters at the FSIN offices in Saskatoon on Jan. 15, 2019. (Keenan Sorokan/650 CKOM)
Flu shot uptake an issue in poor areas: clinic manager
Despite the shocking news of three toddler deaths due to influenza in Saskatchewan this flu season, walk-in clinics in Saskatoon aren't seeing a spike in patients looking for a vaccination. Clinics ac...
Jan 11, 2019 The H1N1 flu virus. (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention)
Medical ketogenic formula shortage frustrates Saskatoon mom
A mother in Saskatoon is doing everything she can to ensure her daughter Jennica has the special ketogenic formula she needs. Michelle Linklater's 22-year-old daughter has autism and epilepsy. Accordi...
Jan 08, 2019 Michelle Linklater is trying to get answers on the shortage of KetoCal 4:1 formula that her daughter relies on. (KetoCal/Facebook)
NOW TRENDING
OPINION
Sarah Mills: The president is playing a game of Risk with real lives
Sarah Mills says when you make a threat like "a whole civilization will die tonight" about Iran, the only choi...
LATEST WEATHER
TODAY ON EVAN BRAY
The Evan Bray Show - Wednesday, April 8
On today's show, Evan gets the latest on global tensions with Iran and the U.S., discusses Riversdale safety concerns an...
