Tag Archives: Health

Calling Canada's medical marijuana laws too restrictive, a Saskatoon man hopes to bend the ear of city officials to get them to make private dispensaries legal.Saskatoon Compassion Club owner Mark Hau...

 Staff at the St. Paul's Hospital morgue were evacuated Friday night after a small amount of liquid formaldehyde was spilled. The Saskatoon Fire Department arrived around 10:30 p.m. and foun...

A month of hot, dry weather kept them away, but now mosquito numbers appear to be spiking with a vengeance in parts of southern Saskatchewan.Phil Curry is an etymologist and West Nile coordinator with...

The University of Saskatchewan's college of medicine is one step closer to meeting its accreditation requirements to get out of probation. The university and the faculty association have signed a lett...

No other cases of Dutch elm disease have been found in Saskatoon since a tree in the Queen Elizabeth neighbourhood was removed after testing positive for the arboreal illness last month. Accordin...

Daniel Lundy has just returned from a trip he'll remember for the rest of his life. Lundy went with his family to Victoria, B.C., to see the ocean. While many people many take this trip for ...

The Saskatoon Health Region is investigating the cause of a rise in lung infections after six cancer patients were infected.The region's hematology program noticed an increased rate of fungal lung inf...

The boy who ran away from Saskatoon's Kilburn Hall on Wednesday night is the brother of the boy who died while in custody at the youth detention facility last week, CKOM has learned. "I lost my o...

Kindersley RCMP are warning about fake OxyContin pills.The pills contain fentanyl, a highly toxic opiod linked to deaths across Canada in recent years.Green fentanyl tablets marked to look like OxyCon...

The officer of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner challenges the Saskatoon Health Region to disclose the name and the punishment received by an employee who they caught snooping med...