Tag Archives: Health

The province has released documents on its 2015 tours of long-term care facilities across Saskatchewan. The Ministry of Health has been doing the tours since the spring of 2013 to "find out what's wor...

More doctors being trained in Saskatchewan are staying in Saskatchewan. The province says 30 new family medicine graduates from the University of Saskatchewan are now practising in the province. The r...

Several health groups are giving Saskatchewan a grade it calls "unacceptable" when it comes to protecting people from the harms of tobacco. The Lung Association, the Heart and Stroke Association and t...

Surgical wait times are up again - and Saskatchewan's NDP is blaming it on the government.   In a news release, NDP leader Cam Broten accused the government of cutting surgical budgets.   "A...

Concerned family and friends of opioid drugs users, like fentanyl, now have a new tool in the fight against drug overdose deaths in Saskatoon. Fifty Naloxone kits are now available through the Ma...

Results from a pilot research project run by the University of Saskatchewan and St. John's Ambulance showed a stark improvement in people's attitudes, levels of happiness, and compliance with addictio...

AIDS Saskatoon hopes Charlie Sheen's HIV diagnosis will give hope to people living with the virus and help fight discrimination. In an interview on NBC's Today show, the Hollywood actor...

A six-year-old boy is lying in a hospital bed unconscious and in pain, surrounded by family. When a nurse comes to administer morphine, the unthinkable happens -- the little boy stops breathing a...

The city of Yorkton is seeing a cluster of whooping cough cases. Since August, the Sunrise Health Region has confirmed seven whooping cough cases in Yorkton, with another dozen people showing symptoms...

In less than a year, a medical marijuana dispensary in Whitewood has donated $90,000 to the community. "Well that's what a compassionate club was originally designed to do," owner Jerry Martin told Ne...