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Reminder: Sask. health cards expire Dec. 31
With a new year only weeks away, the provincial government is reminding people to make sure their Saskatchewan health cards are up-to-date. According to the province, most health cards are set to expi...
Dec 11, 2017
Province launches single Saskatchewan Health Authority
The days of multiple health regions in Saskatchewan are over. Monday marked the transfer of power to the new Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA), amalgamating the province's 12 health regions under on...
Dec 04, 2017
P.A. doctor faces allegations of sex with patients
A Prince Albert physician is facing eleven charges of unprofessional conduct from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan (CPSS) for allegedly having sex with a number of patients and c...
Dec 04, 2017 Dr. Josias Furstenberg had eleven charges brought against him for unprofessional conduct by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan on Nov. 24. (Doctor Jof/Facebook)
Sask. organ recipient urges people to make their wishes known
A Saskatchewan man who received a life-saving transplant is among those urging people to talk to their loved ones about organ donation. "People talk to me about this. I don't know how many people I've...
Oct 27, 2017
Temporary mental health unit at RUH to open early 2018
After months of delays, a timeline is in place to open a temporary mental health unit in the emergency room at Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital (RUH). A Saskatoon Health Region media release said...
Oct 18, 2017
Gormley Gathering hits fundraising milestone, tops $1M
The Gormley Gathering reached a major mark in the effort to raise money to fight prostate cancer and other urological diseases. The 2017 edition of the annual fundraiser collected $177,827 for the Les...
Sep 26, 2017 The 2017 edition of the Gormley Gathering raised $177,827 for the Leslie and Irene Dubé Urology Centre of Health. (Orlo Drewitz/Twitter)
Get the kids involved: Dietitian on back-to-school lunches
A Saskatoon-based dietitian is telling parents not to guilt themselves when it comes to their kids' school lunches. Brooke Bulloch, owner of Food to Fit Nutrition Inc., said parents shouldn't feel bad...
Sep 06, 2017
Sask. walk-in clinic wait times now online with new tool
A new online tool gives users a look at wait times at 20 walk-in medical clinics across Saskatchewan. "We just saw it as a simple idea that could help a lot of people," said Blake Adam on the John Gor...
Aug 19, 2017
New technology allows Sask. family to look in on infant son
By Kathy Gallant A Flying Dust First Nation woman and her family will be able to see her baby in hospital any time thanks to new technology at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Saskatoon's Ro...
Aug 04, 2017 Samantha Gladue with her 12-day-old infant son. Her family is one of the first in the province to access the new NICView technology. (Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation)
Sask. woman calls on government to cover cystic fibrosis drug
By Rebbeca Marroquin A Beauval, Sask. woman wants the Canadian government to cover an expensive drug for her cystic fibrosis. Every day, Christie Brizinski, 20, takes around 20 pills and vitamins to h...
Aug 04, 2017 Christie Brizinski, of Beauval, Sask. has started a petition drive to get the federal government to cover the cost of an expensive cystic fibrosis drug. (Christie Brizinksi/submitted)
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