Tag Archives: Health
Saskatchewan alerts public about elevated risk of Monkeypox
Health officials are raising concerns about Monkeypox in Saskatchewan after new information related to recent cases."The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is alerting the public to the elevated risk...
Aug 13, 2022
COVID-19 booster eligibility expands to 18+ in Sask.
People in Saskatchewan looking to get their second booster shot will soon be allowed to do so.In a news release on Friday, Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab announced that the eligibility ...
Aug 12, 2022
USask dental clinic in P.A. closes to make way for unique replacement
The dental clinic run at the University of Saskatchewan's Prince Albert campus is closed until 2023 and will be replaced by a horse of a different colour.The new Dental Therapy Program that is schedul...
Aug 11, 2022
Delivering new services 'complicated,' Freeland says of planned dental care program
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is working hard to meet its end-of-year deadline to deliver dental-care coverage to kids but acknowledges that providing new services is "co...
Aug 09, 2022
‘We have a problem’: Nurses union says Northern Sask. not immune to health care shortages
As stories of hospitals and health care centres buckling under pressure continue to surface, one of the province's biggest health care unions say the same issues are being felt in northern Saskatchewa...
Aug 05, 2022
How pigs are helping researchers find ways to keep organs alive after death
Yale researchers may have found a way to keep organs alive longer after death. Using new technology, they were able to restore blood circulation and other cellular functions in pigs a full hour after ...
Aug 04, 2022
How pigs are helping researchers find ways to keep organs alive after death
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale researchers may have found a way to keep organs alive longer after death. Using new technology, they were able to restore blood circulation and other cellular functions in pigs...
Aug 04, 2022
Suicide rate in northern girls 26 times higher, a part of psychiatric crisis
Indigenous girls in northern Saskatchewan take their own lives at 26 times the rate of their southern counterparts and they have been relying on services in Prince Albert, said Carla Beck of the NDP. ...
Aug 04, 2022
UPDATE: Source has been found, says privacy commissioner
UPDATE: The office of the Privacy Commissioner says the source of the dumping of health records into recycling has been found and the matter is still being investigated. Someone in Prince Albert is du...
Aug 03, 2022
Staff shortage leads to temporary closure of P.A. psychiatric intake
A shortage of one, full-time child and youth psychiatrist in Prince Albert is causing the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) to pause new admissions to the child and youth inpatient mental health and...
Aug 02, 2022
