Tag Archives: Health
First big payout in new Sask. lottery
The opening payout in the new Touchdown for Kids Millionaire Lottery has gone to a woman in Swift Current. Christine Newton won $500,000.The lottery is a partnership between the Saskatchewan Roughride...
Dec 05, 2019 Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation along with the Saskatchewan Roughrider Foundation are partners in the new lottery. (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Anonymous supporter makes big donation
The Rose Garden Hospice has received a generous contribution.Thursday afternoon at the organization's offices in the Gateway Mall an anonymous donor made a $50,000 donation to help make the facility a...
Dec 05, 2019 Marina Mitchell, left and Ralph Boychuk, hold a cheque showing the value of the anonymous donations. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
First all-female surgical team in Melfort hospital history delivers baby girl
History was made in the Melfort hospital operating room last month.The first all-female surgical team to operate at the hospital delivered a healthy baby girl on Nov. 10. Dr. Erin Beresh was the surge...
Dec 05, 2019 The first all-female surgical team at the Melfort hospital. (Facebook/Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Food prices set to climb nationally
It looks like Canadians will be paying more for food in the future.Researchers from the University of Guelph and Dalhousie University estimate the average Canadian family could spend an extra $400 on ...
Dec 04, 2019 Vegetable prices are expected to climb. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
New addictions clinic opens in Prince Albert
A new addictions clinic has opened in Prince Albert. Located just down the hall from Access Place on 15th Street East, patients have access to doctors, nurses, addictions counsellors and peer support ...
Nov 29, 2019 Prince Albert Carleton MLA Joe Hargrave called the new clinic "great news for us here in Prince Albert" speaking at a press conference to mark its formal opening on Friday. (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)
Annual walk marks HIV/AIDS Awareness Week
Organizers of Thursday's HIV/AIDS Awareness walk have two key messages for the public. Get tested to know your status. And be compassionate. "You are not going to get HIV from being friends with someo...
Nov 28, 2019 (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)
Saskatchewan chief disappointed at lack of long-term help to stop suicides
REGINA - The chief of a northern Saskatchewan First Nation says he is disappointed at the lack of long-term help from the provincial and federal governments to deal with what he says&nb...
Nov 28, 2019 (Submitted photo/The Canadian Press)
Victoria Hospital Foundation asking people to listen to their heart for this year's fundraiser
The Give a Little Life Day Radiothon is coming up Friday, Dec. 6. This year's Victoria Hospital Foundation (VHF) fundraiser aims to bring in $385,000 to help buy equipment to help heart patients. This...
Nov 26, 2019 Last year's Give a Little Life Day raised over $1 million for the new neo-natal intensive care unit at Victoria Hospital. (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
Suicide among youth appears to be spreading among Meadow Lake First Nations
The suicide crisis at Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation is not only deepening, but spreading. The band's CEO Barry Chalifoux said since the suicide death on Nov. 22, five more youth are in the hospital a...
Nov 26, 2019 (Derek Cornet/larongeNOW Staff)
Local man says he found insects in son's formula
A Prince Albert man says he got an unwelcome surprise earlier this month when his wife opened a can of powdered baby formula to feed their one-year-old son."When she opened the seal, there were two bl...
Nov 25, 2019 A Prince Albert man says his wife found these two small bugs in a can of President's Choice powdered baby formula. (submitted photo/Motasem Zidan)
