Tag Archives: Health
More than $160K raised during Boreal Healthcare's Med Gala
It was a successful night to honour the great accomplishments of health care workers and pioneers in Prince Albert and northern Saskatchewan.The Boreal Healthcare Foundation held its Med Gala on Satur...
Apr 30, 2024
CDC says it's identified 1st documented cases of HIV transmitted through cosmetic needles
Three women who were diagnosed with HIV after getting "vampire facial" procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa are believed to be the first documented cases of people contracting the virus ...
Apr 28, 2024
Ottawa puts another $36M into vaccine injury compensation fund
The federal government has added $36.4 million to a program designed to support people who have been seriously injured or killed by vaccines since the end of 2020.The program was announced shortly aft...
Apr 24, 2024
Results of Canadian uranium workers study delayed
The country's most comprehensive study on the effects of radiation on 90,000 Canadian uranium workers is delayed.Originally expected to have its final study results released this year, the study has b...
Apr 24, 2024
Prince Albert Public Library says reduction of hours not in the cards, but safety of residents remains priority
Although they banned over 30 people this year for safety related reasons, the director of the Prince Albert Public Library confirmed there are no plans at this time to reduce hours.Alex Juorio is resp...
Apr 23, 2024
Prince Albert limits liquor store hours
Liquor stores in the City of Prince Albert will no longer be allowed to open before 10 a.m. and must close at 11 pm. Council passed third reading of the bylaw making the change at their regular meetin...
Apr 23, 2024
Doctors ask Liberal government to reconsider capital gains tax change
The Canadian Medical Association is asking the federal government to reconsider its proposed changes to capital gains taxation, arguing it will affect doctors' retirement savings.Kathleen Ross, the as...
Apr 23, 2024
New report shows astronomical increase of Sask. opioid deaths in first year of COVID pandemic
A new report shows that a crisis affecting thousands of Saskatchewan people got incredibly worse during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) published a s...
Apr 22, 2024
'Misuse' of free parking passes attributed to cancellation: SHA
Just days after a Prince Albert cancer patient raised concerns with respect to the sudden cancellation of free parking passes at Victoria Hospital, the Saskatchewan Healthy Authority is sharing its re...
Apr 22, 2024
‘Dying for doctors’: Report cites concerns with health care in rural Saskatchewan
Suzanne Kuchinka, mayor of the village of Macoun in southeast Saskatchewan, says it's been a struggle for years to keep family doctors because they retire or move elsewhere.In Lloydminster, a city on ...
Apr 21, 2024
