Tag Archives: Health

Hospital foundation relaunches; Pyxis MedStation in use
Battlefords Union Hospital (BUH) has started a new chapter with the relaunch of the Battlefords Healthcare Foundation and the introduction of updated healthcare equipment to provide top-quality servic...
Sep 18, 2024

N.B. election campaign to kick off Thursday, with economy and health major themes
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs is expected to officially kick off a provincial election campaign Thursday morning with a visit to the lieutenant-governor. Opposition parties got a he...
Sep 18, 2024

All 16 soldiers injured in CFB Valcartier training accident released from hospital
SAINT-GABRIEL-DE-VALCARTIER, Que. - All 16 Canadian soldiers sent to hospital after they were injured on a Quebec military base have been released. The Canadian Armed Forces said two armoured vehicles...
Sep 18, 2024

Construction wraps on indoor supervised site for people who inhale drugs in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - Supervised injection sites are saving the lives of drug users everyday, but the same support is not being offered to people who inhale illicit drugs, the head of the BC Centre for Excellen...
Sep 18, 2024

Saskatoon doctor checking hearts in Tisdale
September 16 - 20 is Heart Valve Disease Awareness Week and a Saskatoon-based cardiologist is coming to the northeast to spread said awareness.Janine Eckstein is in Tisdale today (Tuesday) and beginni...
Sep 17, 2024

Health Canada approves updated Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
TORONTO - Doses of Moderna's updated COVID-19 vaccine are expected to begin arriving in Canada "within days," a spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada says, although availability will dep...
Sep 17, 2024

'Not just an old person's disease': Dispelling myths during Arthritis Awareness Month
Patricia Bell tripped and hurt her ankle one day. Being 31 years old at the time, and in good health, the Prince Albert resident didn't think twice about the incident and just chalked it up to clumsin...
Sep 17, 2024

MK-ULTRA: Ottawa, health centre seek to dismiss Montreal brainwashing lawsuit
MONTREAL - Family members of patients allegedly brainwashed decades ago at a Montreal psychiatric hospital are afraid they're running out of time to get compensation because the federal government and...
Sep 17, 2024

Quebec labour tribunal says nurses cannot pressure the province by refusing overtime
MONTREAL - Quebec's labour tribunal has stymied the latest negotiation tactic of a union representing most of the province's nurses. Fdration Interprofessionnelle de la sant du Qubec had threatened th...
Sep 16, 2024

B.C. mayors seek 'immediate action' from governments on mental health crisis
VANCOUVER - Mayors, First Nations leaders, and law enforcement officials are pleading with the federal and provincial governments to take "immediate action" to address what they call dual "crises" of ...
Sep 16, 2024