Tag Archives: Health
Vancouver's mayor says feds and B.C. need to step up funding for homeless
VANCOUVER - The deadline to dismantle an encampment along Vancouver's Hastings Street has passed with little change, but the city's mayor says he's reached out to the federal and B.C. governments for ...
Aug 04, 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
Feds silent on enforcement as national long-term care standards get final 'tweaks'
OTTAWA - Jane Sustrik remembers the sense of fear hanging over her in those early months of the pandemic. Dozens of residents from her mother's congregate living home in Edmonton died of COVID-19, as ...
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
B.C. premier says he may copy couple who put out newspaper ad looking for doctor
LANGFORD, B.C. - British Columbia Premier John Horgan suggested Wednesday the approach of a Victoria couple who placed a newspaper ad to find a family doctor could be one of his next steps to pressure...
Aug 03, 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 investigate.Someone in Prince Albert is dump...
Aug 03, 2022
Highly pathogenic avian influenza believed to be killing seals in Quebec
MONTREAL - Quebec researchers have detected avian flu in at least two species of seal, and they fear the virus is to blame for the unusually high number of dead seals reported on the province's shorel...
Aug 03, 2022
Progress made at Montreal AIDS conference despite visa issues, organizers say
MONTREAL - A major AIDS conference in Montreal highlighted the enormous progress that has been made in HIV research and also succeeded in bringing scientists and activists together despite visa issues...
Aug 02, 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