Tag Archives: Health
Canadian Blood Services urging people to donate as it faces collection challenges
TORONTO - Canadian Blood Services is calling on donors to book and keep appointments as it faces a decrease in collections. The organization said Monday it currently has only four days worth of O+ blo...
Aug 08, 2022
Heat warning still in place for large swaths of central and eastern Canada
Five provinces across central and eastern Canada continued to swelter in unseasonably hot conditions on Sunday, Environment Canada said as it extended a widespread heat warning into a second day. The ...
Aug 07, 2022
Ottawa on track to spend $200M per year on cannabis for veterans
Ottawa is reimbursing a record number of veterans for medical marijuana, with new figures showing the federal government shelled out more than $150 million in the last fiscal year - more than double t...
Aug 07, 2022
Pandemic benefits were too generous with businesses, stringent with workers: experts
OTTAWA - Benefits rolled out at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic allowed vulnerable Canadians to stay healthy while maintaining an income, but business supports were excessive and show the outsized ...
Aug 06, 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
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