Tag Archives: health

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is warning Saskatoon-area dog owners about a potentially deadly virus. The SPCA's Saskatoon shelter took in a puppy late last week testing p...

The wide use of artificial sweeteners in our food has given a team of scientists a golden opportunity to answer a horrifying question: "Just how much pee is in the pool?"   Researchers from the U...

A number of players in the Western Hockey League have been benched due to an outbreak of mumps. The league sent an alert Friday to all 22 teams after several cases involving the Medicine Hat Tigers an...

Health Canada has issued an advisory about a recall affecting certain models of Britax baby strollers sold in Canada between May 1, 2011 and Feb. 15, 2017. All Britax B-Agile and BOB Mobile-type strol...

REGINA - Staffing levels and a lack of baths are once again topping a list of concerns from residents of long-term care homes in Saskatchewan. The issues are identified in reports compiled after healt...

It's a bit of a blur to Sylvia Tuckanow, but she remembers being forced into getting her tubes tied at Royal University Hospital in 2001. After she had given birth to her sixth child, a son, Tuckanow ...

The Saskatoon Health Region (SHR) is set to begin a review into cases where women have reported being pressured into having their tubes tied. The SHR changed its policy around tubal ligation procedure...

Any attempt to build a safe injection site in Saskatoon could face a public relations battle, according to a new poll. Mainstreet surveyed 600 residents of Saskatoon between Jan. 3-4 . Of those survey...

The province and federal government have reached an agreement on health transfers. It comes after negotiations stalled last month between the health ministers who were looking for as much as a 5.2 per...

The provincial government predicts it will save between $10 million to $20 million by consolidating 12 existing health regions into a single authority.   Health Minister Jim Reiter said...