Tag Archives: health

This winter's mild temperatures have been perfect for construction, and the effects have been felt at the built site for the new Saskatchewan Hospital in the Battlefords. Currently, crews at the const...

A little less than a week after the first reports of an outbreak of Norovirus at the University of Regina, students don't seem very concerned. "I'm not too worried I guess, the flu is always going aro...

Regina's Jacqui Cameron is thrilled to be putting in a long day at this weekend's Telemiracle, having personally been assisted by the funds raised by the telethon. "I owe a lot to Telemiracle," Camero...

Patients now have the option to choose to directly pay a private facility for a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan in Saskatchewan.   Facilities that conduct a private MRI scan must also ...

OTTAWA - Canada's Food Guide should be urgently overhauled to reflect current scientific evidence, a Senate committee report warned Tuesday. "Several witnesses suggested that Canada's Food Guide has b...

Saskatchewan's NDP leader says mental health care is health care, and it's time it was treated that way. Cam Broten launched his party's election platform on mental health at a playground in south Reg...

Norovirus has been identified as the illness affecting several dozen people at the University of Regina (U of R). On Monday, the U of R confirmed that 44 people had become ill with a gastrointestinal ...

Dozens of people at the University of Regina (U of R) campus have come down with some kind of gastrointestinal illness, but the cause is still unknown. Symptoms include vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, abd...

The head of a Saskatoon-based medical marijuana supplier says legalization of pot won't have a large impact on scientific and medical research. Speaking at a University of Saskatchewan ...

The number of flu cases in Saskatchewan is growing and the province's chief medical health officer expects that to continue. "We'll probably see more ICU admissions and, unfortunately, deaths for the ...