Health

Syphilis rates doubling every year in Sask.

Syphilis is growing in Saskatchewan with cases doubling every year. In 2021, 1,940 cases of the sexually transmitted infection were reported, excluding the population living on reserves. Of those, 248...

Aug 16, 2022

Saskatchewan alerts public about elevated risk of Monkeypox

Health officials are raising concerns about Monkeypox in Saskatchewan after new information related to recent cases."The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is alerting the public to the elevated risk...

Aug 13, 2022

COVID-19 booster eligibility expands to 18+ in Sask.

People in Saskatchewan looking to get their second booster shot will soon be allowed to do so.In a news release on Friday, Chief Medical Health Officer Dr. Saqib Shahab announced that the eligibility ...

Aug 12, 2022

Delivering new services 'complicated,' Freeland says of planned dental care program

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is working hard to meet its end-of-year deadline to deliver dental-care coverage to kids but acknowledges that providing new services is "co...

Aug 09, 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

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...

Jaryn Vecchio 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

Six infants stillborn in Sask. syphilis outbreak

An increase in syphilis in parts of Saskatchewan has led to the still births of six babies according to the medical officer of health for Indigenous Services in Saskatchewan. Dr. Ibrahim Khan said on-...

Jul 29, 2022

WHO declares monkeypox a global health emergency

LONDON - The chief of the World Health Organization says the expanding monkeypox outbreak in more than 70 countries is an "extraordinary" situation that qualifies as a global emergency. The head of th...

Jul 23, 2022