Health

Community Scavenger Hunt taking place around Melfort

Getting out and active is the aim of a scavenger hunt hosted by the City of Melfort over the next month.The hunt includes clues to 10 locations, each with a secret word, that adds up to a secret messa...

Feb 03, 2020 (Cam Lee/northeastNOW Staff)

Screening for coronavirus part of local paramedics' day

Unlike past winters, this year those calling 911 for flu-like symptoms will be asked additional questions as dispatchers screen for the new coronavirus. The new protocol came into effect across Saskat...

Feb 03, 2020 Parkland ambulance and other paramedic services across Saskatchewan have protocols in place to contend with potential coronavirus cases. (file photo/paNOW Staff)

Canadians returning from Wuhan to be quarantined in motel at CFB Trenton

OTTAWA - Health Minister Patricia Hajdu says Canadians returning home from Wuhan will need physical and mental support once they arrive at Canadian Forces Base Trenton, where they will spend...

Feb 03, 2020

'Surprising what there is here': U of S medical students take field day in Melfort

For the eighth year, first and second-year medical students at the University of Saskatchewan are going through the Saskatchewan Medical Association's (SMA) Roadmap Program.The program is designed to ...

Lisa Brady Feb 03, 2020 University of Saskatchewan medical students practiced how to apply and remove casts during their Roadmap Program field day at Melfort Union Hospital. (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)

73 year of inspiration!

I met Jo-ann on day 4 of her 5 day expedition. I had heard other guests at our hostel talking about her amazingness earlier so I was excited to meet this Connecticut woman. If I still did my radio sho...

yourlife Feb 02, 2020

New vaping legislation in Sask. takes effect Saturday

Tougher regulations on vaping come into effect in Saskatchewan on Saturday.The Tobacco and Vapour Products Control Act was unanimously passed in the Saskatchewan legislature on Nov. 6."I'm excited to ...

Jan 31, 2020 (File photo/CJME News Staff)

Medically-assisted dying: the discussion in Saskatchewan

Two weeks of consultation in Canada regarding medical assistance in dying (MAID) ended on Monday, Jan. 27.The federal government offered Canadians a questionnaire to ask for their opinions on MAID fol...

Lisa Brady Jan 31, 2020 (Facebook/Canadian Nurses Protective Society (CNPS-SPIIC)).

UN agency declares global emergency over virus from China

BEIJING - The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has been exported to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number of c...

Jan 30, 2020 (File photo/Associated Press)

Drinking water advisory, care home restriction in Wadena

A precautionary drinking water advisory is in effect in Wadena.According to the town's website, the advisory is due to a well pump failure. That has led to a restriction of water being treated and ele...

Jan 30, 2020 (file photo/northeastNOW Staff)

'We don't have to use as much medication': adopted cat a positive influence for Parkland Place

A six-week-old stray kitten arrived on Parkland Place's memory care house patio in September 2017.Residents began feeding and interacting with the kitten before eventually welcoming him into the house...

Lisa Brady Jan 29, 2020 Patches has helped Parkland Place memory care house residents with behavioural outbursts and memory loss issues during his two-plus year stay. (submitted photo/Jacquie Sundelin).