Health

Menstruation Equity Fund pilot in the Battlefords and Meadow Lake

Women in need of menstruation support will find relief in the Battlefords. The Battlefords District Food and Resource Centre is among a number of registered food banks in the province and the country ...

Jaryn Vecchio Dec 11, 2023

Seniors over 87 can apply to join federal dental plan starting next week

The federal government hopes to avoid gumming up the works of its new dental-insurance plan by gradually phasing in enrolment over the course of the next year, Health Minister Mark Holland said Monday...

Dec 11, 2023

Federal government to announce details of dental insurance plan

Several government ministers are expected to launch today a new federal dental insurance plan that will provide benefits directly to eligible Canadian residents, though the first claims won't be proce...

Dec 11, 2023

Fields of anxiety: Overcoming stigma to address mental health struggles of farmers

Christi Friesen remembers her husband saying he knew that the cloud of depression over her was finally lifting when he saw her smile at the end of the gruelling 2016 harvest season.That October had be...

Dec 09, 2023

NITHA reports new cases of TB in the north

Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) recently announced the latest active tuberculosis (TB) cases.When TB Advisor Tina Campbell was in the region, which serves 33 communities within Meadow L...

Dec 09, 2023

Privacy commissioner makes several recommendations following theft of van full of health samples

An investigation into the loss of health information this summer after a van full of lab samples was stolen in Prince Albert has resulted in several changes being recommended.The Office of the Informa...

Dec 04, 2023

New suicide support group to open in Meadow Lake

As the holiday season drifts ever closer, thoughts turn to loved ones and being together. For others, Christmas is a time of grief, guilt or a myriad of other emotions as the empty space at their tabl...

Dec 04, 2023

Naloxone: What to know about the opioid overdose-reversing drug, free across Canada

Health Canada has called the opioid crisis one of the most serious public health threats in recent history, and an addictions specialist says everyone can play a part in helping reduce the death toll....

Dec 03, 2023

Flu season has officially started in Canada, public health agency says

Flu season has officially begun in Canada, the federal public health agency said on Friday."At the national level, influenza activity has crossed the seasonal threshold, indicating the start of influe...

Dec 02, 2023

World AIDS Day marked in North Battleford with community event

In the heart of the Battlefords Metis Indian Friendship Centre on what would have been Matthew Shepard's 47th birthday, the details of the aftermath of his now 25-year-old murder play out in the Laram...

Dec 01, 2023