Tag Archives: health

With many Saskatchewan residents heading out to the lakes to enjoy the hot, dry weather, there's one thing they should be on the lookout for - blue-green algae. The recent weather the province has bee...

As if the battle against ovarian cancer wasn't hard enough, another fight is underway to fund the life-prolonging drug Lynparza. Judy Fielden has just finished chemotherapy for her second bout of the ...

She has spent more than 40 years caring for others as a nurse but now Judy Fielden is in the fight of her life. Battling a second bout of ovarian cancer, the 73-year-old Regina woman wants the governm...

Alcohol is a big part of the culture in Canada but one that can be harmful. According to a new report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), there were more hospitalizations for co...

It wouldn't be a Saskatchewan summer without talk of West Nile virus. The flu-like illness is transmitted through the Culex tarsalis mosquito and can be a major problem each season. But it is difficul...

For Shantelle Arsenault and her family, the story of her cancer diagnosis became a story of two sisters battling for their lives. The Saskatchewan woman was diagnosed with breast cancer on St. Patrick...

A Saskatchewan MP says the federal government needs to start taking Lyme disease more seriously. Saskatoon-Grasswoods MP Kevin Waugh said he has been hearing from sufferers who got tested in Saskatche...

As a young boy in Luseland. Sask., Jim Pattison said he was always encouraged to give back. "We've been doing that for a long time," he told the Brent Loucks Show Thursday morning And give back he did...

An addictions expert is urging parents to talk to their kids about fentanyl in the wake of an overdose death in Saskatoon. Police linked the deadly opioid to three of five overdose calls officers hand...

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has once again added more products to an ongoing recall of certain kinds of flour. The recall over concerns about E. Coli contamination started with a few ki...