Health

The construction of a new 160-bed wing at Pioneer Manor, planned as a five-story build, is up for tender and is anticipated to open by late 2025 or early 2026

In the early 1990s, 100,000 people in Portugal had a heroin addiction. Now, owing to the decriminalization of drugs, that number is closer to 25,000

Legislation would require hospitals to report adverse effects of 'natural health products' such as herbal remedies and supplements

Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) study said more women use cannabis to fight off severe nausea and vomiting, but evidence shows adverse perinatal and neonatal outcomes   

More than $15 million in federal funding announced at Sudbury's Collège Boréal on May 23

New report out of Alberta shows that province’s efforts to cut surgical wait times with for-profit outsourcing didn’t reduce wait times (in fact, it lengthened some) and didn’t increase surgical capacity in hospitals (in fact, it reduced it) — and this is the road Premier Doug Ford’s Conservatives are taking Ontario down 

Vancouver experiments with unique method of reducing withdrawal and cutting down on overdose deaths

Medical face masks are no longer mandatory in some areas of the Sudbury hospital

NDP Health critic says too many Long COVID patients are not getting the attention they need since there is no coordinated approach to treating those patients

Kyla Roy of Sudbury has had kidney disease since 2015 but things have become worse for her and now she needs a transplant