Health

Officials say the imminent closures of the harm reduction sites will have dire consequences in Timmins and Greater Sudbury where the opioid death rate is three times the provincial average

Cyril Lee Turley is a registered nurse at the Northeastern Manitoulin Family Health Team in Mindemoya 

Angus Reid Institute reports parental opposition to childhood vaccination grows as Canadians worry about harms of anti-vax movement

Ministry response comes after Ontario Medical Association members said the family physician model of care in Ontario is broken

Algoma Health Unit votes against a merger with Public Health Sudbury and Districts 

Two recent cases of childhood measles have been reported in the Toronto area in the past week

Two communities and an addiction recovery service worry a super-sized health unit won’t able to provide effective local public health services

Dr. Rayuda Koka, the mental health director at Health Sciences North, said more research is needed before allowing a person to choose assisted death because they have a mental illness 

At a press conference Feb. 1, provincial NDP leader Marit Stiles told media the province needs to fund The Spot,  and ‘they should be doing it now’

Summary report said the status quo is unacceptable and calls for removing barriers, changing attitudes, changing policies and spending more money to help people live better, suffer less and stay alive