Health

Sudbury leaders pleased with sense of unity in looking for solutions to the local opioid drug crisis

As part of a sweeping value-for-money audit, Acting Ontario Auditor General Nick Stavropoulos found nursing and physician shortages are creating longer wait-times and forcing hospitals to rely on locums and expensive nurse staffing agencies to fill the gap

Two-day summit will feature more than a dozen speakers, including Mayor Paul Lefebvre and federal Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks, but media is excluded from the event

Called ‘Adventures in Aging’, the book spotlights the members of the Northern Initiative for Social Action’s older adults program

As funding for Sudbury’s supervised consumption site runs dry, community groups are coming together to call for more support for the harm reduction project

Health units in Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie exploring the idea of a voluntary merger

Province announces 121 additional training spots for nurse practitioners, six of which are going to the Sudbury university

New plan anticipates expected ‘transformative’ changes from provincial legislation, chair says

If you’re in your 40s, you can self-refer for a mammogram as of the fall of 2024, a change that’s being celebrated by breast cancer survivors and medical experts alike

Health is encouraging residents to get their flu shot, mask up and take the usual precautions