Health

Agencies warn domestic violence likely to rise due to COVID-19 anxiety

As self-isolation, quarantine and social distancing increase while the COVID-19 pandemic goes on, agencies are warning that incidents of domestic violence are likely to rise. The Calgary Domestic Viol...

Mar 20, 2020 (Women's Outreach Centre)

New app helps Albertans access health care

Albertans can now meet with Alberta-licensed physicians through their smartphone, thanks to an initiative by TELUS Health.The province says "Babylon by TELUS Health" is a service already available in ...

Mar 19, 2020 (Photo: Telus Health)

Alberta records first COVID-19 death

Alberta has recorded its first death from COVID-19. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medical officer of health, says the victim is a male in his sixties from the Edmonton zone who had underlying hea...

Andrew Snook Mar 19, 2020

Pharmacists to assess Albertans for COVID-19, manage drug supply

Pharmacists have been working hard to help Albertans assess and screen for COVID-19 and now the province says a new billing code has been created for this service.Officials say this new pharmacy servi...

Mar 19, 2020 File

What’s your role in this?

What to do in the middle of … whatever the hell this is? It’s got the world shook up and everyone paying attention. Borders are shut down, downtowns are ghost towns, calendars, workp...

Stephanie Staples Mar 19, 2020

Online map allows Albertans to search COVID-19 locations

Albertans can now look up which communities in the province have had confirmed cases of COVID-19.The updated page at alberta.ca/covid-19 provides case counts, demographic information such as genders a...

Mar 19, 2020

Federal government updates COVID-19 response

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says experts are telling his government to expect social-distancing measures to remain in place here for several weeks or months.He also says he spoke with leaders at Air...

Mar 19, 2020 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a March 19 news conference (Photo: CPAC)

Alberta gives daily COVID-19 update

As of Wednesday, 22 additional cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the province, bringing the total number of cases in Alberta to 119. There remains three confirmed cases in the Central zone, inc...

Mar 18, 2020

C.P. Blakely School student named Stollery Children’s Hospital Champion

It has been a few years since Kaden Howard recovered from serious injuries at the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton following a near-fatal accident. Kaden has since bounced back into action and...

Mar 18, 2020 (Photo submitted)

Local science teacher makes his own hand sanitizer amid COVID-19 pandemic

As many Albertans take steps to ensure they have enough hand wipes and sanitizers on-hand, one Red Deer teacher has taken matters into his own hands, so to speak.Jason Zackowski is a chemistry teacher...

Mar 17, 2020 (Photo: Zed Science Facebook page)