Health

Red Deer Food Bank anticipating new opportunities with food regulation changes

Officials with the Red Deer Food Bank Society are anticipating positive impacts from the provincial government's announcement last week that it's changing Alberta's food regulations.On Jan. 23, Minist...

Jan 31, 2020

Update from the province on novel coronavirus

Alberta's chief medical officer of health will provide an update on preparations for the novel coronavirus in light of the World Health Organization declaring it a public health emergency of internati...

Jan 30, 2020 Dr. Deena Hinshaw is Alberta's chief medical officer of health

Coronavirus could halt exchange trip to China for central Alberta students

The coronavirus -- declared as a global health emergency by the World Health Organization on Thursday -- may force Wolf Creek Public Schools to cancel an upcoming exchange trip to China.The trip sched...

Jan 30, 2020 Wolf Creek Public Schools Superintendent Jayson Lovell (at table, right), signs an agreement in spring 2018 that would allow students to participate in exchanges with the local school division in Guangzhou, China. (Supplied/Wolf Creek Public Schools)

World Health Organization declares global emergency over Chinese coronavirus

BEIJING (AP) - The World Health Organization declared the outbreak sparked by a new virus in China that has been exported to more than a dozen countries as a global emergency Thursday after the number...

Jan 30, 2020 A doctor puts on a protective suit and goggles at a hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. China counted 170 deaths from a new virus Thursday and more countries reported infections, including some spread locally, as foreign evacuees from China's worst-hit region returned home to medical observation and even isolation. (AP)

RDC flies Bell Let's Talk flag

January 29 marks the annual Bell Let's Talk Day, a day to reduce the stigma surrounding mental illness and to talk about it openly.For every tweet, retweet, text, call or social media view, Bell Canad...

Jan 29, 2020 (rdnewsNOW/Sheldon Spackman)

First presumptive case of coronavirus recorded in B.C.

VICTORIA - Health officials have confirmed the first presumptive case of coronavirus in B.C.Provincial health officer Bonnie Henry said the case involves a man in his 40s who lives in the Vancouver Co...

Jan 28, 2020 Image Credit: Dmitryi Epov | Dreamstime.com

Rebels-Hurricanes blood donor challenge coming down to the wire

The annual blood donation challenge between the Red Deer Rebels and Lethbridge Hurricanes is as close as it gets heading into its final week. After a significant boost in blood donations in Lethbridge...

Jan 27, 2020

Billboard pleas: Alberta man hopes sign will find him a kidney donor

CARBON, Alta. - The large billboard overlooking the town of Drumheller in east-central Alberta is hard to miss. Next to a photo of a smiling man in a blue shirt, his arms crossed, the sign reads:...

Jan 27, 2020

Ontario confirms second coronavirus case, wife of first case

TORONTO - Public health officials in Ontario are reporting a second presumptive case of the new coronavirus.They said the wife of the man who became the first case of the illness in Canada has also te...

Jan 27, 2020

Coronavirus patient showed mild symptoms on flight

OTTAWA - The first Canadian patient diagnosed with a novel form of coronavirus began showing signs of illness on the plane that brought him back from the disease's epicentre., Canada's Chief Public He...

Jan 26, 2020