Health

Alberta expanding duties licenced practical nurses can perform

The Alberta government is expanding the duties that licenced practical nurses are allowed to perform. It's amending professional regulations to allow the province's 16,000 LPN's to administer blood, p...

Josh Hall Oct 17, 2019 Health Minister Tyler Shandro

Malarchuk brings message of hope to Schizophrenia fundraiser

Clint Malarchuk continues to make the best of the chance he's been given. Remembered most for returning to action just 10 days after having his jugular vein sliced by a skate while goaltending for the...

Oct 17, 2019

Red Deer Dream Centre denied by Municipal Planning Commission

Red Deer's Municipal Planning Commission (MPC) has denied an application to turn a former downtown into a drug and alcohol treatment facility.The decision regarding the proposed Red Deer Dream Centre ...

Oct 16, 2019 Members of the public turned out Wednesday to hear whether the Municipal Planning Commission would approve an application to turn a former nightclub into a drug and alcohol treatment centre.

Whooping cough outbreak declared in southern Alberta

Alberta Health Services has officially declared an outbreak of whooping cough in the western part of the AHS South Zone.This includes the communities of Lethbridge, Raymond and Lethbridge County and c...

Oct 16, 2019

Supports available from AHS, PCN following pregnancy, infant loss

RED DEER - Parents and families dealing with pregnancy loss or infant death are reminded that supports are available to them through Alberta Health Services (AHS) and the Red Deer Primary Care Network...

Oct 15, 2019 (Miguel Ugalde)

Alberta joining class-action lawsuit against opioid manufacturers, distributors

CALGARY - The Alberta government says it's joining a class-action lawsuit to recoup health-care costs related to the opioid crisis. Health Minister Tyler Shandro says there were almost 800 fatal overd...

Oct 15, 2019

Alberta Health Services to launch flu shot clinics week of Oct. 21

Alberta Health Services (AHS) has announced that Influenza Immunization Clinics this season will start the week of October 21.Officials say the flu vaccine will be offered free of charge to all Albert...

Oct 11, 2019 (Lethbridge News Now)

Province calls on Ottawa to reverse military health funding change

EDMONTON - Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro is calling on the federal government to reverse a decision that will see provinces pick up more of the cost of treating members of the military for med...

Oct 09, 2019 Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro

New youth detox facility in Red Deer nearing completion

Local youth struggling with drug and alcohol abuse will soon have a new place to turn for help in getting clean. After breaking ground last November, Red Deer's new Protection of Children Abusing Drug...

Andrew Snook Oct 09, 2019 (Photo: Alberta Infrastructure)

New pharmacy opens at Stettler hospital

The first phase of a $9.3 million renovation project at the Stettler Hospital and Care Centre is now complete, Alberta Health Services says, with the construction of a new pharmacy and gift shop, as w...

Oct 09, 2019