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New program aims to increase cancer screening in First Nation women – CBC
The goal of the new campaign is to get more First Nations women talking about cancer screening Sep 21, 2016 While cervical cancer and mortality rates have been declining for…
DNA tests confirm second switched at birth case in northern Manitoba – APTN
September 21, 2016 NORWAY HOUSE, Man. — A second set of DNA tests have confirmed that two men were switched at birth at a hospital in northern Manitoba in 1975.…
Tribal leaders meet with feds in push against opioid abuse – CP
Source: The Associated Press Sep 20, 2016 By Russell Contreras THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. _ American Indian tribal leaders from northern New Mexico _ an area of the country devastated by heroin…
Liberals On Notice Over Treatment Of First Nation Children – Huffington Post
Sept 19, 2016 OTTAWA — The Canadian Human Rights Commission and two major First Nations groups are planning to ask a Federal Court judge to find the Liberal government in…
Neurological and birth defects haunt Wabaseemoong First Nation, decades after mercury dumping – CBC
Sep 20, 2016 People in community born without toes, an extra thumb, but few are compensated Forty-five years ago, mercury pollution from a pulp and paper mill poisoned hundreds of…
I wasn’t allowed to kiss my own grandchildren’: Sask. doctors call for emergency response to HIV crisis – StarPhoenix
Doctors from across Saskatchewan say the province’s rates of HIV infections have reached a critical point and a state of emergency should be declared. Saskatchewan’s HIV rates are double the…
Diabetes epidemic in indigenous populations’ highlights disparity – CBC
‘The alarm was on. People started working on it. But somehow the snooze button got pressed’ Sep 19, 2016 About eight in 10 Indigenous Canadians who are young adults will…
Suicide Prevention: I Want Other Families To Know What Ours Didn’t – Huffington Post Canada
Chronic Health Conditions, Inflammation And Major Depressive Disorder Imagine living with asthma (inflammatory disorder) and anaphylaxis (autoimmune disorder) almost from the time you were born. Then imagine growing up and…
Chris Selley: Shining a light on aboriginal suicides – National Post
September 15, 2016 The demand for national strategies to combat every problem under the sun is a signature feature of the Canadian political landscape, and it can be wearisome. Not…
‘A First World country with Third World rates’: Saskatchewan at the epicentre of HIV in Canada – National Post
Sept 15, 2016 PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — Saskatchewan is one of the few places in the industrialized world where people are still dying from AIDS and HIV. The province has…
