Tag Archives: Health
Compliments chicken strips recalled due to possible Salmonella contamination
OTTAWA - Sofina Foods Inc. is recalling Compliments brand Chicken Strips from the marketplace to avoid possible Salmonella illnesses.The Public Health Agency of Canada says it's investigating an outbr...
May 25, 2019 Image Credit: Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Exploring the potential for a supportive cancer care centre in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - A local group is researching what it would take to bring a supportive cancer care centre to Kamloops. The effort is part of a larger campaign to help cancer patients navigate the care they ...
May 24, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Chad Klassen
BC Coroners report showing decade high motorcyclist fatalities puts safety into focus
KAMLOOPS - The BC Coroners Service recently released a count of how many motorcyclist deaths occurred in B.C in 2018, and the results were a dramatic shift from the previous year. Data shows the numbe...
May 23, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
CHARBONNEAU: Sometimes it's not easy being a pro-vaxxer
DESPITE THE FACT THAT VACCINES have saved uncountable lives and virtually wiped out smallpox, polio, tetanus and rabies, vaccine risks exist. When those risks result in death, people lose trust in all...
May 23, 2019 Image Credit: Felipe Caparros Cruz / Dreamstime.com
Barriere mayor hopeful water will return to normal within the next week
BARRIERE, B.C. - After weeks of inconsistent manganese levels in Barriere drinking water, the district's mayor is hopeful for a solution.Ward Stamer says levels haven't gone up higher in the past seve...
May 22, 2019 Image Credit: Dreamstime
Terrace to get new $447.5 million state-of-the-art hospital
TERRACE, B.C. - Terrace will be upgrading their current 78-bed hospital to a state-of-the-art one more than double its size. The business plan for the $447.5 million new Mills Memorial Hospital was co...
May 21, 2019 Image Credit: CKPG Today
Fentanyl test strips and drug identification machine worthwhile for at-risk substance users
KAMLOOPS - For nearly a year, ASK Wellness has been giving people who use drugs in Kamloops a chance to know what exactly is in their substances. The fentanyl test strip pilot program, along with a ne...
May 16, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Dylana Milobar
Ashcroft emergency department to close temporarily for fifth time this year
ASHCROFT, B.C. - Yet another closure is expected for the Ashcroft emergency department. Interior Health says the Ashcroft Hospital and Community Health Care Centre's emergency department is facing lim...
May 16, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Kamloops one of several communities to partake in at-home drug checking pilot program
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops will be one of several communities taking part in a drug checking pilot program.Jessica Bridgeman with Interior Health says this new research project provides people who use substa...
May 15, 2019 Image Credit: Dreamstime
Overdose deaths up in Interior Health Authority, down provincially
There's been a significant decrease so far this year in the number of people dying from overdose in British Columbia. New numbers from the BC Coroners Service show there were 104 suspected overdose de...
May 15, 2019 Image Credit: Paulus Rusyanto | Dreamstime
