Northern youth suicide prevention project receives funds

Saskatchewan plans to hire health promotion co-ordinators with funding from the federal government.

This comes after $300,000 was given from Health Canada’s Aboriginal Health Transition Fund to a joint youth suicide prevention project between the Ministry of Health and the Métis Nation was announced Wednesday.

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Latent TB needs monitoring in Inuit patients: ITK

Active tuberculosis, a huge problem in Canada's North, is being monitored by health officials, however, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami's National Inuit Committee on Health is calling for more attention to be paid to latent tuberculosis infections.
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Traditional Inuit Knowledge Combines With Science to Shape Arctic Weather Insights

Using skills passed down through generations, Inuit forecasters living in the Canadian Arctic look to the sky to tell by the way the wind scatters a cloud whether a storm is on the horizon or if it's safe to go on a hunt.
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Mercury poisoning lingers decades after Ontario river deemed safe

The mercury poisoning dates back to 1970, when excessive levels of the toxin — as well as such symptoms as vision loss, chronic pain and tremors — were recorded in many residents of Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong, about 90 kilometres northeast of Kenora, Ont.
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Assembly of First Nations Welcomes Urban Aboriginal Peoples Study: "Survey Reinforces First Nations Priorities"

The report, prepared by the Environics Institute, focuses on the identities, experiences, values and aspiration of Aboriginal peoples - First Nations, Métis and Inuit - residing in cities.
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Public Health Agency of Canada Updates: Information on Children Less Than Five Years of Age and the H1N1 Flu Virus

Children older than six months and under the age of three years and children between the ages of three and nine years with chronic health conditions who have already received a single half-dose of H1N1 flu vaccine do not require a second dose at this time as the H1N1 flu virus is not presently circulating.
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