Health Department

• N.S. privacy czar says Health Department improperly viewed and disclosed medical info

  The ruling stems from a complaint by a participant in the Driving While Impaired program who said his privacy had been violated.

  Canada

  Aug 30, 2021
  
• New Brunswick launches website to update public on mystery brain disease

  Investigators have so far ruled out Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other prion diseases.

  Health

  Apr 28, 2021
  
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• New Brunswick’s active COVID-19 cases drop as officials investigate possible case of U.K. variant

  With 35 new recoveries and only seven new cases of the virus being reported Friday there are now only 228 active cases of COVID-19 in New Brunswick.

  Health

  Feb 5, 2021
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• Nova Scotia to receive 1,950 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, dry run of distribution this week

  The exercise will test shipping, delivery, tracking and storage but not include any doses of the actual vaccine.

  Health

  Dec 7, 2020
• N.S. health minister to retire from politics after term ends

  Glavine said in a Thursday cabinet meeting he will not be re-offering in the next election and is choosing to retire from politics.

  Canada

  Nov 26, 2020
• New Brunswick declares salmonella outbreak after 13 confirmed cases, 2 under investigation

  Health officials say that a specific cause of the outbreak has not been identified.

  Health

  Aug 20, 2020
• Newfoundland and Labrador reports Atlantic region’s first COVID-19 death 

  The province's Health Department said Monday it would release more details at an afternoon news conference. No other Atlantic province has so far announced a death linked to the virus.

  Health

  Mar 30, 2020
• Care, medical attention inadequate in Halifax bedsore death case: internal inquiry 

  The report's findings say Parkstone Enhanced Care had clear guidelines on wound care for staff to follow, but there was "evidence that staff were not following those polices and procedures."

  Health

  Dec 17, 2019
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• Measles case confirmed in Saint John

  The case was confirmed in an individual who recently travelled internationally. 

  Health

  Apr 26, 2019
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• ‘It will not protect Nova Scotians’: Information commissioner urges for overhaul of Nova Scotia privacy law

  Catherine Tully made an impassioned plea on the need to overhaul Nova Scotia's privacy legislation during an appearance Wednesday before the legislature's public accounts committee.

  Politics

  Feb 27, 2019