Health

The new bilingual health centre in Whitehorse will not automatically accept Yukoners on the find-a-doctor program waitlist. There is a separate application process for the clinic. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)

Doctor waitlist swells to 3,341 Yukoners; won’t be matched with bilingual health clinic

No doctors hired to work at new bilingual health centre set to open Nov. 7

 

Ayesha Ahmad stocks up and checks in on the Yukon Period Pantry on Sept. 6. (Dana Hatherly/Yukon News)

Period pantry starts up in downtown Whitehorse

Free menstrual products now available in a brightly coloured cabinet outside 407 Black St.

 

Patty Hajdu, the federal minister of Indigenous Services, speaks to funding provided for the Council of Yukon First Nations Birth Worker Program and to make menstrual products available on July 27, 2022. (Stephanie Waddell/Yukon News)

Hiring planned for first CYFN birth workers

New program gets underway

 

The Carcross Health Centre serves Tagish and Carcross residents. (Lawrie Crawford/Yukon News)

Staffing challenges drive temporary closures of two Health Centres in rural Yukon

Health centre services expected to resume Monday Feb 21 in Teslin and Carcross

The Carcross Health Centre serves Tagish and Carcross residents. (Lawrie Crawford/Yukon News)
Crystal Schick/Yukon News file Runners in the Yukon Arctic Ultra marathon race down the Yukon River near the Marwell industrial area in Whitehorse on Feb. 3, 2019.

Cold-weather exercise hard on the lungs

Amy Kenny Special to the Yukon News It might make you feel…

  • Apr 11, 2021
Crystal Schick/Yukon News file Runners in the Yukon Arctic Ultra marathon race down the Yukon River near the Marwell industrial area in Whitehorse on Feb. 3, 2019.

Ultrasound services to be offered in Dawson, Watson Lake next year

A sonographer and mobile ultrasound kit will be visiting the community hospitals every other month

Without hemodialysis option, Yukon man returns home to die

Terry Coventry said he hopes the Yukon government will consider offering hemodialysis in the future

Yukon government releases terms of reference for health and social services review

Review panel’s final report will be delivered to YG in March 2020 instead of this October

Medical abortion now universally covered in the Yukon

Mifegymiso, a two-drug combo, is available in Whitehorse and three communities

About 350 Yukoners are waiting for cataract surgery

The News spoke to one person who has been waiting for almost two years to have the procedure done

Whooping cough cases continue to rise in the Yukon

‘It does not yet appear to have peaked’

  • Jul 17, 2017