News/Canada/New Brunswick (Page 2)

New Brunswick Dr. Sophia Halassy is settling into her new job as an obstetrician-gynecologist at a Moncton-area hospital, helping to tackle a years-long waiting list of desperate patients. Her return home from the United States was years in the making. Province needs to streamline licensing process and post more positions,Continue Reading

New Brunswick Horizon Health has unveiled what the Holt government is calling the first of 30 promised collaborative care clinics that aim to transform the delivery of primary care in New Brunswick. Horizon clinic on north side will take on 1,600 more patients to reduce pressure on ERs Jacques PoitrasContinue Reading

New Brunswick The exoskeleton is a battery-operated, wearable device that gives patients with minimal movement in their legs the ability to walk. Josh Nevers, who has a spinal cord injury, using one for rehabilitation at Stan Cassidy Centre in Fredericton Sam Farley · CBC News · Posted: Apr 02, 2025 5:00 AMContinue Reading

New Brunswick Residents of Campobello Island rely heavily on crossing the bridge into Lubec, Maine, for necessities. Now, they’re caught in the middle of the trade war with the U.S., forced to pay the retaliatory tariffs imposed by Canada when they bring things home. Residents ask Canadian government to exemptContinue Reading

When Susannah McKenzie-Sutter heard her cousin in Ontario needed a kidney transplant, the 28-year-old Saint John woman didn’t hesitate to offer one of hers. She hasn’t kept in close touch with McKenzie Smith in recent years but has fond childhood memories of spending summers with her “cool older cousin.”  Preliminary blood testsContinue Reading

The New Brunswick government has begun the “data analysis phase” of its investigation into undiagnosed neurological symptoms affecting hundreds of people in seven provinces and whether environmental substances, such as heavy metals and pesticides, are a factor. Dr. Yves Léger, the chief medical officer of health, made the announcement during a briefingContinue Reading

New Brunswick Jody Bourgoin said he tried to warn staff about diesel in the coffee shop’s water back in October, more than two months before the Tim Hortons on Beardsley Road was closed due to a significant diesel leak from Murray’s Irving gas station next door.  Province says it will investigate diesel leakContinue Reading

New Brunswick Lee Goguen says her parents’ decision to receive medical assistance in dying at Saint John Regional Hospital gave the couple, who were both suffering from cancer, a merciful and peaceful death. ‘I never felt this much closure,’ Lee Goguen says of her parents’ decision to die together RachelContinue Reading

New Brunswick A Saint John auction house has opened bidding for a collection of ancient megalodon shark teeth. Jones Auction House taking bids on New Brunswicker’s collection of 6 teeth from extinct species Isabelle Leger · CBC News · Posted: Mar 20, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: MarchContinue Reading