Sick babies cost Nunavut, Canada millions, study finds
A new study says Inuit children’s hospital admissions for respiratory illnesses such as RSV, pneumonia or bronchitis are costing Northern
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Could traditional healing save Finland billions?
Practitioners of Kalevala limb-adjustment, a traditional healing method named after the Finnish national epic, seek approval by the medical establishment.
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Children in Arviat, Nunavut eat fewer than 3 fruit per month
It seems children in the community of Arviat in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut are eating junk food and
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Swedish municipality indicted for dirty water
The municipality of Östersund in central Sweden was indicted for environment crimes on Tuesday, after half the inhabitants became sick
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Private hospital in Finland hopes to attract Russian medical tourists
Besides delivering babies, the new Lappeenranta hospital in southeast Finland will offer treatments for cancer and eye diseases — with
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Nunavut, Canada patients waiting up to a year for eye exams
Unlike every other province and territory in Canada, the eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut does not have its own optometrist
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Canada’s Northwest Territories investigating medevac response time
The health department in Canada’s Northwest Territories is investigating why it took five hours for a medevac to arrive in
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Study shines light on suicide crisis in Canada’s eastern Arctic
People who died by suicide in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut were more likely to have experienced childhood physical
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Baby boomers’ alcohol “timebomb” set to hit Finland
Experts fear that retiring baby boomers may over indulge to such an extent that Finland could soon be forced to
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Canada out of Northern health group
A report in the Canadian newspaper Embassy says Canada has pulled out of the Northern Dimension Partnership on Public Health
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