Once a year, nurses in Eeyou Istchee gather outside their home communities for a week of skills training. This year’s training included the unique opportunity to learn from the latest medical simulation technologies at McGill University’s Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning in Montreal.
On November 7, the Assembly of First Nations, the University of Ottawa and the Université de Montréal released the first draft of the decade-long study regarding First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment (FNFNES).
All eyes were on Chisasibi October 7 as Cree leaders and provincial ministers made two major announcements of great significance for the future of health care in Eeyou Istchee.
A seven-hour trip, three times a week to receive treatments in Chibougamau is the reality for dialysis patients living in Waswanipi, but a new home hemodialysis pilot project, launching in October, is looking to change all that.
With the fall moose hunt on the horizon, some alarming news is coming from the south and west of Eeyou Istchee.
After nine and a half years of running Lemon Cree, Theresa Ducharme says she finally feels like she has found the “missing link,” when it comes to changing people’s lives through her original fitness program
In May, Kevin Brousseau officially became a doctor when he graduated from the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM).
The return of Cree babies being born on Cree land – surrounded by the women in their family and community – is something Cree Elders have advocated for since it stopped in 1997.
A new study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal reveals that food insecurity in northern Canada skyrocketed after a policy change under the former Conservative government of Stephen Harper
Recently released results from a 2016 study reveal remarkable insights into the diet, nutrition and environment of First Nations peoples living on-reserve across Canada – who hadn’t been included in previous national health and nutrition studies.
