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The Misericordia Community Hospitals new emergency department will open at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.

The Misericordia Community Hospitals new emergency department will open at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.

The Grey Nuns Community Hospital in southeast Edmonton is not accepting new patients for its Insulin Pump Therapy program for six months.

One of two Insulin Pump Therapy Program sites in the Edmonton region says it is is temporarily pausing new admissions to allow it to catch up on a backlog of new patients.

The University Hospital Foundations Festival of Trees, soon kicking off, is aiming to raise $2.4 million for two different causes this year.

A total of 14 Alberta Health Services sites are now using the enhanced masking directive two weeks after it was put in place by the provincial health authority.

Alberta Health Services issued an alert Tuesday night after it confirmed a worker at two restaurants in the Edmonton International Airport has contracted hepatitis A.

Newly released data from Albertas health ministry shows that 161 people died from drug poisonings in June of this year — the highest number of deaths of any June on record and up by 39 deaths compared to the same month last year.

Anesthesiologists cover a critical component of surgical care by providing pain management, but some of these specialists say there arent enough of them in the province to provide efficient patient care.

STI rates on the rise in Alberta, drawing calls for an expanded public health response