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  FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick’s department of health confirms that a report into emergency room services has been given to Health Minister Dorothy Shephard. The review was ordered after the death of 16-year-old Lexi Daken. Daken waited in the Everett Chalmers Hospital emergency room in Fredericton for over eight hours with her guidance counsellor to see a psychiatrist – and never saw one. She died by suicide six days later, on Feb. 24. Her family believes had she gotten the help she needed at the hospital E.R., she would still be alive. Two days after her death, the vice-presiden...

Posted: Apr 07, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: April 7 Roger Ellis on his birthday in 2020. Ellis has displayed symptoms of New Brunswick's mystery neurological disease for two years now and his son, Steve, is upset that residents only learned of the disease in a leaked email last month.(Submitted by Steve Ellis)

The Globe and Mail Kevin Bissett Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file ... This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Another person believed to have had a mysterious neurological syndrome in New Brunswick has died. There have now been six deaths and 44 suspected cases linked to the mystery brain disease, health officials in the province confirmed Wednesday. The first case dates to 2015 but wasn’t identified until early 2020, w...

  FREDERICTON -- Another person believed to have had a mysterious neurological syndrome in New Brunswick has died. There have now been six deaths and 44 suspected cases linked to the mystery brain disease, health officials in the province confirmed Wednesday. The first case dates to 2015 but wasn't identified until early 2020, when a cluster of cases was detected by the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System, operated by the Public Health Agency of Canada. The agency conducts national surveillance for prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which cause neurologic sympto...

Posted: Mar 17, 2021 6:00 AM AT | Last Updated: March 17 Hillary Hooper, seen here with her beloved dog, Blue, died by suicide at the Saint John Regional Hospital in December after numerous attempts to get help for depression. (Submitted by Patty Borthwick) Hillary Hooper was so desperate to find help for her depression last September that she took her boyfriend's gun in the middle of the night, drove to the local high school, cut both of her wrists and called 911.  The 27-year-old resident of St. George, N.B., said she had a gun and wanted to kill herself. She pleaded for help. Leaving the...