public health

Emergency departments are seeing a surge in cases of a once-rare condition that causes relentless vomiting among youth who use cannabis

After far-off wildfires drove air quality in the region into high-risk territory last week, a Southwestern Ontario health unit has extended a special air quality statement.

HURON – Environment and Climate Change Canada has issued a special air quality statement as smoke from wildfires in the west begins clouding the Huron County area. The June 5  statement encompasses southern Huron County, Bluewater, Goderich, northern Huron County, Wingham and Blyth. According to a press release from Huron Perth public health, wildfire smoke […]

The public health office at the epicentre of Ontario’s measles outbreak has reported the lowest number of new infections in a week since April.

The London-area health unit at the epicentre of a provincewide measles outbreak is reporting more than 100 new infections in a week for the first time since the outbreak began in October. Southwestern Public Health reported 104 new measles cases in Elgin and Oxford counties, Woodstock and St. Thomas since May 8 on Thursday. The […]

A London-area pharmacist has been slapped with a three-month suspension over his dispensing of an emergency overdose prevention drug

As measles cases continue to rise, the London-area health unit urges parents to seek early vaccination for children under the age of five

A London-area public health office at the epicentre of a provincewide measles outbreak is reporting its largest weekly surge in cases of the highly infectious disease since it began recording weekly statistics.

A third Oxford County community has been issued a boil water advisory over the past two days by public health officials.

A Southwestern Ontario public-health office has issued a boil water advisory for a small community east of London. Southwestern Public Health, which oversees Oxford and Elgin counties and St. Thomas, on Tuesday issued the warning for all users of the Mount Elgin municipal water system in Oxford County after what officials called a pressure loss […]

The same debris that knocked out the power a few weeks ago could be used to make electricity.

Workers first discovered the spill last week. Remediation work is ongoing.