Students turn to prescription drugs to help focus
By Katrina Geenevasen They’re being coined as smart drugs. In an effort to improve grades, more and more secondary and post-secondary students are using prescription drugs they don’t really need.[…]
By Katrina Geenevasen They’re being coined as smart drugs. In an effort to improve grades, more and more secondary and post-secondary students are using prescription drugs they don’t really need.[…]
By Renée Rodgers Tammy O’Rourke, a local nurse practitioner, could see something had to be done to improve healthcare in the area. She recognized many people were without family doctors,[…]
By Ashliegh Gehl A proposal to kill off large number of mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus had councillors buzzing at Picton’s Shire Hall Tuesday night. Eric Serwotka, of the Hastings[…]
By Steph Crosier A Picton doctor, professor and father who lives his life trying to make a difference will receive the Order of Canada. Dr. Robert Younghusband McMurtry, 71, will[…]
By Steph Crosier Local optometrists support a program by the McGuinty government to promote eye exams for junior kindergarteners. The program will spread awareness to parents who may not know[…]
More young children are drowning in Canada according to the Canadian Lifesaving Society. Swimming lessons help keep children safe. QNet’s Renée Rodgers reports from the Quinte West YMCA. No related[…]
By Renée Rodgers Nina Jaenicke from Brighton knows more small children are drowning in Canada and she isn’t taking chances with her little ones. She enrolled her daughter Madison Jaenicke,[…]
Cancer survivors, friends and family gathered at Loyalist College on June 17 to participate in the annual Relay for Life. The Relay for Life is a 12-hour overnight fundraiser with[…]
By Renée Rodgers The flicking of lighters was the only sound as more than 1,000 people gathered to light candles in honour of loved ones with cancer. More than 3,000[…]
By Jennifer Bowman A rise in alcohol and marijuana use may be connected to the recession, says the author of a provincial survey. Dr. Robert Mann is the senior scientist[…]