Health

VICTORIA — The latest COVID-19 numbers from the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control show the number of people admitted to hospital with the illness is declining. The weekly report says 142 people were hospitalized during the week of Sept.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Almost three months after Roe v. Wade was overturned , the landscape of abortion access is still shifting significantly in some states, sometimes very quickly.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Suzy Fitzgerald remembers looking out the windows as wildfire flames surrounded the hospital where she worked. “We had fire in all three directions,” Fitzgerald recalled. “I thought, ‘Oh gosh, this is serious.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Health officials in Newfoundland and Labrador have identified 15 patients needing further consultation, as a review of thousands of mammograms viewed on incorrect monitors continues across the province.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police on Thursday arrested two teenage boys in connection with the death of a 15-year-old girl who overdosed in a restroom at her high school after buying pills possibly laced with fentanyl on campus, authorities said.

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas anesthesiologist was arrested on charges alleging that he injected nerve-blocking agents and other drugs into bags of intravenous fluids at the surgical center where he works, which led to the death of a co-worker and caused ca

Jamie Daw drew a 70 kilometre-wide radius on a map this week to show her mother how far she'd have to drive to visit her ailing husband if he's moved to a nursing home not of his choosing under a new provincial law.

OTTAWA — Mental-health providers and others are reacting with shock and concern after an internal government audit uncovered significant problems with Ottawa's administration of hundreds of millions of dollars in medical marijuana for veterans.

RANKIN INLET, Nunavut — Health officials in Nunavut are warning residents of a sewage spill in Rankin Inlet.