Health

TORONTO — A support agency for survivors of childhood sexual abuse says it's seen a surge in calls since Alice Munro's daughter went public a month ago with her story of abuse by her stepfather.

Dr. Jatinder Baidwan's appointment follows the retirement of Lisa Lapointe earlier this year.

The parents of a Kentucky baby who died last fall after drinking bacteria-tainted infant formula are the latest to sue Abbott Nutrition, the manufacturer at the heart of a 2022 crisis that left millions of Americans scrambling to feed their children.

BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Beijing has ruled against an unmarried Chinese woman's right to freeze her eggs, ending a fight for reproductive services that lasted six years and drew national attention.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An agricultural company made the surprise decision Tuesday to cancel a project to build a massive grain terminal in a historic Black town in Louisiana's “Cancer Alley," a heavily industrialized stretch of land along the Mississippi

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday he will convene an expert group to determine if the increasing spread of the mpox virus in Africa warrants being declared a global emergency.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — When Amanda Taylor lived in Arizona, she used medical cannabis to relieve the symptoms of her multiple sclerosis, gastroparesis and other ailments. She returned to Alabama to advocate for medical cannabis in her home state.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is providing $20 million over two years to support travel and lodging for cancer patients in the province.

OTTAWA — More than three decades after Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta began asking for funding to better understand if pollution from the oilsands was making their people sick, the federal government is funding a study to do just that.

The number of women getting abortions in the U.S.