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Cancer prevention, screening efforts working, new projections suggest
A new study projecting declining rates of cancer cases and deaths in Canada demonstrates the success of prevention and early detection programs, but also highlights areas where more work is needed to save and prolong lives, researchers say.
May 13, 2024 9:56 AM
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Illness took away her voice. AI created a replica she carries in her phone
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The voice Alexis “Lexi” Bogan had before last summer was exuberant. She loved to belt out Taylor Swift and Zach Bryan ballads in the car. She laughed all the time. In high school, she was a soprano in the chorus.
May 13, 2024 7:52 AM
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Ontario's need for nurses, PSWs to top 33K and 50K by 2032: document
TORONTO — Ontario will need 33,200 more nurses and 50,853 more personal support workers by 2032, the government projects — figures it tried to keep secret but were obtained by The Canadian Press.
May 13, 2024 2:00 AM
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Violence is traumatizing Haitian kids. Now the country's breaking a taboo on mental health services
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Students often throw up or wet themselves when gunfire erupts outside their school in northern Port-au-Prince .
May 12, 2024 10:16 PM
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A rural Ugandan community is a hot spot for sickle cell disease. But one patient gives hope
MBALE, Uganda (AP) — Barbara Nabulo was one of three girls in her family. But when a sister died, her mother wailed at the funeral that she was left with just one and a half daughters.
May 12, 2024 12:05 AM
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Local governments struggle to distribute their share of billions from opioid settlements
Settlement money to help stem the decades-long opioid addiction and overdose epidemic is rolling out to small towns and big cities across the U.S., but advocates worry that chunks of it may be used in ways that don't make a dent in the crisis.
May 11, 2024 10:52 PM
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First person to receive a genetically modified pig kidney transplant dies nearly 2 months later
BOSTON (AP) — The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure, his family and the hospital that performed the surgery said Saturday.
May 11, 2024 7:19 PM
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Report shows decline of injury rate in Nova Scotia workplaces, rise in mental trauma
HALIFAX — The rate of injury to Nova Scotia workers continued to decline in 2023 and is down to half the rate recorded 20 years ago, a new report has found. The Nova Scotia Workers’ Compensation Board says the time-loss injury rate improved to 1.
May 11, 2024 2:04 PM
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A cyberattack forces a big US health system to divert ambulances and take records offline
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A cyberattack on the Ascension health system operating in 19 states across the U.S. forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone medical tests and blocked online access to patient records.
May 10, 2024 7:51 PM
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NYC policy on how long migrant families can stay in shelters was 'haphazard,' audit finds
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City policy imposing 60-day limits on shelter stays for migrant families was rolled out haphazardly over the past six months — with issues such as the city failing to notify pregnant women they may be exempt, a new audit by
May 10, 2024 4:48 PM
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