Health

Catastrophic hunger is so dire in two world hotspots that famine is imminent in northern Gaza and approaching in Haiti, with hundreds of thousands of people in both places struggling to avoid starvation.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada judge has struck down the state's limits on Medicaid coverage for abortion services, saying the restrictions violate equal rights protections.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A human body was found Tuesday in a western New York reservoir that supplies drinking water to parts of Rochester, prompting city officials to advise residents to boil their water before consuming.

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VICTORIA — British Columbia's auditor general has released audits on two key government programs aimed at curbing the death toll from the toxic-drug crisis.

Quebec has become the last province to reach an agreement in principle with the federal government on health-care funding. Under the proposed deal, the province would receive an additional $900 million a year over 10 years for health care.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Rachael Lang and her husband share the same last name as their biological daughter, but are not listed on her birth certificate.

VICTORIA — Nearly eight years after British Columbia declared a public-health emergency because of escalating overdoses, it still hasn't set a standard of care for those struggling with addiction, the auditor general says.

PHOENIX (AP) — A pregnant Arizona lawmaker who revealed in a speech at the state Senate that she was planning to get an abortion says she wanted to share with her colleagues and the public the practical effects of abortion restrictions passed over th

More than six in 10 of the abortions in the United States last year were done through medication, up from 53% in 2020, new research shows.