Health

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding that many scientists say will endanger patients and cost jobs.

CALGARY — A Calgary mother convicted of assaulting her two-year-old daughter, causing broken bones, and leaving the child with untreated burns has had her appeal dismissed.

HALIFAX — Criminologists say the deaths of two men in Halifax after they were Tasered by police officers are a reminder that conducted energy weapons can be lethal and that police are rarely the appropriate people to respond to mental health crises.

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's top public health agency says about 180 employees who were laid off two weeks ago can come back to work.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 650 Marines and Army soldiers who were forced out of the military for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine have so far expressed interest in returning to the force under an executive order from President Donald Trump , offic

FT SASKATCHEWAN, Alta. — An Alberta Mountie has been charged and placed on administrative duties after a person was punched during a mental health call. Const. Justin Forster is facing one count of assault causing bodily harm.

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Stephen Watson served in the Marines for 22 years and receives care through the Department of Veterans Affairs for a traumatic brain injury.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A health economist who once famously clashed with officials at the National Institutes of Health and now is the nominee to lead the agency faced questions from senators from both parties Wednesday about drastic funding cuts and rese

Makers of the popular obesity treatments Wegovy and Zepbound are cutting prices for people without insurance . Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk said Wednesday that it will drop prices 23% for all doses of Wegovy.

It’s been almost five years, but family members of Canadians who died of COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic often feel as if they are frozen in 2020.