Health

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A bill that would allow South Carolina to buy the drugs needed for lethal injection without revealing the name of the company who sells them will soon be heading for the governor's desk.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.

Quebec's human rights commission is investigating reports that the province's youth protection services failed to act on a suspected case of child genital mutilation.

Courts this week blocked abortion restrictions from taking effect in two states, while lawmakers in a third are forging ahead with a plan for a new ban that's less stringent than most.

HALIFAX — Bonuses of $10,000 have lured 148 nurses back into Nova Scotia’s public system, the province’s health minister said Thursday. Michelle Thompson said the nurses who agreed to fill vacant positions include retired, casual and travel nurses.

There’s a shortage of monkeys available for medical research and the U.S. should expand its breeding programs rather than rely on international suppliers to solve it, an influential scientific advisory panel said Thursday.

MADISON, Wis.

SACRAMENTO, Calif.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the nation's No. 4 cause, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.

CAMBRIDGE, Ont. — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced that Moderna Inc. is partnering with a facility in Cambridge, Ont., to complete the final steps of manufacturing for its mRNA vaccines.