Health

HALIFAX — Richard MacInnis lives with the haunting memory of finding his friend's body in a Halifax jail cell. That experience at the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility on Jan.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has reported two new cases of polio in its southern and eastern provinces, health officials said on Friday, posing a setback to the country’s efforts to eradicate a disease that remains endemic only in Pakistan and neighbori

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa lawmakers became the first in the nation to approve legislation removing gender identity protections from the state’s civil rights code Thursday, despite massive protests by opponents who say it could expose transgender p

BANGKOK (AP) — The U.S. registered its first death from measles since 2015 this week, as a child who wasn’t vaccinated died in a measles outbreak in Texas . Normally, most U.S. cases are brought into the country by people who have traveled overseas.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The number of babies born in South Korea rebounded for the first time in nine years in 2024, welcome news for a country grappling with one of the the world’s most serious demographic crises .

Seven years after promising to add capacity in regional health authorities to license, monitor, and investigate childcare facilities, the British Columbia government doesn't know if it has done those things, the province's acting auditor general says

WASHINGTON (AP) — This year’s harsh flu season – the most intense in 15 years – has federal health officials trying to understand if it sparked an increase in a rare but life-threatening brain complication in children.

OTTAWA — Manitoba became the first province to officially join Ottawa's pharmacare program on Thursday, giving it access to federal funding to cover the cost of birth control and diabetes medications as well as hormone replacement therapy for menopau

TORONTO — Ontario identified 78 new measles cases over the course of two weeks, public health officials said Thursday, calling it the largest outbreak the province has seen in almost 30 years.

A new government report adds to evidence that the HPV vaccine , once called dangerous by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is preventing cervical cancer in young women.