Health

BOURG-DU-BOST, France — Millions of Americans mired in medical debt face difficult financial decisions every day — pay the debt or pay for rent, utilities and groceries. Some may even skip necessary health care for fear of sinking deeper into debt.

WHITEHORSE — Yukon's premier says federal health-care money specifically for the territories is "critical" to service delivery.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Plumes of smoke, questions about dead animals, worries about the drinking water.

VICTORIA — The federal health minister says he expects British Columbia and Ottawa to soon reach a flexible one-on-one agreement that improves health services for people needing care and those who provide that service.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Nearly one-quarter of Oklahomans receiving health care through Medicaid, about 300,000 people, will no longer be eligible by the end of this year, mostly because they or a parent earn too much to qualify, state health officials s

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people with medical debt on their credit reports fell by 8.2 million — or 17.9% — between 2020 and 2022, according to a report Tuesday from the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government has failed to meet its self-imposed deadline of significantly reducing the surgical backlog by February 2023, with 9,500 more people on the wait-list than targeted.

OTTAWA — Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says she wants Canada to consider expanding access to psychedelic drugs as medical treatments.

TORONTO — Ontario's non-profit nursing homes are being overcharged by nursing agencies, a long-term care association said Tuesday.

A few months after South Dakota banned abortion last year, April Matson drove more than nine hours to take a friend to a Colorado clinic to get the procedure.