Health

MONTREAL — Quebec's Court of Appeal has ruled that a Montreal hospital can permanently remove a breathing tube from a child who has been in a coma since he fell into the family pool in June.

MADRID (AP) — Spaniards spent a record high amount on private health insurance last year, according to data released Wednesday, amid growing discontent with the country’s once-prized public health system. Spending in 2022 hit a total $11.

HALIFAX — The recent deaths of two people who waited hours to see doctors at Nova Scotia emergency departments have spurred the province to announce changes aimed at providing faster urgent care for patients.

Anti-abortion activists will have multiple reasons to celebrate — and some reasons for unease — when they gather Friday in Washington for the annual March for Life.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government says it will begin a targeted crackdown on nursing homes’ abuse of antipsychotic drugs and misdiagnoses of schizophrenia in patients.

CONCORD, N.H. — He was 6, in his first-grade class in Newport News, Virginia. He pointed a handgun at his teacher, police say, and then he pulled the trigger . And across the nation, people ... didn't quite know how to react.

WASHINGTON — It's become a reliably consistent sideshow in U.S. congressional politics: Democrats and Republicans battling over a self-imposed limit on federal borrowing, a feud that often leads to standoffs and protracted government shutdowns.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she won't introduce legislation to pardon those convicted of COVID-19 public health violations because she has been advised to let the courts handle it.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s premier says he agrees that work is needed to restore trust in the province’s health-care system after the recent deaths of two patients who had waited hours for care in hospital emergency departments.