Health

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government promised what it called the biggest health-care capital investment in the province's history on Wednesday, ahead of a provincial election campaign in which health care is expected to be a top issue.

MILAN (AP) — During Europe's heat wave last month, Floriana Peroni’s vintage clothing store had to close for a week.

A federal judge has ruled that it would violate Idaho medical providers' free speech rights to sanction them for referring patients to out-of-state abortion services, rejecting the state attorney general’s interpretation of Idaho’s abortion ban.

In early 2022, nearly 200,000 Malawians were displaced after two tropical storms struck the southeastern part of Africa barely a month apart. Sixty-four people died.

VANCOUVER — A cyberattack in British Columbia may have compromised the personal information of thousands of health-care workers, including those the province is trying to recruit to fill much-needed jobs.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s six abortion clinics have stopped providing abortions ahead of the state’s near-total abortion ban officially taking effect and as a petition is pending before the state’s high court asking it to keep the ban on hold whi

BALTIMORE (AP) — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company that they accused of

York Region is advising people who received certain services at a Richmond Hill, Ont., clinic to get tested for hepatitis and HIV.

OTTAWA — A tribunal that is part of the military grievance process has found that the Canadian Armed Forces COVID-19 vaccine policy violated its members' Charter rights.