Health

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is calling on people to exercise renewed caution about COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of getting booster shots for those who are eligible and wearing masks indoors as two new highly transmissible varia

FREDERICTON — The minimum age of eligibility for second COVID-19 boosters in New Brunswick has been dropped to 18 from 50, health officials said Tuesday, but they stopped short of declaring that the province was about to enter another wave of disease

EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it is changing how it tests people for COVID-19. Starting next week, Albertans who need a PCR test to inform their medical treatment must have a referral from a health-care professional.

CHARLOTTETOWN — Health officials in Prince Edward Island are reporting another COVID-19-related death. The death of a person over the age of 80 is the 46th such death in the province since the start of the pandemic.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Opioid makers Allergan and Teva have agreed to pay $54 million in cash and overdose reversal drugs to settle a federal lawsuit brought by San Francisco alleging the drug industry fueled an overdose and addiction surge that create

New York researchers transplanted pig hearts into two brain-dead people over the last month, the latest in a string of developments in the long quest to one day save human lives with animal organs.

TORONTO — As Canada's premiers call for more health funding from Ottawa, Ontario's opposition parties are also urging the province's Progressive Conservative government to spend more on health services in light of continued strain on emergency rooms.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ilona Khomenko was widowed nearly two months ago when her husband died in fighting in Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine. Now, she's looking to make a difference on the battlefield.

NEW YORK (AP) — The toll of drug-resistant “superbug” infections worsened during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.

LONDON (AP) — British health officials say there have now been 1,735 confirmed cases of monkeypox and that three-quarters of those cases are in London, according to data released on Tuesday.