Tag Archives: health

BURNABY, B.C. - The brains of older adults feel a sense of reward when listening to music, even if it's a song they don't particularly like, a researcher at British Columbia's Simon Fraser University ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal appeals court heard arguments on Thursday over a decades-old Tennessee policy that does not allow transgender people to change the sex designation on their birth cert...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina's ban on abortions after roughly six weeks, before many women know they are pregnant, returned to court Thursday with Planned Parenthood and the state arguing over...

The Government of Saskatchewan is stepping back from a decision which would've made a Saskatoon family dip into their own pockets to pay for their travel to Toronto in order to get health care for the...

The weight-loss drug Wegovy, made by the manufacturers of Ozempic, will be available to patients in Canada starting Monday, the company says. Novo Nordisk's weekly injection is approved for weight los...

PHOENIX (AP) - Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has relegated a Civil War-era ban on most abortions to the past by signing a bill Thursday to repeal it. Hobbs says the move is just the beginning of...

Two years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation's abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming the nation's courts, legislat...

PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Legislature approved a repeal of a long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions Wednesday, sending the bill to Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs, who is expected to sign it. Two Repub...

The Government of Saskatchewan says it will offer financial assistance to families when they need to leave the province to get health care for their children. The move comes after Kaitlyn Soron and he...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government is spending more money to recruit and retain health-science workers, while expanding an incentive program to dozens more rural communities. Health Minister ...