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CALGARY - Alberta is expanding the screening process for all newborns in the province and supporting more research related to women's health. The Alberta Newborn Screening Program will now test for 26...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Advocates on Friday turned in more than twice the needed number of signatures to put a proposal to legalize abortion on the Missouri ballot this year. The campaign said it t...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's virtual health-care service is violating provincial law by failing to consistently provide services in French, the province's official languages commissioner says. Shirle...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance next year under a directive the Biden adminis...

TORONTO - Residents of a Guelph, Ont., long-term care home and their loved ones are shocked and afraid, says a representative of the families, after the home announced it's closing in part because it ...

PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs' signing of the repeal of a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions was a stirring occasion for the women working to ensure that the 19th century law remains ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi's Republican-led Legislature completed a last-ditch effort Thursday to revive a bill to regulate transgender people's use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories i...

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...