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OTTAWA - The "concerns and fears" dentists are expressing about a national dental-care plan are similar to those doctors had when Canada launched medicare in the 1960s, Health Minister Mark Holland sa...

WASHINGTON (AP) - For much of her life, Angela Crawford considered herself a fairly conservative Republican - and she voted that way. But then a wave of court rulings and Republican-led actions in sta...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - People who make physical or financial threats against others in Kansas to force them to get an abortion could spend a year in prison and be fined up to $10,000 under one of several...

A few weeks ago, Michele Campeau faced what seemed like an impossible decision: move her mom from a hospital bed to a long-term care home the family hated or pay $400 a day to remain at the health-car...

PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Supreme Court gave the go-ahead Tuesday to prepare to enforce a long-dormant law that bans nearly all abortions, drastically altering the legal landscape for terminating pre...

PHOENIX (AP) - Democrats pounced Tuesday on an Arizona Supreme Court ruling that permits enforcement of an 1864 law effectively banning abortion in the state, blaming former President Donald Trump and...

OTTAWA - Canada's dental associations, which say some of their members are reluctant to participate in the national dental care plan, are in fact just negotiating with Ottawa over the program, says fe...

FREDERICTON - A patient who showed up pale and short of breath at a Fredericton emergency department in 2022 was left to sit in the waiting room for nearly seven hours before he was found dead, slumpe...

People seeking medical assistance in Regina soon will have another option. The Saskatchewan government said Tuesday that construction on the new Regina Urgent Care Centre (UCC) at 1320 Albert St. is c...

Ottawa is setting up a $500-million fund to help community health organizations provide more mental health care to young people. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland made the announcement Tuesday in Ott...