Tag Archives: Health

HALIFAX - Nova Scotians with diabetes will soon have access to government funding for glucose monitoring and greater access to the province's insulin pump program. Premier Tim Houston announced Wednes...

Rural parts of Saskatchewan are seeing a health-care crisis, with serious gaps in their systems and staff shortages prevalent throughout the province. That's the message from the Saskatchewan Associat...

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) - President Joe Biden "continues to be fit for duty," his doctor wrote Wednesday after conducting an annual physical that is being closely watched as the 81-year-old seeks reelectio...

TORONTO - Kirsten Watson was weeks away last year from losing access to potentially life-saving medication - a situation she found herself in because Ontario does not cover the cost of take-home cance...

South Dakota voters will decide this fall whether the state can impose work requirements on certain low-income people receiving Medicaid health care coverage, which would modify the program expansion ...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government's upcoming budget is to allocate $20 million over the next three years to advance plans for a stand-alone children's hospital in the provincial capital. Health Minist...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's Republican-majority Senate greenlit a bill on Tuesday that would make a video on fetal development produced by an anti-abortion group required viewing in publi...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Tory Beasley had dreamed of having three kids, and she and her husband turned to IVF after struggling with infertility. She was scheduled for an embryo transfer next week at an...

EDMONTON - Alberta's health minister is questioning the need for a national pharmacare plan, saying the province already has a comprehensive program for seniors, as well as for those who have low inco...

OTTAWA - The union representing front-line Mounties is urging the RCMP to move beyond "patchwork solutions" to ensure the mental health of officers amid concerns they face increasing risks to their we...