Tag Archives: Health

BOSTON - Did an artificial-intelligence system beat human doctors in warning the world of a severe coronavirus outbreak in China? In a narrow sense, yes. But what the humans lacked in sheer speed, the...

BEIJING - New virus cases in China have again declined, up just 394, after authorities on Thursday again changed how they count new daily infections. They are now discounting cases that came back nega...

PORT HURON, Mich. - U.S. border officials say they've seized a human brain that was found in a Canadian mail truck originating in Toronto. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said ...

A Weyburn couple is in self-isolation in their home after a month-long cruise that went off the rails over fears of the coronavirus. In mid-January Marilyn and Tom Schuck left Weyburn and headed to Si...

OTTAWA - Healthy Canadians from the Diamond Princess cruise ship will shortly be heading home, according to Canada's foreign affairs minister, after weeks under quarantine for the novel coronavir...

VICTORIA - The chairman of the Childhood Obesity Foundation says a new tax on sugary soda will improve the health of British Columbia's children. Dr. Tom Warshawski says studies show sugary drinks con...

VANCOUVER - The man who was British Columbia's first case of the new coronavirus has fully recovered, is considered cured and health officials say he longer needs to be in isolation. Provinc...

VIENTIANE, Laos - China's top diplomat assured his Southeast Asian counterparts on Wednesday that the situation in a central Chinese province where the outbreak of a new virus began has "been brought ...

LONDON - Surgeons at King's College Hospital in London removed a brain tumour from a woman who played the violin during the procedure. Doctors for violinist Dagmar Turner, 53, mapped her brain before ...

Global Affairs says the departure date for a plane that will carry Canadians home from a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan is yet to be confirmed. Spokeswoman Barbara Harvey says the departure...