Tag Archives: Health

TOKYO - A test event for the Tokyo Olympics scheduled for later this month that would have involved some non-Japanese athletes is being revamped because of fear of the spreading virus from China. It's...

BANGKOK - Thailand's government is scrambling to cope with new travel restrictions after Israel banned the citizens of Thailand and three other Asian countries and territories from entering over conce...

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 ...