Category Archives: Health
Saskatchewan prepares to reopen Sunday, offers public health guidance
REGINA — Saskatchewan is offering COVID-19 public safety guidance as the province prepares to fully reopen on Sunday. A public health order requiring masks indoors will be lifted, but the government says unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people sho...
As New York salutes health workers, Missouri fights a surge
New York held a ticker-tape parade Wednesday for the health care workers and others who helped the city pull through the darkest days of COVID-19, while authorities in Missouri struggled to beat back a surge blamed on the fast-spreading delta
$1B in illegal pot seized in largest Los Angeles County bust
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The largest illegal marijuana bust in Los Angeles County history — which netted 373,000 plants that would ultimately have been worth $1 billion on the street — eradicated only a fraction of the illicit grows in
South Carolina gov: Abortion order ‘oversteps’ federal power
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's governor wants a new abortion law to take effect, arguing Wednesday that a judge's decision to put the whole measure — and not just the parts being challenged in court — on hold during
Manitoba’s supply of COVID-19 vaccines set to exceed daily demand: health officials
WINNIPEG — Manitoba health officials say the province is about to reach a new marker in the pandemic — the supply of COVID-19 vaccines is set to exceed demand on a daily basis. Johanu Botha, co-lead of the provincial vaccination team,
COVID-19 outbreak linked to Oakville gym operating under physical therapy exemption
An Ontario gym operating using a physical therapy exemption has been ordered to shut down after being linked to a COVID-19 outbreak that could force as many as 400 people to self-isolate. Halton Region Public Health said it is aware
UN agency begins to distribute food rations in Venezuela
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The families of Venezuelan school children living in poverty this week began receiving food rations from a United Nations agency.
Alberta finance minister, health provider want to cut pay to nurses
EDMONTON — The Alberta government wants to cut the wages of nurses by three per cent to help control spending and the head of the union representing them says that's a blow to morale already low due to the COVID-19
Pharmacy exec resentenced to 14 years in meningitis outbreak
BOSTON (AP) — A founder of a now-defunct Massachusetts pharmaceutical facility responsible for a deadly meningitis outbreak will spend 14 and a half years behind bars, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, lengthening his initial punishment of nine years th...
Alaska governor recall lacks signatures nearly 2 years in
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A group seeking Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy's ouster has yet to gather enough signatures to force a recall election, nearly two years after getting started and with just over a year before the 2022 primary.
