Category Archives: Science
Judge again blocks Ohio law regulating aborted fetal remains
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A judge again blocked an Ohio law Wednesday that would require fetal remains from surgical abortions to be cremated or buried. It was
Quebec’s COVID-19 hospitalizations could rise again, public health director warns
MONTREAL — Quebec's COVID-19 hospitalizations have been dropping, but that trend could change in the next few weeks as restrictions are eased in the province, the province's interim public health director said Wednesday. Dr. Luc Boileau said that the o...
Unvaccinated Quebec caregivers in court seeking access to long-term care homes
MONTREAL — A Quebec judge is expected to rule by Monday whether a provincial health order that prevents unvaccinated caregivers from entering nursing homes to care for relatives should be suspended. A Montreal lawyer was in court Wednesday contesting t...
CMA, activists call on Canada to speed vaccine access globally to stop new variants
OTTAWA — The Canadian Medical Association and a group of domestic and international activists are calling on the federal government to do more to boost COVID-19 vaccination efforts in less developed countries in order to end the pandemic. Raising the i...
Czech Republic to end mandatory COVID testing this month
PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic’s government has agreed to end mandatory coronavirus testing at schools and companies this month, the prime minister said Wednesday. The testing
UK’s embattled Johnson seeks reset with major economic plan
LONDON (AP) — The British government set out plans Wednesday to shift power and wealth to the left-behind regions of the country, a long-standing promise to the working-class voters who helped put Prime Minister Boris Johnson in office.
Italy military chaplain hits back at vaccine-mandate critic
ROME (AP) — Italy’s Catholic military chaplain has pushed back strongly against calls by a former Vatican ambassador for the armed forces to resist COVID-19 vaccine mandates, saying the ambassador’s “conspiracy theories” were a source of confusion and ...
‘Take back life’: More nations ease coronavirus restrictions
GENEVA — Late-night partying at clubs. Elbow-to-elbow seating in movie theaters. Going without masks in public, especially in Europe and North America: Step by step, many countries are easing their COVID-19 restrictions amid hopes the omicron wave may ...
Biden aims to reduce cancer deaths by 50% over next 25 years
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday set a 25-year timeline to cut in half the cancer death rate, a lofty but perhaps unrealistic goal that is meant to “supercharge” an initiative started when he was vice president to
‘All options on the table’ to end protest ensnaring Ottawa, says police chief
OTTAWA — The head of the Ottawa police says "all options are on the table," including calling in the military, to end the ongoing anti-vaccine mandate protest that some city councillors are calling an "occupation" of the capital. Chief Peter Sloly
