Category Archives: Science
Ontario NDP promises to cover prescription birth control under OHIP
TORONTO — Prescription birth control would be fully covered by Ontario if the New Democrats win the June 2 election, the party promised Thursday. Leader Andrea Horwath said her plan would cover all prescription contraception, including emergency birth ...
Australian opposition leader gets COVID while campaigning
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s opposition leader said he tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday in the second week of a campaign ahead of the May 21 election.
Biden drug control plan stresses harm reduction, treatment
President Joe Biden is sending his administration’s first national drug control strategy to Congress as the U.S. overdose death toll hit a new record of nearly 107,000 during the past 12 months.
WHO says global COVID cases, deaths declined again last week
BERLIN (AP) — The World Health Organization says that the number of reported new COVID-19 cases worldwide decreased by nearly a quarter last week, continuing a decline since the end of March.
EXPLAINER: How cryptocurrencies work (and how they don’t)
NEW YORK (AP) — The first and most popular cryptocurrency, bitcoin, launched more than a decade ago. Yet for all the relentless buzz, relatively few are well versed in cryptocurrencies or the blockchain, the technology on which they're built.
Surprisingly low Shanghai COVID death count spurs questions
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Lu Muying died on April 1 in a government quarantine facility in Shanghai, with her family on the phone as doctors tried to resuscitate her. She had tested positive for COVID-19 in late March and was
Justice Dept. to appeal order voiding travel mask mandate
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is filing an appeal seeking to overturn a judge’s order that voided the federal mask mandate on planes and trains and in travel hubs, officials said.
Parents challenge law outlawing treatment of trans kids
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Parents of transgender teens filed a lawsuit Tuesday attempting to overturn an Alabama law that makes it a crime for doctors to treat trans people under 19 with puberty blockers or hormones to help affirm their
Alberta health minister says latest COVID-19 variant may have reached a plateau
EDMONTON — The Alberta government says the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase in the province but cases with the latest variant of the virus may have reached a plateau. Health Minister Jason Copping says hospitalizations were up three ...
‘Life-changing’ cystic fibrosis drug for children approved by Health Canada: charity
TORONTO — A drug considered the "single greatest innovation in the history of cystic fibrosis" has been approved in Canada for children aged six to 11. Cystic Fibrosis Canada says in a news release that Health Canada has approved Trikafta for
