Skip to content

Health News

Winter can be a time of culinary abundance. Experts share tips on eating nutritiously

Winter can be a time of culinary abundance. Experts share tips on eating nutritiously

Winter is settling in across much of the U.S., erasing the freshness and vibrancy of months past. But the chilly season doesn't have to usher in weeks of lifeless, colorless dinner plates.
Read more >
How should the opioid settlements be spent? Those hit hardest often don’t have a say

How should the opioid settlements be spent? Those hit hardest often don’t have a say

People with substance use disorder across the country are not getting a formal say in how most of the approximately $50 billion in opioid lawsuit settlement money is being used to stem the crisis, a new analysis found.
Read more >
French-speaking LGBTQ+ activists want Canada to do more to address funding gap

French-speaking LGBTQ+ activists want Canada to do more to address funding gap

DOUALA — LGBTQ+ activists across francophone Africa say Western governments and global foundations are ignoring funding gaps for French-speaking countries where repression differs from English-speaking regions.
Read more >
How should the opioid settlements be spent? Those hit hardest often don’t have a say

How should the opioid settlements be spent? Those hit hardest often don’t have a say

People with substance use disorder across the country are not getting a formal say in how most of the approximately $50 billion in opioid lawsuit settlement money is being used to stem the crisis, a new analysis found.
Read more >
Morocco produces Africa’s first mpox tests as the continent tries to rely less on imports

Morocco produces Africa’s first mpox tests as the continent tries to rely less on imports

TAMESNA, Morocco (AP) — After African countries struggled to get testing kits during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials vowed to make the continent less dependent on imported medical supplies.
Read more >
Kenya LGBTQ+ activists try switching role of religion from oppression to empowerment

Kenya LGBTQ+ activists try switching role of religion from oppression to empowerment

KISUMU — Every Sunday in the Kenyan port city of Kisumu, an HIV-prevention group gathers dozens of gay and bisexual men for a service to help maintain their physical and spiritual health.
Read more >
Groups launch legal challenge against Alberta's new gender-affirming treatment law

Groups launch legal challenge against Alberta's new gender-affirming treatment law

EDMONTON — A pair of LGBTQ+ advocate organizations say they've followed through with their plan to challenge Alberta's three transgender bills in court, starting with one that bars doctors from providing gender-affirming treatment such as puberty blo
Read more >
Settlement offers nearly $9M to Louisiana nursing home residents kept in warehouse during hurricane

Settlement offers nearly $9M to Louisiana nursing home residents kept in warehouse during hurricane

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Some of the elderly residents of seven Louisiana nursing homes who were sent in 2021 to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse are being offered shares of a nearly $9 million settlement after they sued.
Read more >

Settlement offers nearly $9M to Louisiana nursing home residents kept in warehouse during hurricane

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Some of the elderly residents of seven Louisiana nursing homes who were sent in 2021 to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse are being offered shares of a nearly $9 million settlement after they sued.
Read more >
One dead, multiple injured in three-vehicle highway collision in Caledon, Ont.

One dead, multiple injured in three-vehicle highway collision in Caledon, Ont.

CALEDON, Ont. — One person is dead following a three-vehicle highway crash in Caledon, Ont. Ontario Provincial Police say officers and emergency crews responded to a collision on Highway 10 just before midnight Friday.
Read more >