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Nova Scotia offering 50 prizes worth $1,000 each for the best health-care ideas

Nova Scotia offering 50 prizes worth $1,000 each for the best health-care ideas

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is so keen to improve the province's ailing health-care sector that it is offering 50 prizes of $1,000 each to health workers who have ideas for improving the system.
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This procedure is banned in the US. Why is it a hot topic in fight over Ohio's abortion amendment?

This procedure is banned in the US. Why is it a hot topic in fight over Ohio's abortion amendment?

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — With Election Day closing in , anti-abortion groups seeking to build opposition to a reproductive rights measure in Ohio are messaging heavily around a term for an abortion procedure that was once used later in pregnancy but tha
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Dwindling fuel supplies for Gaza's hospital generators put premature babies in incubators at risk

Dwindling fuel supplies for Gaza's hospital generators put premature babies in incubators at risk

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A premature baby squirms inside a glass incubator in the neonatal ward of al-Aqsa Hospital in the central Gaza Strip. He cries out as intravenous lines are connected to his tiny body.
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'I have no fixed address': A look at encampments for homeless across Canada

'I have no fixed address': A look at encampments for homeless across Canada

Federal housing advocate Marie-Josée Houle has called the spread of homeless encampments in cities across Canada a human rights crisis. "People living in encampments face some of the most vulnerable circumstances of any member of Canadian society ...
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Norway's 86-year-old king tests positive for COVID-19 and has mild symptoms

Norway's 86-year-old king tests positive for COVID-19 and has mild symptoms

HELSINKI (AP) — Norway’s 86-year-old King Harald V, who has been in frail health in the past few years, has tested positive for the coronavirus and has mild symptoms, royal officials said on Sunday.
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Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the 'nightmare' of Gaza's hospitals

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The only thing worse than the screams of a patient undergoing surgery without enough anesthesia are the terror-stricken faces of those awaiting their turn, a 51-year-old orthopedic surgeon says.
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Cardiology clinic becomes first in Saskatchewan to opt out of public health care

Cardiology clinic becomes first in Saskatchewan to opt out of public health care

MOOSE JAW, Sask. — A cardiology clinic in Saskatchewan, the birthplace of medicare, has opted out of the publicly funded health-care system after it struggled to meet its costs under the province's fee structure. Dr.
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Premiers ask federal government for COVID-19 small business loan extension

Premiers ask federal government for COVID-19 small business loan extension

VICTORIA — Up to 250,000 small businesses across Canada face uncertain futures if the federal government continues with its repayment options for a COVID-19 loan program, says Dan Kelly, president of Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
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Georgia Medicaid program with work requirement has enrolled only 1,343 residents in 3 months

Georgia Medicaid program with work requirement has enrolled only 1,343 residents in 3 months

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's new health plan for low-income adults has enrolled only 1,343 people through the end of September about three months after launching, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
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Owner of California biolab that fueled bio-weapons rumors charged with mislabeling, lacking permits

Owner of California biolab that fueled bio-weapons rumors charged with mislabeling, lacking permits

FRESNO, Calif.
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