Health

FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government is revising its budget deficit upward by almost 22 per cent. In an update, the province says its deficit is now projected to be $668.

TORONTO — Health Canada has approved Ozempic to reduce the risk of further kidney decline among patients with Type 2 diabetes. Between 30 and 50 per cent of people with Type 2 diabetes develop some form of chronic kidney disease.

TORONTO — Moving from Ontario to New Brunswick didn’t just mean Jade Medeiros had to navigate a new province with two babies, she also had to figure out a new vaccination program.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov.

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a law strengthening the rights of pregnant workers, vacating a judge's earlier order that had stripped those protections from Texas state employees.

LUNENBURG — Nova Scotia's government says it has opened the first phase of a housing project dedicated to help health-care workers find homes in the South Shore. Susan Corkum-Greek, member of legislature for Lunenburg, N.S.

The Texas measles outbreak that sickened 762 people since late January is over, state health officials said Monday.

TORONTO — Katie Hulan's family doctor thought she might have asthma. Her cough, which had started about a month and a half earlier, was getting progressively worse. So he gave her some puffers to try, but they didn't work.

Federal incentives for home energy improvements are running out at the end of the year, so it's decision time for anyone who has been thinking about a heat pump.

WASHINGTON (AP) — When the Food and Drug Administration needs outside guidance, it normally turns to a trusted source: a large roster of expert advisers who are carefully vetted for their independence, credentials and judgment.