Health

VICTORIA — One of 126 urban deer culled in southeastern British Columbia to determine if they were sick has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.

TROY, Mich. (AP) — A hospital employee shot a coworker in a parking garage Thursday in suburban Detroit, setting off a morning scramble at a major health care campus before the suspect was arrested miles away a few hours later.

The trend toward buying Canadian has created a silver lining for a food bank in Nanaimo, B.C., which has been flooded with hundreds of kilograms of American produce.

There's been another sharp increase in Ontario measles cases as the province begins to release weekly reports on the infectious disease. Public Health Ontario is reporting 470 measles cases since an outbreak began in October.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As the first director of South Carolina's newly organized health agency, Dr. Edward Simmer has a vision of reducing infant mortality, fighting childhood cancers and reducing drug overdoses.

NEW YORK (AP) — When Nikelle Inman started a new job coaching first-generation college students , she looked forward to meeting with them one-on-one to talk about how to surmount obstacles and find resources to succeed .

A common blood test may miss ovarian cancer in some Black and Native American patients, delaying their treatment, a new study finds. It's the latest example of medical tests that contribute to health care disparities .

An experimental treatment appears to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease in their 40s or 50s, according to new findings from ongoing research now caught up in Trump administration funding delays.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Amadou Ndiaye meticulously ran his fingers across bumps in a piece of paper, making sense of the world he can no longer see.

WINNIPEG — The two men vying for the leadership of Manitoba's Progressive Conservative party squared off Wednesday night in a debate that touched on crime, health care, taxes and other issues.