Health

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's health minister and its top doctor are urging people to get vaccinated before joining family and friends over the holidays. Dr.

Alberta's premier has reacted to criticism her province toned down this year's vaccination campaign, telling listeners to her call-in radio show that "most people can make their own judgements on their own level of risk.

HONOLULU (AP) — The state has announced the first recipients of a program aimed at helping medical professionals pay off student loans in exchange for a two-year commitment to provide care in Hawaii. Gov.

DORA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman with two uteri and two cervixes has given birth to two babies after carrying one of them in each uterus. Kelsey Hatcher of Dora, about 28 miles (45.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When Alexis Cholas lost his right arm as a volunteer combat medic near the front lines in eastern Ukraine , his civilian career as a surgeon was over.

The U.N. Security Council passed a new resolution that calls for speeding up humanitarian aid deliveries into Gaza, but without the original insistence on an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas.

OTTAWA — The Public Health Agency of Canada is reporting another death from a salmonella outbreak involving cantaloupes, bringing the total to seven.

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VANCOUVER — Health authorities in British Columbia are warning the public about higher levels of strep bacterial infections among children.

CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — Joyce Loaiza lives alone, but when she returns to her apartment at a Florida senior community, the retired office worker often has a chat with a friendly female voice that asks about her day.