Health

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A House committee reviewing South Carolina's abortion law suggested Tuesday the state ban almost all abortions other than when the life of the mother is at risk.

YELLOWKNIFE — Health-care providers in the Northwest Territories are learning how to use rapid tests for syphilis in response to an outbreak of the sexually transmitted disease across the territory. The N.W.T.'s chief public health officer, Dr.

NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI and Justice Department recently disrupted the activities of a hacking group that was sponsored by the North Korean government and that targeted U.S.

CHARLOTTETOWN — COVID-19 has claimed the lives of three more people in Prince Edward Island during the past week. There have now been 49 COVID-19-related deaths in the province since the onset of the pandemic.

Ontario's fiscal watchdog is projecting a deficit that's $5.4 billion smaller than the most recent government projection because of lower-than-anticipated program spending.

FREDERICTON — Health officials in New Brunswick are reporting five more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. There have now been 438 COVID-19-related deaths in the province since the start of the pandemic.

MONTREAL — Quebec is reporting 35 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus and a 82-patient rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations.

LONDON (AP) — British has bought another 100,000 doses of vaccine to stop monkeypox as the number of cases across the country has risen to more than 2,130, the majority of them in London, officials said Tuesday.

Freddy Fernandez almost wasn’t here, on his couch in his Missouri home, his baby on his lap, gnawing on the pulse oximeter that he uses to check his oxygen levels after a months-long bout with COVID-19.