Health

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government says construction on a long-promised centre for cancer research and treatment will get underway next year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In his confirmation hearings to lead the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya pledged his openness to views that might conflict with his own. “Dissent," he said, ”is the very essence of science.

TORONTO — Ontario's chief medical officer of health says six infants have been born with congenital measles since an outbreak began last fall, adding they were infected in the womb through mothers who were not vaccinated. Dr.

Dr. Jeff Eppler, an emergency room physician at Kelowna General Hospital, is getting ready for a hectic summer.

EDMONTON — Anita Hagh couldn't stop pressing the corner of her phone screen where the Facebook app used to be. It was about five years ago, and she had deleted the social media platform from her cellphone.

MONTREAL — Poor air quality fuelled by wildfires burning across the Prairies left a large swath of the country enveloped in a haze again on Saturday, but Environment Canada said the situation is expected to improve over the weekend.

A salmonella outbreak linked to a large egg recall has made dozens of people sick in seven states in the West and Midwest, federal health officials said Saturday. The August Egg Company recalled about 1.

WASHINGTON (AP) — David Perry recalls being young and gay in 1980s Washington D.C. and having “an absolute blast.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A convicted killer in Utah who developed dementia while on death row for 37 years is competent enough to be executed, a state judge ruled late Friday.

British Columbia has launched a six-week, $5-million campaign of targeted advertisements to recruit doctors and nurses in the United States, citing "chaos" under the Trump administration to lure them north.