Health

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s opposition parties say they're skeptical of the province's shrinking family doctor wait-list as they hear from constituents who’ve been removed from the list only to wait months for access to primary care.

TORONTO — Ontario is introducing a new program to stabilize physician staffing in rural emergency departments and putting more money toward helping people in underserved communities get access to primary care.

EDMONTON — Health officials in Alberta are reporting 29 new cases of measles, bringing the province's total to 118 since early March.

COLWOOD — A British Columbia city on Vancouver Island that's hiring doctors as municipal employees is "very close" to hiring two more physicians, and its mayor believes it will eventually exceed its goal of hiring eight in total.

Walgreens has agreed to pay up to $350 million in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, which said that it illegally filling millions of prescriptions in the last decade for opioids and other controlled substances.

QUÉBEC — Quebec's Health Department has declared an end to the measles outbreak in the province. A spokeswoman said today the department determined the outbreak was over after no new cases were reported over the weekend.

Many Americans were forced to postpone cancer screenings — colonoscopies, mammograms and lung scans — for several months in 2020 as COVID-19 overwhelmed doctors and hospitals.

Bottles and bags, food wrappers and straws. Piping, packaging, toys and trays. Plastic is everywhere — and yet some people may be surprised at how much they actually wear.

BERLIN (AP) — Eighty years after the Holocaust , more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive but 70% of them will be gone within the next 10 years — meaning time is running out to hear the voices of the last generation who suffered through one

EDMONTON — A judge has granted Alberta's government its request to question the former head of the provincial health authority about confidential emails she is accused of keeping and sharing without permission, including to media.