Health

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Trump administration could gut research on the effectiveness of child welfare programs, with plans to terminate dozens of university grants studying improvements to Head Start and child care policy, according to a spreadshe

DELFT, Netherlands (AP) — Ben Buitenhuis doesn't get hungry. He never really has since the end of World War II, when he had to use his wits to scavenge for milk powder or wait in line for a meager ration of a meal made from flower bulbs.

VANCOUVER — The suspect in the street festival attack that killed 11 people in Vancouver will appear in provincial court in the city on Friday, just hours before a memorial mass to pray for the victims of the tragedy.

EDMONTON — A year-and-a-half after announcing it would massively reorganize the health-care system, Alberta's government says it's now in the final stages of the still-controversial revamp.

The number of overdose deaths in Kentucky last year dropped by 30.

CALGARY — The prosecution says a Calgary man who fatally attacked and stabbed a woman three years ago says the accused knew exactly what he was doing.

TORONTO — Ontario is reporting its highest weekly increase in measles cases since its outbreak began with 223 new infections in the province over the past week, as opposition parties and some doctors call on the province to do more to address the pub

LAVAL — The mother of a four-year-old boy killed when a city bus plowed into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023 told a courtroom on Thursday that the accused has left her family broken and angry.

President Donald Trump’s administration released a lengthy review of transgender health care on Thursday that advocates for a greater reliance on behavioral therapy rather than broad gender-affirming medical care for youths with gender dysphoria.

With one-fifth of states seeing active measles outbreaks , the U.S. is nearing 900 cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC's confirmed measles case count is 884, triple the amount seen in all of 2024.