Health

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A group of Texas families and doctors have filed a lawsuit in state court seeking to block the state's new law that bans gender-affirming care for minors, arguing it violates parental rights and discriminates against transgender

LONDON (AP) — The British government offered millions of public sector workers pay raises Thursday in a bid to end an array of strikes that have crippled trains, health care and other services for more than a year amid the biggest cost-of-living cris

Six brands of caffeinated drinks have been recalled in Canada, including a popular energy beverage being promoted by social media influencers.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Russian lawmakers on Thursday approved a toughened version of a bill that outlaws gender transitioning procedures, with added clauses that annul marriages in which one person has “changed gender” and bar transgender people fro

OTTAWA — In medicine, before a doctor treats a patient's illness, they first try to get a sense of the person's health. They collect information on the symptoms, run tests and blood work and gather whatever details they can.

TORONTO (AP) — Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians and at least five class-action lawsuits say the practice has not ended in Canada.

TORONTO (AP) — Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians and at least five class-action lawsuits allege the practice has not ended in Canada.

Ottawa's city council has greenlit a plan to create a mental health emergency dispatch line and a mobile crisis response team that would be in operation 24-7.

REGINA — A hospital in Saskatchewan's capital is temporarily closing one of its medical intensive care unit beds following months of staff shortages.

MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — The deaths of three patients within a week at a northern Indiana addiction treatment center are being investigated by local authorities, who are also looking into a suspected overdose involving a fourth patient. The St.