Health

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — For years, Ambrealle Brown was forced to put her dreams of becoming a nurse on hold due to a life-threatening kidney disease that left her temporarily incapacitated.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify under a new directive issued Thursday.

CALGARY — More than 300 people in Alberta have fallen ill from measles since March and a group of doctors are warning the virus could grow exponentially in the coming weeks. "We are kind of at the horses-are-out-of-the-barn stage," said Dr.

TORONTO — A senior medical advisor with the Public Health Agency of Canada says the country could lose its measles elimination status if the highly contagious disease continues to spread into the fall. Dr.

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's infant mortality rate dropped last year after two years of hovering at a late-pandemic plateau.

MONTREAL — Despite a downward trend, Quebec still reported nearly record-high population growth last year due to immigration, even as the province's fertility rate reached its lowest level on record.

REGINA — Saskatchewan is now part of an unprecedented measles outbreak where cases have been rising rapidly, the province's chief medical health officer said Thursday. Dr.

Eleven states in the U.S. have active measles outbreaks as of Tuesday, when North Dakota joined the list after confirming its first cases since 2011. The U.S.

LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — The United States will cut $50 million worth of medical aid a year to Zambia because of “systematic” theft of the aid in past years and the government's failure to crack down on that, the U.S. ambassador said Thursday. The U.S.