Health

A promising schizophrenia drug showed mixed results. What does that mean for patients?

Some people who took a new schizophrenia drug for a year improved with only a few side effects, but many dropped out of the research, the company announced Thursday.

Oct 31, 2024 2:13 PM Read more >

Working Well: Seeking the elusive work-life balance, one step at a time

NEW YORK (AP) — The moment I knew I had to get serious about work-life balance came without warning. I was writing a high-profile news story during the pandemic when my heart began pounding like a jackhammer.

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Working Well: Seeking the elusive work-life balance, one step at a time

NEW YORK (AP) — The moment I knew I had to get serious about work-life balance came without warning. I was writing a high-profile news story during the pandemic when my heart began pounding like a jackhammer.

Oct 31, 2024 12:06 PM Read more >

Ontario lacks a health-care plan for alcohol harms as sales expand: health coalition

TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford's government has no strategy to mitigate problems that could result from the province's newly liberalized alcohol sales rules, a health coalition said Thursday, warning that more death, cancer diagnoses and emergency depar

Oct 31, 2024 11:52 AM Read more >

N.S. election: NDP promises to end fixed-term leases, impose rent-control system

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s temporary rent cap and a loophole that allows landlords to avoid it were the targets of the provincial New Democrats on Thursday, as they promised to protect tenants from evictions and excessive hikes if elected Nov. 26.

Oct 31, 2024 11:48 AM Read more >

'Obamacare' enrollment opens, as Republicans threaten the health insurance program used by millions

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans can start signing up Friday for health care coverage offered through the Affordable Care Act marketplace for 2025, days before a presidential election that could threaten eligibility and raise costs for millions of those i

Oct 31, 2024 11:43 AM Read more >

UK apologizes for child's death in case that made air pollution in low-income areas a national issue

LONDON (AP) — The British government has apologized for the death of a 9-year-old girl who is believed to be the first person in the U.K.

Oct 31, 2024 10:43 AM Read more >

Abortion-rights groups outspend opponents by more than 6 to 1 in ballot measure campaigns

The groups promoting ballot measures to add amendments to the constitutions in nine states that would enshrine a right to abortion have raised more than $160 million.

Oct 31, 2024 10:40 AM Read more >

Alzheimer Society supports advance MAID requests, but also good dementia care

TORONTO — Andrée McGrath is living "a really wonderful life." She and her husband of 49 years, Rick McGrath, live in Kanata, Ont., where they golf, take walks and laugh loudly and often.

Oct 31, 2024 9:42 AM Read more >

Dental-care program hits 1 million patients in first six months, coverage expands

OTTAWA — A million Canadians have received care under the federal dental-care plan six months after the program began, Health Minister Mark Holland said Thursday. Starting on Friday, the program will also cover more complex procedures.

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