Health

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TORONTO — The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is relaxing its policy against doctors treating themselves, family members and others close to them amid the province's primary care crisis.

HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. (AP) — Chemical maker DuPont has agreed to a $27 million settlement to resolve a nearly decade-long lawsuit over the contamination of an upstate New York village's water supply.

TORONTO — Tsubasa Endoh comes full circle Saturday when he retires as a Toronto FC player. After being diagnosed with acute undifferentiated leukemia in December 2021, the 31-year-old winger from Japan had a dream.

A new federal estimate shows a rise in prediabetes among American adolescents, a finding that is spurring concerns about the health of U.S.

APEX, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s first standalone children’s hospital will be built in a bedroom community near the state capital, the project’s health systems announced Thursday, creating a campus estimated to bring 8,000 jobs to the area.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will restrict immigrants in the country illegally from enrolling in Head Start , a federally funded preschool program, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday.

LONDON (AP) — Years of American-led investment into AIDS programs has reduced the number of people killed by the disease to the lowest levels seen in more than three decades and provided life-saving medicines for some of the world’s most vulnerable.

BOBO-DIOULASSO, Burkina Faso (AP) — Isaka Diallo was playing with friends when a stone struck his left eye. For two weeks, his parents searched hospitals in western Burkina Faso for an eye doctor. The village clinic only prescribed painkillers.

VICTORIA — Ten people are hospitalized with measles in British Columbia, with one active, contagious case as of July 8, the province's health ministry said.