Health

MONTREAL — There is no magic solution to homelessness, Montreal's public consultation office heard Monday as it began a series of hearings on how the city can more successfully integrate services for vulnerable people into neighbourhoods.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid , threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program.

Five years after COVID-19 first emerged, the United States is still grappling with the aftereffects of the pandemic that killed millions of people worldwide.

We’re taught from earliest childhood that doctors are trustworthy healers, so there’s a special sense of betrayal when they inflict pain.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda discharged on Tuesday the last eight patients who recovered from Ebola , health authorities reported, and there were no other positive cases in the outbreak declared last month.

When a sheriff’s deputy died at a police academy in Evansville, Indiana, two years ago, law enforcement leaders said he had collapsed during routine training.

VANCOUVER — LifeLabs in British Columbia says some of its more than 100 centres will be subject to rotating temporary closures starting Thursday as part of job action taken by its union workers. The B.C.

EDMONTON — A two-week-old boy who was bitten by a pet dog at a home west of Edmonton on the weekend has died in hospital, RCMP say.

TORONTO — Bev Gilbert was thinking about his heart as he and his wife dug their daughter's car out of its snow prison on a Toronto side street.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis’ respiratory infection is presenting a “complex clinical picture” that will require further hospitalization, the Vatican said Monday, as concerns grew about the increasingly frail health of the 88-year-old pontiff.