Health

FREDERICTON — The various sources of heat used by people living in tents carry a high risk of fire that can threaten lives, say homeless advocates in New Brunswick after a man died in an encampment in Saint John.

VANCOUVER — A third proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed over salmonella-tainted cantaloupes that have sickened people across Canada.

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's General Assembly began its 2024 regular session Monday and the top intrigue is whether Republicans, after longtime opposition, may agree to a further expansion of health care for poor adults under the state's Medicaid program

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More women on Monday joined a Tennessee lawsuit challenging the state's broad abortion ban that went into effect shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Assembly Republicans' highly restrictive plan to legalize medical marijuana in the state drew a lukewarm response from Senate Republicans and Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Monday.

KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A roadside bomb exploded Monday near a van carrying police assigned to protect workers in an anti-polio immunization campaign in restive northwestern Pakistan, killing at least six officers and wounding 10 others, officials said

LONDON (AP) — Roy Calne, a pioneer of organ transplantation who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation in 1968, has died aged 93.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of Congress were unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized since Monday, U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Monday due to complications following a minor elective medical procedure, his press secretary said, in the Defense Department’s first acknowledgement that Austin had been ad

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov.