Health

For the first time, U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved the sale of chicken made from animal cells, allowing two California companies to offer “lab-grown” meat to the nation's restaurant tables and eventually, supermarket shelves.

PHOENIX (AP) — A widespread Arizona Medicaid scam that has left an unknown number of Native Americans homeless on the streets of metro Phoenix is being declared a public health state of emergency by the Navajo Nation as fraudulent sober living homes

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon lawmakers on Wednesday officially passed amended versions of the two bills — relating to guns, and abortion and gender-affirming care, respectively — that were at the center of a six-week Republican walkout.

Nearly five per cent of cannabis users are at risk of developing an addiction to the drug, a new study from Statistics Canada says.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The water flowing from faucets in Mississippi's capital is safe to drink, city officials said in federal court Wednesday. U.S.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Doctors in New York who prescribe abortion pills to patients in states where the procedure is illegal would be provided with legal protection under a bill approved by state lawmakers. The measure, which will be considered by Gov.

NEW YORK (AP) — A gynecologist convicted of federal sex abuse charges should face at least 25 years in prison for assaulting a “staggering number of victims” during a quarter-century career as a serial sexual predator disguised as a doctor at prestig

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania state senators began advancing legislation Wednesday that would liberalize the state's 5-year-old medical marijuana program by expanding the scope of who can buy it and allowing it to be sold in edible form.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia mayor says a patient died last week in his Annapolis Valley town after going into cardiac arrest at a hospital where no doctor was present. Mayor Sylvester Atkinson of Middleton, N.S.