Health

SEATTLE (AP) — An Idaho woman is suing her one-time fertility doctor, saying he secretly used his own sperm to inseminate her 34 years ago — the latest in a string of such cases brought as at-home DNA sampling enables people to learn more about their

The removal of contaminated soil from the eastern Ohio site of February's fiery Norfolk Southern derailment is expected to be completed sometime this weekend, although the larger cleanup effort isn't over. U.S.

WINNIPEG — Siblings of a man found not criminally responsible for killing their parents are suing Manitoba health authorities, claiming staff did not provide adequate psychiatric care, which resulted in the stabbings.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — As overdose deaths continue at a record pace, U.S.

OTTAWA — Canadian dentists are demanding details on Ottawa's soon-to-be announced federal dental insurance plan and how the federal government plans to preserve existing provincial and private coverage.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning health care providers and the public about injuries and at least one death in premature infants who were given probiotic products in the hospital.

MONCTON, N.B. — A $17-million class-action settlement has been approved after plaintiffs alleged decades of mistreatment of psychiatric patients at the Restigouche Hospital Centre in northern New Brunswick.

TOKYO (AP) — Two workers at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant were hospitalized after accidentally getting sprayed with liquid laced with radioactive materials, officials said Thursday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of suicides among U.S.

"I always thought 'just stop' — but it's not that easy."