Health

NEW YORK (AP) — As a citizen of both France and America, Margaux Lantelme has noticed a difference in how store cashiers work in the two countries: in France, they do their jobs sitting down. In the U.S.

A panel of experts that advises the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy will not meet as previously scheduled next week. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) was slated to meet in Atlanta from Feb.

Abortion rights advocates feared the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opened the door to state abortion bans would also lead to tracking women and charging women who get abortions with murder.

TORONTO — When Liisa Nisula left her home in east Toronto for a medical appointment, the snow-covered sidewalks were so impassable for her walker that she was forced to go out into the street.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah may soon loosen its B.Y.O.B. rules, but not in the way some might hope. The acronym has taken on a new meaning in the state Legislature: “Bring Your Own Blood.

New York on Thursday sued some of the country’s biggest distributors of electronic cigarettes , accusing the companies of violating state laws that prohibit the sale of vaping flavors and designs that appeal to children.

Deemed surplus to requirements by Toronto FC after last season, Brandon Servania will be waiting when TFC opens the Major League Soccer regular season Saturday at D.C. United. The 25-year-old midfielder, who signed with D.C. on Feb.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Florence Makumene held a plastic container of HIV medication and wondered if it would be her last as fears swelled of a return to a time decades ago when millions across sub-Saharan Africa died of AIDS.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith removed her government's deputy minister of health Wednesday but bucked calls for a public inquiry into allegations of government interference in lucrative medical contracts.

VICTORIA — British Columbia Health Minister Josie Osborne has announced a major revamp of its safer-supply anti-addiction program, converting it to a "witnessed-only" model in which users are watched as they consume opioids they have been prescribed.