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Mayors, police and businesses push Ontario for help on homelessness and opioid crises

Mayors, police and businesses push Ontario for help on homelessness and opioid crises

Mayors, police leaders and businesses in Ontario are calling on the province to provide more help in dealing with the growing homelessness and opioid crises gripping both big cities and small towns.
Public Health Ontario reports 529 monkeypox cases as of Monday, up from 478 last week

Public Health Ontario reports 529 monkeypox cases as of Monday, up from 478 last week

TORONTO 鈥 Public Health Ontario says there are now 529 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the province. The agency's latest report on the disease as of Monday reflects an increase in the case tally of 478 confirmed cases in Ontario as of last Wednesday.
Planned Parenthood to spend record $50M in midterm elections

Planned Parenthood to spend record $50M in midterm elections

WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 Planned Parenthood, the nation's leading reproductive health care provider and abortion rights advocacy organization, plans to spend a record $50 million ahead of November's midterm elections , pouring money into contests where acce

2 deaths in Florida linked to raw oysters from Louisiana

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) 鈥 A restaurant customer in Fort Lauderdale has died of a bacterial infection after eating raw oysters. A Pensacola man died the same way this month. Both cases involved oysters from Louisiana.
Global vets in Pakistan for surgery on Karachi zoo elephants

Global vets in Pakistan for surgery on Karachi zoo elephants

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) 鈥 Veterinarians from a global animal welfare organization are in Pakistan and on Wednesday began a series of surgeries on a pair of elephants at a zoo in the port city of Karachi.
Your Good Health: Does getting COVID reduce need for boosters?

Your Good Health: Does getting COVID reduce need for boosters?

Recent evidence has shown that people who have had three doses of the vaccine do not receive a large boost in immunity from getting COVID

Victims of UK tainted blood scandal to get government payout

LONDON (AP) 鈥 Thousands of people in Britain who contracted HIV or hepatitis from transfusions of tainted blood in the 1970s and 1980s will receive 100,000 pounds ($120,000) in compensation, the U.K. government said Wednesday.
Article on 'fat' Arab women sparks uproar over body-shaming

Article on 'fat' Arab women sparks uproar over body-shaming

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) 鈥 To Enas Taleb, the headline felt like a spiteful punch line. 鈥淲hy women are fatter than men in the Arab world,鈥 it read in bold, above a photograph of the Iraqi actress waving onstage at an arts festival.
sa国际传媒 drug death toll passes 10,000 since declaration of emergency in 2016: coroner

sa国际传媒 drug death toll passes 10,000 since declaration of emergency in 2016: coroner

VICTORIA 鈥 British Columbia has lost more than 10,000 lives to illicit drugs since the province declared a public health emergency in April 2016, chief coroner Lisa Lapointe says.
Over-the-counter hearing aids expected this fall in US

Over-the-counter hearing aids expected this fall in US

WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 Millions of Americans will be able to buy hearing aids without a prescription later this fall, under a long-awaited rule finalized Tuesday.