Your summer cold could be Covid-19, as cases are surging right across the country. Doctors say the summer wave is also happening when individual immunity is likely lower, given many people are more than six months out from their last vaccination. Katherine Ward has this story and more in Health Matters for Aug 6, 2024.
In an effort to connect Ontarians to care closer to home -- the province is seeking to expand the role of pharmacists once again but doctors are taking issue with the proposed changes -- suggesting pharmacists aren't trained to do the work. Caryn Lieberman explains.
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Cash-strapped former Donald Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani’s defamation lawsuit against President Joe Biden has been dismissed after the judge handling the case determined that the former New York City mayor “utterly failed” to carry his burden.Last October, Giuliani sued Biden for saying during a 2020 presidential debate that Giuliani was a “Russian pawn.”Biden’s lawyers contended that the complaint was “utterly devoid of well-pled factual allegations,” and after Giuliani failed to respond to thei
The 6-month-old child is "permanently disfigured" from the injuries, according to authorities
LOYALIST TOWNSHIP, ONTARIO, CANADA — The plant was expected to produce batteries for a million electric vehicles a year. Once up and running, it was supposed to create hundreds of permanent jobs in a small southeastern Ontario municipality.
A woman who was born and raised as a boy — living as a man until the age of 43 — discovered she is actually intersex and has both male and female chromosomes. Juleigh Mayfield, 49, from Orlando, Florida, says her life has been shaped by a challenging journey with intersex conditions and health complications. The actress and podcast host says she "presented" as a male at birth, adding: "Even though some of my characteristics were quite minute in size." But it was only when she was playing football in high school and required a physical examination that a doctor told Juleigh — at the time, Bradford — she had characteristics of both genders. "My parents and myself and my family were kind of at ends with what was going on," she explains.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have blocked for a second time this year legislation to establish a nationwide right to in vitro fertilization, arguing that the vote is an election-year stunt after Democrats forced a vote on the issue.
If you're getting ready to retire, or even starting to research the process for the distant future, odds are you've heard a lot of advice. Some of it likely better than others. And hey, it worked for...
The Selling Sunset star took to Instagram on Sunday to share that she recently learned both breast implants had ruptured after undergoing a full body scan as part of a health screening. Accordingly, Chrishell sought the advice of plastic surgeon Josef Hadeed and decided to get her "vintage" breast implants replaced with new ones. "Earlier this year, I had a full body scan and learned both of my breast implants were ruptured. My first thought was fear, thinking about having to undergo surgery and if the rupture would lead to any complications.”
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Taliban have suspended polio vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan, the U.N. said Monday. It’s a devastating setback for polio eradication, since the virus is one of the world’s most infectious and any unvaccinated groups of children where the virus is spreading could undo years of progress.
VGH Cardiologist Dr. David Wood explains what heart valve disease is and how to know if you're at risk.
TORONTO — Ontario is proposing to further expand pharmacists' scope of practice by adding to the list of minor ailments they can assess, allowing them to administer more vaccines and order some lab tests.
"I’d feel sorrow and grief but never regret."
The Biden administration will seek up to 6 million barrels of oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a source familiar with issue said on Tuesday, a purchase that if completed will match its largest yet in the replenishment of the stash after a historic sale in 2022. The administration will announce the solicitation as soon as Wednesday to buy oil for delivery to the Bayou Choctaw site in Louisiana, the source said, one of four heavily guarded SPR locations along the coasts of that state and Texas. The U.S. will buy the oil from energy companies for delivery in the first few months of 2025, the source said.
This kind of travel says more about what's happening in the United States than anything else. Here's what to know before you try it.
Lucy Fallon's 'Coronation Street' character Bethany Platt will end up fighting for her life in a Turkish hospital after a cosmetic procedure goes badly wrong in a new storyline.
“Every legal scholar” certainly do not support abandoning abortion rights in the constitution. Neither do a majority of Americans. Trump is wrong.
An ounce of financial prevention could be worth a pound of cure.
A decade of patient follow-up finds a combo of two immunotherapy drugs can greatly extend survival for people with advanced melanomas.
A BBC investigation finds garment workers who explain why they accepted wages as low as £3 an hour.
