Health

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says it will pay for a drug that costs $700,000 a year for some sufferers of a rare disease.

TORONTO — Motorcyclists in Ontario are three times more likely to be injured in a collision than people in automobiles, 10 times more likely to suffer serious injuries and those injuries will cost more to treat, a new study suggests.

EDMONTON — A report says changes need to be made to help LGBTQ youth who are struggling in Alberta's child-welfare and justice systems.

Imagine taking a doctor into your confidence in a hospital emergency room, only to discover that someone else is recording the conversation on a smartphone.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Alberta Health Services is warning families with children who attend a Fort McMurray daycare, and staff who work there, that they may have been exposed to someone with tuberculosis.

NASHVILLE — Businessman Kyle Graves shot himself in the ankle so emergency room doctors would feed his opioid habit. Ex-trucker Jeff McCoy threatened to blow his brains out if his mother didn't hand over his fentanyl patches.

ATHOLVILLE, N.B. — New Brunswick says it has become the first province to fully secure its supply of recreational marijuana.

TORONTO — New guidelines set the minimum amount of activity that toddlers, preschoolers and even babies should get each day.

NASHVILLE — It's hard to say whether businessman Kyle Graves hit rock bottom when he shot himself in the ankle so emergency room doctors would feed his opioid habit or when he broke into a safe to steal his father's cancer pain medicine.

WASHINGTON — The White House says the true cost of the opioid drug epidemic in 2015 was $504 billion, or roughly half a trillion dollars.