Health

VANCOUVER — A shoe box-sized machine is powering a one-year pilot project with the hope of cutting British Columbia's soaring overdose death rate.

VICTORIA — The unprecedented overdose death toll in British Columbia means it may be time to have a "courageous conversation" about decriminalizing the drugs that are killing so many people, says the province's minister of addictions.

TORONTO — It's hard to believe that a single small study could cause such a hullabaloo, but that's been the case with a research paper that looked at the effectiveness of using stents to open up clogged coronary arteries in patients with chest pain k

MONTREAL — If the price of legal marijuana must be competitive with the black market in order to discourage underground sales, then the same logic should apply to nicotine, the head of Imperial Tobacco Canada said Thursday.

RED DEER, Alta. — A city hall in central Alberta is slated to be back in business Friday after it was shut down due a package of drugs left behind. Mounties say someone found the package at Red Deer City Hall on Thursday.

TRENTON, N.J. — In a story Nov. 8 about a new drug approval, The Associated Press misspelled the drug's name. It is Prevymis, not Prevymix. A corrected version of the story is below: FDA OKs drug to block infection after marrow transplant U.S.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's health minister is sidestepping questions about whether he thinks it's acceptable that a Cape Breton woman who is halfway through her pregnancy still doesn't have a family doctor. Kirsten DeJong, who moved to Boularderie, N.S.

CALGARY — There's no such thing as an easy coffee run or a quick bathroom break for the dozen or so staffers at a new laboratory opening in Calgary on Thursday.

TORONTO — Two Ontario court cases involving people deemed brain dead are raising questions about whether what constitutes death should be clearly spelled out under Canadian laws.

INDIANAPOLIS — Alison Wrenne was making waffles for her two young children one morning when abdominal pain forced her to the floor. A neighbour who is a physician assistant urged her to go to the emergency room.