Health

VICTORIA — More people died from illicit drug overdoses in British Columbia in the first eight months of this year than all of 2016.

TORONTO — A clinical team will investigate whether the care of any patient at Ontario's largest hospital network was impacted by errors reported in its electronic medical records, says a spokeswoman.

STOCKHOLM — Swedish prosecutors have abandoned an investigation against a disgraced Italian stem cell scientist suspected of involuntary manslaughter in connection with three patients who died after windpipe transplants.

SASKATOON — The Saskatoon Health Region has issued a statement on a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging Indigenous women were coerced into undergoing tubal ligations. SHR officials say they respect the rights of the women to pursue legal action.

VANCOUVER — Severely ill Canadians who don't qualify for medical help in dying will suffer even longer while they wait to find out whether the federal government has violated their right to a medically assisted death after a court ruling in B.C.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's addictions minister has tasked health authorities to move quickly to scale up use of an injectable drug that could save the lives of chronic substance users who haven't responded to treatment with oral medication.

EDMONTON — After years of lobbying by health groups Alberta is finally moving to ban young people from using indoor tanning beds over growing fears about skin cancer.

WINNIPEG — Horrified patients and staff at a Winnipeg hospital watched as a man pulled what appeared to be a gun on another man.

TRENTON, N.J. — Merck has decided to abandon efforts to market a closely watched experimental cholesterol medicine after mediocre test results.

HALIFAX — Lindsey Hubley was diagnosed with flesh-eating disease four days after giving birth and is now a quadruple amputee, has undergone a total hysterectomy and has been forced to spend the first seven months of her son's life in hospital.