Health

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.

FREDERICTON — A new study suggests having daily exposure to trees and other greenery can extend your life. Dan Crouse of the University of New Brunswick, along with other researchers across Canada and the United States, studied 1.

LINCOLNVILLE, Maine — The drummer for the band Phish is trying to raise lead poisoning awareness after an alarming experience with his young son.

HALIFAX — Experts are gathering Wednesday for discussions that include a little-known after-effect of the disastrous Halifax Explosion — it sparked a burst of health reforms that saved many hundreds of lives.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration's new birth control rule is raising questions among some doctors and researchers, who say it overlooks known benefits of contraception while selectively citing data that raise doubts about effectiveness and safet

SASKATOON — A proposed class action lawsuit against Canada’s attorney general, the Saskatchewan government, the province’s health regions and doctors who allegedly coerced Indigenous women to undergo sterilization has been filed in Saskatoon’s Court

SEATTLE — Neurologists from the University of Washington say a champion bull rider from British Columbia who died by suicide had a chronic brain condition.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The family of a British Columbia university executive who died suddenly last month says his death was caused by an accidental overdose.