Health

TRENT HILLS, Ont. — An eastern Ontario mayor who aggressively campaigned for access to a pancreatic cancer treatment has died. The municipality of Trent Hills says in a statement that Hector Macmillan died on Tuesday at his home in Campbellford.

NEW YORK — Pharmacy-benefits manager Express Scripts Holding Co. will buy privately-held eviCore healthcare for $3.6 billion, bolstering its medical benefit management services. St.

NEW YORK — Pfizer may be done selling ChapStick, Advil, Robitussin and other brands that people can buy without a prescription. The pharmaceutical giant is weighing options for its consumer healthcare business.

Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will meet Thursday to consider whether to recommend approval of a gene therapy aimed at improving vision for some people with hereditary blindness. It would be the first gene therapy in the U.S.

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia hospital has rewritten waiting time rules and end-of-life protocols in response to the disturbing story of how a 68-year-old man dying from pancreatic cancer languished for six hours in an ER hallway.

Denise Lane searches her mind for fond memories of her son, but she has trouble retrieving them. No Christmases, no birthdays. It's hard to remember the good times.

Montreal's new French-language superhospital opened its emergency room at exactly 5 a.m. Sunday, at the very same moment that a 109-year-old hospital down the street was closing its doors for good. At 7 a.m.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Training programs around the country are trying to teach bystanders to stop sexual assault, and now is when they have to be especially alert.

OTTAWA — Parliament Hill was a swirl of fresh faces and a storm of news this week in the rush to get things done and square events away before the Thanksgiving break.

REGINA — Saskatchewan bishops and the Catholic school division have apologized and sent out a new letter to parents about the human papillomavirus vaccine.