Health

VICTORIA — British Columbia is providing a new payment to more than 110,000 people who receive disability assistance to help with their transportation needs.

TORONTO — Ontario's Human Milk Bank is calling for donations of breast milk from lactating women to help save sick and pre-term babies' lives.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's premier says his province is ideally suited for a pilot project on how to manage an aging population.

TORONTO — Within days of opening her new bar in west-end Toronto, Carmen Elle had equipped the venue with what she considers a key piece of equipment: a naloxone kit.

Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders is scheduled to undergo a kidney transplant operation on Monday, and the donor organ is being provided by his wife Stacey.

VANCOUVER — People on the front lines of British Columbia's opioid overdose crisis are applauding the government's announcement of more funding in an attempt to stem the death toll.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia Premier John Horgan says his government is taking action to combat the overdose death crisis, with funding from a $322-million investment announced in a recent budget update. Here are five steps: — B.C.

TORONTO — Medical professionals and body artists say the practice of tattooing the eyeball, which recently left an Ottawa woman facing the prospect of vision loss, is on the rise despite its many risks.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia pharmacies are now stocking free naloxone kits as part of the province's strategy to battle opioid overdoses that currently claim nearly 60 lives a year in the province. The chief medical officer of health, Dr.

OTTAWA — A salmonella outbreak that left 13 people ill in four provinces this summer has been linked to frozen raw breaded chicken products.