Health

In 2022, federal officials rebuked a major coal plant next to the Ohio River for letting coal waste — in a pile so big it could fill the Dallas Cowboys' football stadium twice over — threaten groundwater with heavy metal pollution.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government has introduced promised legislation to allow for people to be forced into addiction treatment facilities.

ATLANTA (AP) — A key vaccine advisory committee met for the first time under new U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leading voice in the U.S. anti-vaccine movement .

Afghan children will die because of US funding cuts, an aid agency official said Tuesday.

EDMONTON — Alberta is seeking a new chief medical officer of health as the government says Dr. Mark Joffe's contract has expired. Health Minister Adriana LaGrange's office said in an email Tuesday that Joffe's contract expired a day prior.

The changes come after both the Canadian Medical Association and Doctors of BC advocated for sick note requirements to be eliminated last year.

Anne Kange, the minister of post-secondary education and future skills, called the decrease from the federal government "drastic."

REGINA — Saskatchewan's health minister has rejected accusations from a nurses union and the Opposition NDP that some babies from Regina's neonatal intensive care unit were sent to North Dakota for care.

TORONTO — A new facility designed to house and support refugees and asylum seekers in Toronto is set to open next month with a focus on addressing mental health issues.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.