Health

VICTORIA — The British Columbia and federal governments have signed a four-year, $670-million pharmacare agreement, giving universal access to contraceptive and diabetes medications. The plan will support nearly 550,000 B.C.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is failing to adequately address the recent spike in gender-based violence, an advocacy group for reproductive health says.

TORONTO — Fullback-wingback Richie Laryea, injured early in last weekend's 4-2 loss in Orlando, will not make the trip with Toronto FC for Saturday's game at FC Cincinnati.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week, Africa’s top public health agency said Thursday, with a new cluster emerging from a 4-year-old child who recently died of the infectious disease.

OTTAWA — A crowd of survivors of so-called "Indian hospitals" gathered on Parliament Hill Thursday to hear the federal government say what they've been waiting years to hear: We believe you.

A yearslong legal battle over the right to an emergency abortion in Idaho has been abruptly upended now that President Donald Trump has moved to drop the high-profile case .

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rural cancer patients may miss out on cutting-edge treatments in Utah. Therapies for intellectual disorders could stall in Maryland.

NEW YORK (AP) — It took five years for Crystal Burke to put a name to the symptoms that haunted her. Heart palpitations. Insomnia so severe she slept only two to four hours a night. A newfound struggle to make decisions in her job as a nurse.

VANCOUVER — Anaheim Ducks goalie John Gibson left a game against the Vancouver Canucks Wednesday after getting hurt midway through the second period.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Wednesday moved to drop an Idaho emergency abortion case in one of its first moves on the issue since President Donald Trump began his second term.