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PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia woman who calls herself the "Black Madam" was ordered Wednesday to stand trial on allegations she administered illegal buttock-injections, procedures that authorities say caused serious medical problems in at least one case.
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WASHINGTON - Is it really more expensive to eat healthy?
A new Agriculture Department study counters a common perception that junk food is cheaper than a nutritionally balanced meal.
It all depends on how prices are measured.
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CHESTERMERE, Alta. - Amateur hockey players in southern Alberta were nearing the end Wednesday of an 11-day marathon game to make it into the Guinness World Record book.
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WASHINGTON - Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer's disease — by testing possible therapies in people who don't yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed.
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CHICAGO - An antibiotic widely used for bronchitis and other common infections seems to increase chances for sudden deadly heart problems, a rare but surprising risk found in a 14-year study.
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MILWAUKEE - One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer.
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TORONTO - A former director of Ornge in charge of compensation is defending the pay packages of top executives at Ontario's troubled air ambulance service.
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TORONTO - New questions are being raised about whether well-connected Liberals lobbied the Ontario government on behalf of Ornge, the provincial air ambulance service that's currently under a criminal probe.
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TORONTO - New questions are being raised about whether well-connected Liberals lobbied the Ontario government on behalf of Ornge, the provincial air ambulance service that's currently under a criminal probe.
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TORONTO - A former executive at Ontario's troubled air ambulance service says Premier Dalton McGuinty's ex-chief of staff contacted the government on behalf of Ornge.
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VICTORIA - The Canadian Diabetes Association is calling on the British Columbia government to extend coverage of its insulin pump program to adults with type 1 diabetes.
Currently, B.C. only pays for the pumps for children.
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HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government will place more clinicians in schools and assess children as young as 18 months old as part of a broad mental health strategy aimed at intervening early and reducing wait times for care.
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TORONTO - Ontario needs specialized nursing homes for aging residents with behavioural problems if it hopes to curb abuse in long-term care facilities, an industry group said Wednesday.
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Coffee seems to be good for you. Or at least it's not bad, say researchers who led the largest-ever study of coffee and health.
They found that coffee drinkers seemed a little more likely to live longer than folks who drink no coffee at all.
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REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is giving health care a booster shot with a plan to recruit more foreign-trained doctors.
The province is removing a barrier that limited international medical graduates from practising in Saskatchewan.
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Researchers studying the brains of soldiers exposed to blast injuries have found evidence of a degenerative disease also detected in athletes who have suffered repeated blows to the head, raising a worrisome prospect for thousands of combat veterans.
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WASHINGTON - A small study raises more concern about the long-term consequences of brain injuries suffered by thousands of soldiers — suggesting they may be at risk of developing the same degenerative brain disease as some retired football players.
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GENEVA - A quarter of those 25 or older now have high blood pressure worldwide, and almost one in 10 has worrying levels of glucose in their blood.
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OTTAWA - The UN's right-to-food envoy is raising the alarm about hunger and poor diets in Canada, but the federal government says he is wasting his breath.
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ATLANTA - For the first time in 20 years, U.S. health officials have lowered the threshold for lead poisoning in young children.
The new standard announced Wednesday means that hundreds of thousands more youngsters could be diagnosed with high levels of lead.
