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Sex education classes often don't include LGBTQ+ students. New restrictions could make it worse
PHOENIX (AP) — In fifth grade, Stella Gage's class watched a video about puberty. In ninth grade, a few sessions of her health class were dedicated to the risks of sexual behaviors. That was the extent of her sex education in school.
Oct 6, 2023 9:05 PM
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Federal judge in Oklahoma clears the way for a ban on medical care for transgender young people
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge in Tulsa declined to stop a new law from taking effect that makes it a felony crime for health care workers in Oklahoma to provide gender-affirming medical care to young transgender people. U.S.
Oct 6, 2023 4:26 PM
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Arkansas jail inmates settle lawsuit with doctor who prescribed them ivermectin for COVID-19
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Five former inmates at an Arkansas county jail have settled their lawsuit against a doctor who they said gave them the antiparasitic drug ivermectin to fight COVID-19 without their consent.
Oct 6, 2023 2:57 PM
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Emergency resolution on pharmacare expected at NDP convention
OTTAWA — A group of grassroots NDP activists is planning to push for pharmacare to be a make-or-break element of the federal party's supply-and-confidence deal with the Liberals at a policy convention next week.
Oct 6, 2023 2:49 PM
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Disability advocates warn eligibility for federal dental-care plan may be cumbersome
OTTAWA — The federal government's new dental insurance plan has yet to be introduced, but advocates are warning the eligibility criteria for people with disabilities could be cumbersome and may not capture everyone who should have access to the progr
Oct 6, 2023 2:41 PM
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It's the final day of a massive health care strike over pay and staff shortages. No deal is in sight
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A massive health care strike over wages and staffing shortages entered its final day on Friday without a deal between industry giant Kaiser Permanente and the unions representing the 75,000 workers who picketed this week .
Oct 6, 2023 2:29 PM
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Alberta auditor general to examine failed community lab testing privatization program
EDMONTON — Alberta’s auditor general says he will investigate what went wrong with the United Conservative Party government’s abandoned plan to privatize community lab testing provincewide.
Oct 6, 2023 2:09 PM
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Muskoka hospital says patient volumes surge to 150 per cent capacity
TORONTO — Patient volumes at a pair of hospitals in central Ontario have surged to as high as 150 per cent of its capacity, the health-care network is warning.
Oct 6, 2023 1:43 PM
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4 members of a Florida family are sentenced for selling a fake COVID-19 cure through online church
MIAMI (AP) — A Florida man and his three adult sons were sentenced Friday for selling a toxic industrial bleach as a fake COVID-19 cure through their online church.
Oct 6, 2023 12:51 PM
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Georgia will be first state with medical marijuana in pharmacies
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia soon will become the first state in the nation to offer medical marijuana products at independent pharmacies, state officials said.
Oct 6, 2023 12:18 PM
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