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WASHINGTON (AP) — As measles outbreaks popped up across the U.S. this winter, pediatricians waited for the nation's public health agency to send a routine, but important, letter that outlines how they could help stop the spread of the illness.

European regulators have finally approved the Alzheimer’s treatment Leqembi after an advisory committee initially rejected the drug last summer and then reconsidered it .

LONDON (AP) — You can have your cake and eat it too — just do it slowly . Experts tend to focus on the kinds of foods you can eat to improve your health. But the speed at which you devour your dinner matters just as much.

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."