Health

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Nilma Teles de Freitas, an 80-year-old retired teacher in Brazil who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease more than a decade ago, says she used to fall over all the time.

LONDON (AP) — Eight healthy babies were born in Britain with the help of an experimental technique that uses DNA from three people to help mothers avoid passing devastating rare diseases to their children, researchers reported Wednesday.

Gabriel House had seen better days, but for residents and their families, it was the center of a caring community. The 100-unit assisted-living facility that burned Sunday night , killing nine people , opened in 1999 in Fall River, Massachusetts.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades, proponents of psychedelic drugs have come to Washington with a provocative message: Illegal, mind-altering substances like LSD and ecstasy should be approved for Americans grappling with depression , trauma and other ha

Twenty-one children are in the custody of a California child-welfare agency while authorities investigate a Los Angeles-area couple and whether they misled surrogate mothers around the country.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two university hospitals are pioneering new ways to expand lifesaving heart transplants for adults and babies — advances that could help recover would-be heart donations that too often go unused.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's health minister says the province has received almost 780 job applications from qualified American health professionals as part of its recruitment campaign.

FREDERICTON — Public health officials in New Brunswick said Wednesday the number of confirmed measles cases in the province's south-central region has risen to five.

BRANDON — The Manitoba government announced Wednesday an increase in doctor training in the western part of the province — the latest in a series of spending announcements in an area where a byelection is looming.

The program known as PEPFAR is one of the most effective and popular U.S. foreign aid projects in history, and the government says it has saved the lives of over 25 million people around the world with HIV.