Health

QUÉBEC — Quebec's health minister has tabled a bill that would force new doctors trained in the province to spend the first five years of their careers working in Quebec's public health network.

TORONTO — Ontario's opioid strategy, even with its new abstinence-based model for treatment, is outdated and does not serve the current needs of the people, the auditor general found in her annual report released Tuesday.

A fourth case of fatal chronic wasting disease has been found in a white-tailed deer in British Columbia's Kootenay region.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt is following through on one of her top election campaign promises by giving nurses across the province retention bonuses by January.

PHOENIX (AP) — Reproductive rights advocates sued Arizona on Tuesday to undo a 15-week abortion ban that conflicts with a constitutional amendment recently approved by voters to expand access up to fetal viability.

HALIFAX — A member of the committee monitoring how governments and the RCMP are responding to the inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting is raising concerns from survivors of gender-based violence about a lack of action.

The U.S. government said Tuesday it has closed its investigation into an E. coli outbreak tied to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers after determining there is no longer a safety risk.

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — A flu-like disease that has killed dozens of people over two weeks is being investigated in southwestern Congo , local authorities said. The deaths were recorded between Nov. 10 and Nov.

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An unknown disease has killed at least 67 people over a two-week span in southwestern Congo, local authorities said. The deaths were recorded between Nov. 10 and Nov. 25 in the Panzi health zone of Kwango province.

For decades, water fluoridation has played a key role in improving the oral health of North Americans, experts say, but the practice is coming under scrutiny in some communities as opponents gain new prominence in the U.S.