Health

During a hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1995, Don Barger climbed Chilhowee Mountain hoping to gaze across the valley below. All he saw was a wall of gray haze.

TORONTO — Ontario is looking for up to 80 new or expanded primary care teams to serve 300,000 patients, as it plans to build a system that automatically attaches people to a family doctor or nurse practitioner team based on their postal code.

EDMONTON — Connor McDavid couldn’t have come back to the Edmonton Oilers at a more opportune time — or in a much more dramatic fashion.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama teen who narrowly survived a fierce shark attack last year said she hopes a proposed alert system before state lawmakers can help keep others safe in the water.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date – a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages.

REGINA — The Saskatchewan government is looking south of the border to cure its ailing doctor woes with a program to recruit American physicians to the Prairie province.

Indiana health officials announced a measles outbreak Wednesday, with six cases that have no known links to the outbreaks in several other states . The U.S. has more than double the number of measles cases it saw in all of 2024.

ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE — Goaltender Kristen Campbell will start for Canada in its women's world hockey championship opener Thursday against Finland.

Max Pacioretty had just torn his right Achilles tendon for the second time in less than a year.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian health authorities are struggling to contain a rapidly spreading meningitis outbreak that has so far killed 151 people across the west African nation, mostly in remote parts of the northern region with children affected