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Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia forms partnership with Google Cloud to improve digital health care

The Nova Scotia government is spending $42 million over five years to help improve access to health information through Google…

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Canada

Federal health transfers outpace provincial spending despite premiers’ criticisms, analysis shows

Despite castigation from provincial premiers over lagging federal contributions to health spending, an analysis of 20 years of health funding…

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Health

Modern parenting is so stressful that the U.S issued a health advisory. Parents say it’s overdue

Parenting these days can often feel like treading water, begging for someone to throw you a rope. But instead of pulling…

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Canada

Is another pipe failure looming? A health check of Canada’s water mains

About one in every five kilometres of large water mains in Canada is in poor or entirely unknown condition, according…

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Nova Scotia

Health-care unions reach tentative agreement with N.S. Health, IWK

A strike appears to have been averted in the Nova Scotia health-care sector. The unions representing about 9,000 health-care professionals…

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Sports

Top-ranked Iga Swiatek, other tennis players say mental and physical health ignored

It’s nothing new for tennis players to worry aloud about their sport’s overcrowded calendar, too-tough season and too-short off-season. No.…

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Health

A Regina health clinic is offering a subscription for ‘faster service,’ but critics say it’s privatization

A subscription service being offered by a Regina health clinic is coming under fire from critics and one of its…

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Health

Adult dies after eastern equine encephalitis infection, New Hampshire health officials say

A New Hampshire resident who tested positive for the mosquito-borne infection eastern equine encephalitis virus has died, health authorities in…

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Health

On a mission to fix health care, Jane Philpott is open to a return to politics

More than five years after she was expelled from caucus in the fallout from the SNC-Lavalin affair, former Liberal health minister Jane Philpott…

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Health

Baby in Gaza suffering paralysis from polio virus, World Health Organization says

A 10-month-old baby in war-shattered Gaza has been paralyzed by the type 2 polio virus, the first such case in…

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