Tag Archives: Health
Tommy John, namesake for a pioneering elbow surgery that saved his career, dead at 83
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tommy John, who won 288 games during a 26-year big league career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that later was named afte...
Aug 16, 2026
Tommy John, namesake for a pioneering elbow surgery that saved his career, dead at 83
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tommy John, who won 288 games during a 26-year big league career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that later was named afte...
Aug 16, 2026
'We don't even have a phone': Aging B.C. wildfire evacuees faced unique challenges
VANCOUVER - Helen Benallick said she was fast asleep with her husband at their home in Summerland, B.C., last week when she was woken up by neighbours ringing her doorbell. They told the couple they n...
Aug 15, 2026
'We don't even have a phone': Aging B.C. wildfire evacuees faced unique challenges
VANCOUVER - Helen Benallick said she was fast asleep with her husband at their home in Summerland, B.C., last week when she was woken up by neighbours ringing her doorbell. They told the couple they n...
Aug 15, 2026
Fastest-growing Ebola outbreak through the eyes of Canadian aid workers
TORONTO - Little pink coffins are sold on the roadside in Bunia, a northeastern city in the Congo, prepared for children who will die of Ebola. Meghan Thumath, a registered nurse and public health del...
Aug 15, 2026
Osborne to finance, Kahlon to health in B.C. cabinet shuffle: Eby
VANCOUVER - B.C. Premier David Eby has rearranged his cabinet after Finance Minister Brenda Bailey announced a cancer diagnosis. Health Minister Josie Osborne will take over the finance portfolio, whi...
Aug 14, 2026
Osborne to finance, Kahlon to health in B.C. cabinet shuffle: Eby
VANCOUVER - B.C. Premier David Eby has rearranged his cabinet after Finance Minister Brenda Bailey announced a cancer diagnosis. Health Minister Josie Osborne will take over the finance portfolio, whi...
Aug 14, 2026
B.C. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey diagnosed with 'early-stage, treatable cancer'
VICTORIA - British Columbia Finance Minister Brenda Bailey says she has early-stage, treatable cancer. Bailey said in a post on social media that the diagnosis came a few weeks ago and she has been gi...
Aug 13, 2026
B.C. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey diagnosed with 'early-stage, treatable cancer'
VICTORIA - British Columbia Finance Minister Brenda Bailey says she has early-stage, treatable cancer. Bailey said in a post on social media that the diagnosis came a few weeks ago and she has been gi...
Aug 13, 2026
Congo’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak reaches a sixth province
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congo's Ebola outbreak has spread to a sixth province after a death was recorded in the previously unaffected Bas-Uele province, the head of Africa's CDC said Thursday. The man ...
Aug 13, 2026