Health

VANCOUVER — Two forensic psychiatrists have concluded their testimony at a hearing to determine if the man accused of killing 11 people at Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day festival is fit to stand trial.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Reveille X, Texas A&M's rough collie mascot, had her right eye surgically removed after veterinarians diagnosed her with glaucoma, the university's president said Wednesday.

EDMONTON — The Alberta government has put registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses back on the list of professionals who can get benefits when they experience job-related stress disorder.

OTTAWA — Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel is not committing to sign pharmacare funding deals with all provinces and territories.

A West Virginia judge on Thursday allowed the children of three families in one county to attend school this fall without required vaccinations, the latest move in a showdown between Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey and the state Board of Education.

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada is allowing a class-action lawsuit against New Brunswick’s largest health authority and an obstetrics nurse to proceed.

HALIFAX — A measles outbreak Nova Scotia has risen to 30 cases in a northern part of the province with a low vaccination rate, health officials said Thursday.

Three years after the Supreme Court opened the door to state abortion bans , most U.S. adults say abortion should be legal — views that look similar to before the landmark ruling.

TORONTO — Canada's former measles hot spot is reporting no new cases for the first time since a spring surge.

A baby born at only 21 weeks of gestation last July in Iowa City, Iowa, has just celebrated his first birthday, and among his gifts is a Guinness world record for most premature baby.