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Nova Scotia health data at risk due to ineffective cybersecurity: report

Nova Scotia health data at risk due to ineffective cybersecurity: report

HALIFAX — A new report says Nova Scotia doesn’t provide effective cybersecurity for its digital health networks, exposing the system to risk.
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Harris will campaign in Texas to highlight state's abortion ban in a pitch to battleground voters

Harris will campaign in Texas to highlight state's abortion ban in a pitch to battleground voters

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will head to reliably Republican Texas just 10 days before Election Day in an effort to refocus her campaign against former President Donald Trump on reproductive care, which Democrats see as a make-or-b
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Researchers in a lab near Lake Erie study how toxic algae can damage health

Researchers in a lab near Lake Erie study how toxic algae can damage health

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Steven Haller remembers the look of fear on people's faces when toxic algae in Lake Erie made it into his community's water supply 10 years ago, shutting it down for two days.
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On Lake Erie, getting rid of problem algae starts with giving it less food

On Lake Erie, getting rid of problem algae starts with giving it less food

OREGON, Ohio (AP) — On a warm late-summer evening, a small speedboat motored across a pea-green stretch of Lake Erie past a beach where a child sat splashing and a pair of newlyweds waded for a portrait photographer.
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Women in states with bans are getting abortions at similar rates as under Roe, report says

Women in states with bans are getting abortions at similar rates as under Roe, report says

Women living in states with abortion bans obtained the procedure in the second half of 2023 at about the same rate as before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a report released Tuesday.
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Germany's disease control center reports 1st case of new mpox variant

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's disease control center said Tuesday that a new, more infectious variant of the mpox virus has been detected in Germany for the first time.
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Judge doesn't swallow B.C. 'cow share' operator's raw milk case in decades-long fight

Judge doesn't swallow B.C. 'cow share' operator's raw milk case in decades-long fight

A B.C. Supreme Court judge says a longtime raw milk advocate who once tried to circumvent regulations through a "cow share" program can't try to overturn the provincial ban on unpasteurized milk again after two previous unsuccessful attempts.
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Potential listeria contamination causes frozen waffle recall in Canada, U.S.

An American food manufacturing company has issued a voluntary recall of various frozen waffle products in the United States and Canada because of potential listeria contamination.
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Inequality has broad impacts on the health of Montreal children, report finds

Inequality has broad impacts on the health of Montreal children, report finds

MONTREAL — A new public health report says economic inequality has wide-ranging effects on Montreal children’s health and development, affecting everything from high school graduation rates to screen time.
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Supply shortage for Ontario home care, palliative patients 'unacceptable': minister

Supply shortage for Ontario home care, palliative patients 'unacceptable': minister

TORONTO — Ontario is wrestling with delays and shortages of supplies needed for home and palliative care, with dying people unable to get sedatives and patients going to hospital because their supplies have run out, the province's doctors say.
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