There are some encouraging signs in a new report on hospital wait times in Canada For the past two years the Wait Time Alliance has reported a worrisome trend of little to no progress in reducing waits for a range of necessary medical care in Canada. A review of the 2014 provincial wait-time data reveals that some provinces have or …

Progression-free survival almost doubled in women with platinum-sensitive relapsed ovarian cancer treated with two targeted drugs instead of one, a small randomized trial showed. Patients treated with the two investigational agents olaparib and cediranib had a median PFS of 17.7 months compared with 9.0 months for patients who received only olaparib, according to Joyce Liu, MD, of MD Anderson Cancer …

Lethbridge Regional Police Service is investigating a case of animal cruelty, after two small dogs died of strychnine poisoning. Earlier today, police responded to a report from a local vet clinic that two miniature schnauzers had died as a result of ingesting strychnine.

A 14-year-old Canadian girl was killed and four family members were injured Sunday afternoon after their SUV overturned and rolled down a steep embankment, before coming to rest on the median, state police said.

New techniques to prevent mums passing on serious mitochondrial disease to their unborn babies, are potentially useful, but only for specific and defined groups, a panel of experts has concluded today. It will now be up to the government to decide whether to pass legislation to make these techniques available in the UK.

A child infected with measles may have exposed others to the disease last week at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the King County health department said Sunday.

Researchers are now able to measure minuscule differences in temperature thanks to a new thermometer made from light. According to an article published by Physical Review Letters magazine, the thermometer is able to measure temperature differences to 30 billionths of a degree in one second and uses light to measure temperature.

The “Edge of Tomorrow” star shocked fans at a Chicago, Illinois movie theater on Friday by showing up unannounced after a screening of his new action film

FLIGHTS between Australia and Bali have mostly resumed as ash plumes from a volcano on the eastern Indonesian island of Sumbawa continue to disperse. Two Jetstar flights out of Perth and bound for Denpasar were cancelled on Monday morning but services scheduled for later in the day were expected to go ahead.

Seven people, including two teenagers, were shot at laundromat on the South Side of Chicago Monday night. Chicago Fire spokesman Larry Langford said the seven shot included a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old boy. Police said the others shot ranged in age from the 20s to the 50s.

Good news at Winnipeg Beach. Manitoba Conservation’s Rob Nedotiafko says the potash put into the harbour to rid the waters of zebra mussels is having an impact. He says it’s the same elsewhere.