Health

ASHBURN, Va.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials on Thursday backed the public health benefits of nicotine pouches , authorizing Philip Morris International’s Zyn to help adult smokers cut back or quit cigarettes.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's Democratic Gov.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The vast majority of Americans are about to get an extended taste of frigid Siberian weather.

TORONTO — A synthetic dye newly banned from the U.S. food supply will remain available in Canada, where the federal regulator has deemed it is not a health risk to the general population. With the latest decision by the U.S.

MADISON, Wis.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials on Thursday backed the public health benefits of nicotine pouches, authorizing Philip Morris International’s Zyn to help adult smokers cut back or quit cigarettes.

VANCOUVER — Lumpy Eye the chicken has made plenty of friends in her East Vancouver neighbourhood over the years, said owner Duncan Martin, with passersby regularly greeting her in the yard outside their home.

Susan Scarbro stares down a bowling lane at the distant pins. She hears a sound that breaks her focus. Was that a cough? Will her mask protect her? COVID-19 remains a very present threat for the 55-year-old.

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of the brain to break down and die.