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• Canada could approve first COVID shot for youngest kids this month: feds

  Federal officials say a COVID-19 vaccine for Canada's youngest children could be approved as soon as this month.

  

• More than half of Canada's AstraZeneca vaccine doses expired, will be thrown out

  Canada is about to toss more than half of its doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine because it couldn't find any takers for it either at home or abroad.

  

• Women in Canadian tech urging companies to pay for U.S. staff to travel for abortions

  A group of prominent women in Canada's tech sector are calling for employers to pay for U.S. staff to travel to get abortions.

  

• Two young ER doctors quit Montreal jobs, blaming Quebec's broken health-care system and Bill 96

  Two young emergency room doctors, raised and trained in Montreal, are leaving their jobs after only two years to move back to Toronto – and they say the Quebec health-care model and Bill 96 are to blame.

  

• Germany's CureVac files suit against vaccine rival BioNTech

  German biotech company CureVac said Tuesday it has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival BioNTech for work that it says contributed to the development of the BioNTech-Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.

• After abortion ruling, U.S. clinic staff grapple with trauma

  Nationwide, U.S. workers at clinics that shuttered abortion services are feeling fear and stress as they try to pick up the pieces and chart a path forward. At the Women's Health Center of West Virginia, the days following the historic court ruling brought on a different kind of grief for staff as their new reality set in.

• Poorest Canadians nearly 4 times more likely to die from opioids than richest: study

  A new study looking at opioid deaths across Canada over 17 years has found that low-income Canadians are almost four times more likely to die from opioids than high-income Canadians.

• New drugs effective at killing leukemia cells, early study finds

  New research has identified a unique form of chemotherapy which preliminary experiments show is effective at targeting different leukemia cells.

• Infection with HIV can accelerate aging within the first two to three years of infection, study says

  Living with HIV may have an immediate effect on how your body ages, according to new research which showed that cellular aging was sped up within two to three years of infection.

• Medication abortion is common. Here's how it works

  Medication abortions became the preferred method for ending pregnancy in the U.S. even before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. These involve taking two prescription medicines days apart -- at home or in a clinic.

• Oyster mushrooms sold in B.C. recalled due to listeria

  A brand of oyster mushrooms sold in British Columbia is being recalled because of possible listeria contamination.

• Amid buzz around the medical benefits of magic mushrooms, a new production facility gets to work in B.C.

  In southern B.C, there's a new 20,000-square-foot production facility where one particular product is generating a lot of buzz: magic mushrooms, which a handful of businesses have been federally approved to produce.