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VANCOUVER — British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix says minimum nurse-to-patient ratios meant to improve care and strengthen the health-care system have now been established for most hospital settings.

SAINT-GABRIEL-DE-VALCARTIER, Que. — All 16 Canadian soldiers sent to hospital after they were injured on a Quebec military base have been released.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A longtime donor who has given more than $160 million to Tulane University is the new namesake of the the university's expanding 112-year-old graduate school of public health , Tulane officials announced Wednesday.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov.

TORONTO — Neil Lumsden has signed his organ donor card for decades, so the decision to do his part for concussion research was a no-brainer.

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The global vaccine alliance Gavi will buy 500,000 doses of mpox vaccine to battle outbreaks of the disease in African countries, the organization said on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In 2019, Brandon McDowell was contacted by a sophomore in college who asked to buy Percocet, a prescription painkiller.

TORONTO — There is less and less space on the lawn for the dozens upon dozens of bright white crosses. The grass between the fire station and the sidewalks on a downtown corner in Sudbury, Ont.

FREDERICTON — Grant Jordan was driving to a friend's house on Aug. 31 when he started feeling tightness in his chest. He immediately returned home and asked his wife, Naomi, to take him to the hospital, a five-minute drive away.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Democratic Gov.