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HIV+ and looking to conceive

When a permanent, quarantined laboratory opens at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital this spring, the barriers to reproductive services may start to disappear for couples living with HIV. But there's still a long way to go


Vulvodynia: Dismissed and undiagnosed

Sufferers are often told it's 'all in their heads.' But chronic vulvar pain is real, medical researchers say


More Canadian doctors come home

More Canadian physicians are returning from abroad to practise medicine in this country than are leaving, says report


Women moved into new health work, study finds

Continue to dominate nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, but number grow in pharmacy and medicine


Still not enough family doctors, group says

Family doctors' report card says little progress in increasing their ranks

Food For Thought

Ten steps to avoid the holiday spread

Leslie Beck

You can still enjoy your favourite festive treats – just have some strategies in place to keep from overdoing it


Research

How to live longer: Take care of your sick spouse

Paul Taylor

Elderly people who care for a disabled or dying spouse appear to live longer, says study


Public health policy

What we can all learn from Nunavut

Andre Picard

There, Canada's new Health Minister set fixed targets to build healthy communities - let's hope she brings new thinking to Ottawa


Will a few weeks off from exercise hurt me?

Keep up your workout intensity or you'll pay for it later

 

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Health Canada tests find melamine in baby food

One of the first times the industrial chemical used to make plastic has been found in baby food made in North America

Safe injection may save system $14-million

Vancouver's Insite could also prevent more than 1,000 HIV infections over a 10-year period

Mammograms may lead to cancer overdiagnosis

A significant portion of invasive breast cancers may regress on their own without treatment, suggests new study

Pharmacists shouldn't prescribe smoking drugs: critics

Drugs linked to serious side effects and increased risk for health problems

Skip the doctor's office, go right to the drugstore

More provinces look to grant pharmacists greater power to prescribe drugs

Doctors successful in transplant of windpipe with stem cells

‘They have created a functional, biological structure that can't be rejected'

A toke a day keeps memory loss at bay

Small doses of marijuana improve the function of aging brains, scientists find

Canadians carrying less lead

Contamination by heavy metal drops sharply in 30 years, Statscan reports

Tuberculosis facts

All about TB and its prevalence in Canada and the world

Is it really asthma?

New research shows almost one-third of adult Canadians diagnosed with asthma may not actually have the condition


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