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Wake up and smell the coffee on the real risk of pesticide residues
For anyone worried about pesticides, the Environmental Working Group -- a major U.S. environmental organization -- has something for you.
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Toenail analysis may help predict disease
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Analyzing the nicotine content of toenail clippings can help gauge a woman's heart disease risk, a new analysis of finding...
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The hardest working pill on the market
Viagra can do much more than just save your sex life. For the past decade, erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra and Cialis have sent men marchin...
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Flip-flops are your arch enemy
VANCOUVER - Out comes the sun, out come the flip-flops and out come the foot problems.
Flip-flops, available in a rainbow of colours for as little ...
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Names of Facilities With Bad Meat Now Listed
All five regional health authorities in B.C. have released the names of facilities where meat products linked to a nationwide outbreak of listeriosis ...
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Health Officials Prepare for Back-to-School Mumps Outbreak
B.C. s top health officer says health-care workers are ready if the number of cases of mumps jumps dramatically once school resumes next month.
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Salt is killing Canadians: researchers
Our addiction to salt is causing up to 17,000 excess cases a year in Canada of stroke, heart attack and heart failure, according to new Canadian resea...
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Canada puts $100 million into stem cell research
SAN DIEGO - The federal government said Wednesday it was giving $100 million over three years to a partnership between Canadian and California scienti...
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Coffee could help beat MS
A strong cup of coffee may do more than just wake you up in the mornings. It could also help you stave off multiple sclerosis, according to a new stud...
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No plans for mandatory mercury labels on fish
OTTAWA - Even though Canadians want it, Health Canada has no plans to bring in mandatory labelling of mercury in fish, saying it would be complicated...
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Food inspectors say they're stretched to the max
Too much paperwork, too little time, too few staff. OTTAWA -- The inspector stationed at the Toronto plant at the centre of a deadly food-borne outbr...
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Aging Sewage System May Fail More Frequently Thanks to Climate Change
Public health and safety threats are escalating in Metro Vancouver because an aging sewage handling and treatment system will fail more often as a res...
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Anti-HIV drug cocktail boosts survival by 13 years
PARIS - Anti-HIV drugs have slashed death rates among people with the AIDS virus by nearly 40 percent since combination therapy was introduced in 1996...
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City kids dropping the ball for video games
Children from Canada's three largest cities -- Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal -- are participating less in sports today than they did more than 10 ye...
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Coffee and firefighters a bad mix, study finds
VICTORIA - Coffee, North America's favourite black liquid, earned a black mark this week when researchers found that caffeine could distort firefighte...
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Parkinson's link could lead to new treatments
OTTAWA - An Ottawa neurologist is part of an international research team that has uncovered a link between the genetics of blood cells and the brain c...
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Cellphone use during pregnancy may affect child
Women who use cellphones while pregnant may be affecting the behaviour of their unborn child, according to new research.
Scientists at UCLA School ...
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Deadly listeriosis outbreak traced to Maple Leaf meats, officials confirm
Death on Vancouver Island attributed to the bacterium strain. B.C. health officials were reminding the public to be vigilant yesterday after it was c...
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Is a ban on beach smoking really feasible? Hope so...
The Vancouver parks board is considering banning smoking on city beaches.
Coastal Health has brought it to us, and all the conversations are fairl...
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Chuck Your Cilantro As It May Be Contaminated
Canada's food watchdog is recalling cilantro grown in California because it may be tainted with salmonella.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency sai...
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Researchers turn living cells into insulin-makers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have transformed ordinary cells into insulin-producing cells in a living mouse, improving symptoms of diabetes in a...
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Drug restores speech in Alzheimer's
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Alzheimer's patients given a popular rheumatoid arthritis drug showed seemingly dramatic improvements in a small study, but some d...
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Six B.C. doctors disciplined for sexual misconduct in 2007
One doctor has been erased from the register of the B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons and five others were suspended for various lengths of time...
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Humanity on the edge of longevity leap: futurist
Genetic science, stem-cell research and extreme caloric restriction are all part of a burgeoning immortality industry'' that could soon point the way...
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Nag_Champa |
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Bribe me, doc
Financial rewards help people remain healthy. A new health initiative will pay people cash to get them to take their anticoagulant pills - medication...
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Drug Used to Treat Schizophrenia Cures Anorexia?
A drug used to treat schizophrenia may be a new tool to help patients with anorexia gain weight and control their obsessive thoughts about food.
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Where does your meat come from? Report finds "appalling conditions" in BC
Animals faced 'appalling' conditions. Sick, injured livestock crammed into boxes, tied up and thrown.
An undercover investigation at a Fraser Vall...
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'Functional' foods garnering more attention
What to consider when choosing nutraceuticals or probiotics. If you're a television watcher, you've probably noted a number of perky advertisements f...
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Low birthweight adults leave nest later
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young adults who were born very small tend to strike out on their own later in life than their full-term peers, Finnish re...
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Botox shots may help ward off migraines (and any feeling whatsoever)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Injections of botulinum toxin -- better known as Botox -- may help prevent migraines in people who suffer frequent migrain...
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Canadians wrapped in electronic bubble
New study finds that more time is being spent in front of TV, computer screens. We're a nation of couch potatoes, according to a new report that foun...
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Canadian epidemic response better for poultry than people
If a deadly epidemic were to hit tomorrow, poultry would be better protected than people under federal laws, Canada's top medical journal warns.
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Tories won't list leaded lipsticks
OTTAWA - The government refused demands Monday to reveal the names of lipstick brands that were subject to recent testing by Health Canada for detecta...
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Mumps outbreak traced to anti-vaccination religious group
CHILLIWACK -- A growing outbreak of the mumps has been traced to a single original case in a Chilliwack religious group that is opposed to vaccination...
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Food disorders focus of free ad campaign
Bulimia, anorexia are mental illnesses, not choices. A mother and her recovering anorexic daughter hope more people will learn about eating disorders...
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Smoking in movies causes teens to smoke: U.S. report
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tobacco promotions and depictions of smoking in movies cause teenagers to start smoking, according to a sweeping report on tobacco...
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Burning incense linked to respiratory cancers
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Burning incense may create a sweet scent, but regularly inhaling the smoke could put people at risk of cancers of the resp...
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'A nation of lab rats' as devices untested
Medical Implants; Health Canada failing to protect patients: experts. Late in the 1990s, Health Canada licensed a new artificial lens, the latest in ...
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Cancer doctor warns against kids' cellphone use
A prominent cancer specialist in the United States is cautioning parents to limit the use of cellphones by kids to emergencies because he claims the e...
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"Good" cholesterol may protect memory, study finds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Middle-aged people with low levels of so-called good cholesterol may be at higher risk for memory decline that could foreshadow...
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B.C. records largest hike in booze sales
B.C. posted the largest increase in sales of beer, wine and liquor in the country last year, up 10.9 per cent from 2006, according to Statistics Canad...
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'Made in Canada' food labels take effect next year
Majority of ingredients must be processed in Canada, under new rules. OTTAWA - Food products claiming to be Made in Canada must have the majority o...
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Still a lot of cash
We British Columbians, it seems, can pat ourselves on the back: We spend less on medication than Canadians in any other province, according to a new s...
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Schools set to lose money as result of junk-food ban
School districts are bracing for reduced revenue when a provincial ban on junk food in high school vending machines is introduced this September.
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Colour contacts damaging eyes
Japan imposes new restrictions. TOKYO - Many young Japanese women are as happy to change their eye colour as to change their shoes, but the governmen...
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Too much TV time for kids: Report
Sedentary lifestyle may lead to cardiovascular disease, diabetes. Hours spent parked in front of computers and televisions are robbing Canada's kids ...
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Feds want to restrict traditional cures
Doctors of Chinese medicine are gearing up to fight a controversial federal government bill they claim would make many natural health products unavail...
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Nag_Champa |
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Our chemical paranoia
For anyone worried about pesticides, the Environmental Working Group -- a major U.S. environmental organization -- has something for you.
It's a li...
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Nag_Champa |
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Parkinson's drug likely triggering gambling addiction
Patients with Parkinson's disease are about five times more likely to become problem or pathological gamblers than others, concludes a new Canadian st...
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travelbug |
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Surgeries cancelled for lack of nurses
Shortage of critical-care staff could become chronic problem. A shortage of intensive-care nurses at B.C. Children's Hospital in Vancouver has forc...
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