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 U.N. finds high blood pressure, high glucose - signs that diseases of affluence are spreadingA quarter of those 25 or older now have high blood pressure worldwide, and almost one in 10 has worrying levels of glucose in their blood.
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 Children at risk as 'button' battery use grows: studyChildren face a growing risk from 'button' batteries, according to a U.S. study showing a near doubling of emergency room visits in the past two decades as the objects can cause electrical or chemical burns if swallowed.
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 Report finds poor diet remains recipe for disaster as Canadians get olderCanadians have made slight progress in the battle to combat chronic disease through diet choices even as the nation's children fall even further behind, a study from an independent think tank suggests.
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 How much training is too much for young athletes?Striving to be best not as important as fostering love of sport and activity.
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 Australia mourns 'angel' who prevented suicidesAustralians are mourning the man known as the Angel of The Gap, who stopped hundreds of people from leaping to their deaths at Sydney’s most notorious suicide spot.
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 Medical ink trending up -- but can tattoos save lives?The Canadian Medical Association Journal reports that medical tattooing "appears to be a trend on the rise," with people inking everything from chronic conditions to emergency health directives onto their skin.
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 Young cancer patients' video a big hitA video featuring cancer-stricken children, their nurses, doctors and parents lip-synching and dancing to the popular Kelly Clarkson song "Stronger" has become an online sensation.
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 Surf's up in the fitness studioSpun out on spinning? Bored in barre class? Indoor surfing is a new workout, born of the sea but carving out a place in the center of town.
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 Fish tied to lower colon cancer risk: studyPeople who eat plenty of fish may have a lower risk of colon and rectal cancers, a new report suggests.
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 Psychiatrists say diagnosis manual needs overhaulMany psychiatrists believe a new edition of a manual designed to help diagnose mental illness should be shelved for at least a year for further revisions, despite some modifications which eliminated two controversial diagnoses.
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 Double lung recipient Hélène Campbell is back in a Toronto hospital after experiencing shortness of breath. Manon Campbell, Helene's mother, announced the setback in a blog post.
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 Health Canada reminds Canadians of importance of food allergy awarenessIt doesn't take much to trigger a reaction in someone with a food allergy -- ingesting a tiny piece of peanut or unknowingly eating pasta containing shrimp in a restaurant. In someone with a severe allergy to these items, this can be life-threatening.
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 Scientists find way to detect low-level toxins in mussels, 25 years after deadly exposureNearly 25 years after toxic mussels from Prince Edward Island killed three Canadians, severely sickened 100 others and rocked the federal Conservative government of the day, a team of U.S. scientists has announced a major breakthrough that could lead to a simple test for chronic exposure to the poison in both humans and marine mammals.
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 Mothers cling to chubby ideal for toddlers: studyMothers of overweight toddlers often mistakenly think their children are normal weight, and mothers of underweight toddlers often wish they were plumper, U.S. researchers say.
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 Swine flu vaccine may fight lethal strains, B.C. researchers findA team of scientists led by researchers from the University of British Columbia have found that swine flu vaccine triggers antibodies that protect against many flu viruses including the lethal bird-flu strain.
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 Talk to teens, young adults about sun safety: panelNew recommendations from a U.S. government-backed panel call for primary care doctors to talk about the importance of wearing sunscreen and covering up on sunny days with their fair-skinned teenage and young adult patients.
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 Training immune system to fight cancer comes of ageMore than 100 years after researchers first explored the potential to harness the body's immune system to fight cancer, the field's leading doctors see the concept finally proving itself on a large scale in the next year or two.
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 Mental health strategy calls for significant cash boost to address crisisCanada's first-ever national mental-health strategy is calling for an overhaul of a system it calls so fractured and underfunded that it's turning prisons and jails into the "asylums of the 21st century" and leading many community service groups to drop waiting lists to avoid giving people false hope that "eventually their turn will come."
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 Oft-misdiagnosed form of arthritis causes crippling pain in the youngDespite affecting between 150,000 and 300,000 Canadians, according to the Arthritis Society, ankylosing spondylitis is still widely misunderstood.
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 Want to quit smoking ? Try acupuncture or hypnosisAcupuncture and hypnosis have been promoted as drug-free ways to help smokers kick the habit, and there is some evidence that they work, according to a research review that looked at 14 international studies.
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 Double lung transplant recipient Hélène Campbell has been discharged from the hospital and is now at her home in Toronto.
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 After IVF, some couples get pregnant without helpDespite the label of being "infertile," some couples who have tried fertility treatments are later able to have a baby naturally, according to a new study from France.
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 Tainted dog food sickens 14 people in U.S.Tainted dog food has sickened at least 14 people in the United States, health officials say.
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 Kids on cow farms may have fewer allergiesKids who grow up on farms and have contact with cows and cow milk are less likely to have allergies and asthma than kids raised nearby but not on a farm, according to a new study from Europe.
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 Vitamins E, C no help against vision disorderTaking vitamins E and C may do nothing to protect aging eyes from macular degeneration -- the leading cause of vision loss in older adults, a new clinical trial finds.
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