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- OxyContin worries misplaced: pain experts
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:12:07 EDT - Ontario's new strategy to restrict inappropriate use of opioid painkillers like OxyContin could discourage doctors from prescribing them when needed, pain experts say.
- 600 B.C. patients' data in stolen laptop
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:27:57 EDT - Personal information about more than 600 patients of the Fraser Health Authority in British Columbia is contained in a laptop stolen from Burnaby General Hospital.
- Pampers Dry Max diapers not linked to rash
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:58:35 EDT - No link has been found between Pampers diapers with Dry Max liners and diaper rash, Canadian and U.S. officials say.
- JAMA editor to leave
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:44:10 EDT - Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, editor in chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is leaving the post next year to return to Johns Hopkins medical school.
- Kitchen survey shows health risks
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:53:50 EDT - A study from California's Los Angeles County found only 61 per cent of home kitchens would get an A or B if put through the rigours of a restaurant inspection.
- Dementia risk double in PTSD veterans: study
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:16:36 EDT - Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder may have a higher risk of dementia than those without the stress disorder, a U.S. study suggests.
- West Nile virus kills 13 in Greece
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:49:14 EDT - West Nile virus has killed 13 people in Greece, health authorities say.
- Marijuana gateway risk overblown: study
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:21:56 EDT - Long-held fears that the use of marijuana will lead to harder drugs are overblown, according to new research from the University of New Hampshire.
- TB test could revolutionize care: WHO
- Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:41:08 EDT - A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether someone has tuberculosis and if it's resistant to the main drug for treating it, scientists have found.
- E. coli leads to beef recall in Toronto
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:08:25 EDT - The Canadian Food Inspection agency is warning Toronto-area consumers about a recall of beef from the Kabul Farms retail store in North York.
- Health minister rejects MS therapy trial
- Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:45:08 EDT - The Canadian government will not fund a clinical trial of the so-called liberation therapy for multiple sclerosis at this time, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq says.
- Organic strawberries tops in taste, nutrition
- Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:45:18 EDT - The most comprehensive study of its kind into the quality of organic food and soil has concluded organically grown strawberries are more flavourful and nutritious.
- Sleepy teens eat more fat: study
- Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:24:33 EDT - Teens who sleep less than eight hours on weeknights tend to eat more fatty foods than those who doze longer, researchers have found.
- Leaving N.L. for pregnancy care an ordeal: patient
- Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:36:17 EDT - A woman who is one of 11 in the past month to have been sent out of Newfoundland and Labrador for medical care because the province's hospitals couldn't handle her high-risk pregnancy says her experience was horrible.
- Quebec groups call for more sex ed
- Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:54:47 EDT - A coalition of Quebec women's groups and health professionals say they are witnessing an explosion of sexually transmitted diseases among young people, and the coalition says the provincial government's education reform is to blame.
