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Michelle Obama urges food makers to hurry up on healthy food

Obama, who is spearheading an administration initiative on child obesity, praised members of the Grocery Manufacturers Association for reducing calories and salt in food.

Mental Health

Antidepressants can help people with physical ills

While around 10 percent of patients with physical diseases are thought to suffer from depression, studies suggest doctors are less likely to prescribe antidepressants because they are not sure if the medicines will work well.

Chronic-sun cancers put twist on work hazard

One dermatologist warns the trend to compensate those who have a higher chance of skin cancer on the job could have major consequences, given that skin cancers are the most common type of the disease.

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Healthy Living

Canadians turning to “vitamin cocktails” to boost energy, health

When Elaine Kunda felt a cold coming on early in the winter, she decided to be proactive about her health and get a vitamin intravenous.

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Healthy Living

Integrated health services crossing the divide

Pet power: Good companions can enhance their humans’ health

Women's Health

Freezing breast-cancer tumours avoids surgery

Breast-cancer sufferers could avoid the need for surgery in the future after doctors discovered a way of destroying tumours by freezing them.

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Health

Women more likely to die after heart attack: Study

Birth control pill poses no added health risk

Men's Health

Men likelier than women to enjoy sex in old age

Men are more than twice as likely as women to be sexually active in old age but good health is the key for both to feeling naughty, says a study published Wednesday by the British Medical Journal.

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Lung Disease

High-fibre diet linked to lower lung disease risk

Friends buy dad with 'terminal' throat cancer another chance

Seniors

A doctor goes over a patient's x-ray, screening for colon cancer.

Age likely a factor in colon cancer chemotherapy

Older patients with colon cancer are less likely to receive chemotherapy after surgery than younger people but have fewer serious side-effects when they do get the treatment, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

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Driving Safety

Docs need standard method to ID seniors' driving skills

Flu shots futile: Study

Children

No tan is a safe tan

With March Break springing up in many parts of the country, the Canadian Cancer Society issued the following reminder: if you're thinking of getting a...

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Child Anxiety

The anxious child

Companies faulted for marketing aimed at kids

U.S. forcing more meat inspections in Canada

Inspections at dozens of large meat-processing plants in Canada are too infrequent to meet U.S. food-safety standards, newly released internal records...

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Common treatments fail to lower diabetic heart risk: study

Diabetics who seek to aggressively lower their blood pressure and cholesterol are not reducing their risk of a heart attack and could suffer negative ...

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Scientists shed light on the effects of sleep

A study conducted by researchers at the University of California San Diego found that 68-year-old adults, on average, did better on a simple memory test...

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Arts & Life

Foods for the future

The chefs have spoken. Upcoming food trends, it seems, will lead diners into deeper healthier, but unfamiliar, territory. The Canadian Restaurant and...

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Two-for-one fitness

Two women kick into one shared passion to transform their lives.

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Your best diet? It might be in your genes

Can't lose weight on a low-fat diet? Maybe you need to cut carbs instead, and a new genetic test may point the way, maker Interleukin Genetics Inc reported...

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HIV Project

A nurse makes a quick HIV test, during the launching in Mexico City of the worldwide campaign 'Love Condoms', on August 28, 2009.

Decision to cancel HIV vaccine facility 'fair and open:' Butler-Jones

The head of Canada's public health agency said Tuesday there was nothing untoward in last month's decision to shelve plans to build a multimillion-dollar...

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Quebec to pay for fertility treatments

By late June, Quebec will become the first jurisdiction in North America to introduce free fertility treatments to women having difficulties getting pregnant...

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U.S. herpes rates remain high: CDC

About 16 percent of Americans between the ages of 14 and 49 are infected with genital herpes, making it one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases...

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