The federal government is spending $36.4 million over the next five years on a campaign to educate Canadians about the health and safety perils of marijuana.
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Ottawa spending $36.4M over 5 years on campaign about perils of legalized pot
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New Jersey becomes latest state to sue Purdue Pharma over OxyContin
State attorney general points 'finger of blame' at Purdue for the opioid epidemic he says has killed thousands in New Jersey.
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Opposition slams Ontario government over 'hallway medicine crisis'
The opposition hammered the governing Liberals over hospital overcrowding during question period at Queen’s Park Tuesday, hours after an exclusive CBC Toronto story revealed that more than 4,300 patients received care in the hallways of Brampton Civic Hospital last year.
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Researchers blame 'seismic shift' in sleep loss among teens on increased smartphone use
Researchers say the amount of sleep teens reported getting fell between 2009 and 2015 "when the mobile technology really saturated the market among adolescents."
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Why some Canadian families can't access the potentially life-saving stem cells they've stored
Parents from across the country are struggling to get ahold of their children's potentially life-saving stem cells amid concerns about the Toronto company they've been paying to store the samples for years.
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Grown-ups Get Food Allergies Too!
Food allergies among adults are on the rise. Dr. Brian Goldman explains why, and what to do about it.
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'So much to be learned': Bernie Sanders commends Canada's health care
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders praised Canada's health care system at a sold-out event at the University of Toronto on Sunday, but also added that it's not perfect.
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E-cigarette use by teens linked to later tobacco smoking, study says
Teenagers who use electronic cigarettes are at risk of graduating to tobacco smoking, a large Canadian study suggests.
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Sweating blood? It happens — and not just on Halloween
There were more reports of people sweating blood after a strange case was reported in a Canadian medical journal this week. Plus, scientists believe that daydreaming might be a sign of intelligence and creativity.
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'I am stressed out': Toronto nursing home closures would be 'traumatic' and 'catastrophic' for families
Families of nursing home residents and seniors' advocates are stressed after learning that some Toronto long-term care homes are thinking of leaving the city rather than rebuild to meet new provincial standards.
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U.S. drug company founder charged with bribing doctors to prescribe addictive opioid
The founder of Insys Therapeutics and a group of colleagues are accused of providing kickbacks to doctors to widely prescribe a fentanyl-based spray called Subsys, intended only for cancer patients with intense pain.
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How these Silicon Valley companies are disrupting the meat industry with their 'meatless meat'
San Francisco Bay Area companies are making meatless burgers, shrimps and other meatless meat products, but some environmentalists say these genetically modified foods are being rushed to the market without adequate testing.
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NDP pushes Liberals to follow Trump, declare opioid crisis a national public health emergency
As President Donald Trump declares the opioid crisis a national public health emergency in the U.S., the NDP is pushing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to do the same for this country.
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U.S. study links marijuana use to more sex
Where there is smoke, there tends to be fire, say medical researchers who conducted research indicating frequent marijuana users have about 20 per cent more sex than those who don't smoke pot.
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After 60 years, Ottawa compensates daughter of CIA brainwashing experiments victim
Years ago, Alison Steel's mother became a victim of CIA-funded brainwashing experiments at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute. Now, 60 years later, she has won a measure of justice for her family and compensation from the federal government.
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Trump declares opioid crisis 'a national health emergency'
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday declared the opioid crisis a nationwide public health emergency — a step that won't bring new dollars to fight a scourge that kills nearly 100 Americans a day but will expand access to medical services in rural areas, among other changes.
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Waiting to die: Winnipeg man says faith-based hospital delayed access to assisted death
An 88-year-old Winnipeg man wants to end his life after being confined to a bed for several months with no chance of recovering, and says the faith-based hospital where he now lives is delaying that request.
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Pediatricians 'increasingly' being asked about assisted death for kids
The Canadian Paediatric Society says its members are "increasingly" being asked by parents about the option of seeking medically assisted death for children.
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Ontario makes it illegal to protest outside and near abortion clinics
The legislature passed a bill Wednesday to create zones around the eight clinics in the province of between 50 and 150 metres in which anti-abortion protests will be banned.
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Best pro baseball players throw right, hit left
For baseball players, throwing right-handed and batting left-handed may be the best combination for success in the major leagues, according a new analysis of player data from 1871 through 2016.
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Brain changes may persist in teenage athletes months after concussion: study
A new Canadian study suggests teenage athletes who sustain concussions may still be experiencing brain changes even after they have been cleared to return to play.
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Soylent can no longer be sold in Canada, food inspection agency rules
Soylent, the meal replacement drink that's been called both "the future of food" in breathless headlines and "the end of food" by the New Yorker, can't be shipped to Canadian consumers anymore due to a failure to meet federal food regulations.
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NB Liquor to sell recreational cannabis in stand-alone pot stores
The New Brunswick government says it will enter the legal-cannabis retail market by having NB Liquor set up a network of tightly controlled, stand-alone stores starting next July.
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'Gluten free' label to be removed from Cheerios in Canada
General Mills says its Cheerios cereal meets the standard to be labelled gluten free, but will voluntarily remove the label amid disagreement with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency about gluten testing protocol.
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Health Canada knew it was failing First Nations children, documents say
Health Canada officials were sent scrambling following a landmark human rights ruling last year that found the federal government discriminated against First Nation children by under funding services for First Nation children, according to internal correspondence provided to CBC News.
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Crying babies push same buttons in mothers' brains across cultures, study suggests
The way mothers in 11 different countries respond to their baby's cries seems to be programmed into their brain circuits, new research has found.
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Edmonton worker allergic to walnuts dies after inhaling particles at worksite
An Edmonton man is dead after he went into anaphylactic shock on a worksite where sandblasting was taking place with a walnut-based product.
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Foods with 'no added sugar' might not add up to healthy eating, Canadian study finds
A new study from the University of Toronto finds that packaged foods labelled with claims like "no added sugar" or "reduced in sugar" might have lower sugar levels than ones without — but that doesn't mean they have big reductions in calories.
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A hospice story: The 'amazing' last days of Diana Fitzharris
Like many Canadians, Diana Fitzharris was reluctant to turn to hospice care, but near the end of her battle with ALS it gave her and loved ones a chance to live her final days to their fullest.
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Ontario reopens 2 shuttered Toronto hospital sites to cope with overcrowding crisis
Ontario plans to reopen parts of two shuttered hospital sites in Toronto in a bid to tackle the province's significant shortage of beds for patients who need care, a situation that will likely get worse as flu season descends on the city.
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Read this if you're considering a hot tub birth
A newborn nearly died following a hot tub birth. @NightshiftMD assesses the risk & shares details of a new @CMAJ case report.
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Sweating blood: bizarre disorder baffles doctors
Doctors in Italy recently treated a patient with a condition that caused her to sweat blood from her face and from the palms of her hands. There are those who question whether hematohidrosis exists, but a Canadian medical historian says it's extremely rare but legitimate.
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Conservatives accuse Liberals of diabetes tax grab
Health groups joined forces on Sunday with the Conservative opposition to accuse the Liberal government of trying to raise tax revenue on the backs of vulnerable diabetics.
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Q & A | Teens search for way to improve magnetic resonance images
MRI scans provide information about the body without actually touching it. Now two Toronto teens are trying to adapt that approach to search for what is in someone's blood noninvasively.
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Judge overturns $417M award against Johnson & Johnson in ovarian cancer case
A judge in Los Angeles has tossed out a $417-million US jury award to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer by using Johnson & Johnson talc-based baby powder for feminine hygiene.
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Nature's Mix removes cancer claim from granola label after Marketplace investigation into 'superfoods'
Nature's Mix, a company that makes granola with quinoa that it markets as a "superfood" and that included a nutrition label that claimed quinoa "prevents cancer" has removed the claim after a Marketplace investigation.
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Discredited vaccine paper highlights issue in retraction process, experts say
Canadian researchers say retraction should be 'instantaneous,' but note that's not always the case, and that flawed studies continue to live online.
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How mixed-up cell lines are contaminating science
The scientific literature is littered with cell line mix-ups but there's nothing to alert scientists that conclusions might be faulty. New glimpses at the way scientists might identify and treat cancer in the future. And the origins of those quirky names for human anatomy.
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Motherisk hair test evidence tossed out of Colorado court 2 decades before questions raised in Canada
A capital murder trial in Colorado in 1993 raised serious issues with the reliability of Motherisk hair tests more than two decades before any issues were raised about the tests in Canada, a joint investigation by The Fifth Estate, CBC Radio’s The Current and the Toronto Star has found.
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Backyard chicken trend causes spike in infections, 1 fatal, CDC reports
The popular trend of raising backyard chickens is bringing with it a soaring number of illnesses from poultry-related diseases, some of them fatal, U.S. health officials say.
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'A touch can speak a thousand words': Soothing touch can ease hurt feelings
A slow, stroking touch eases the sting of social rejection, psychologists find.
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'It's a tragedy': How the flawed Motherisk hair test helped fracture families across Canada
In a joint investigation with CBC Radio’s The Current and the Toronto Star, The Fifth Estate has spoken to half a dozen families across Canada whose families were broken in part as a result of faulty hair tests done by the Hospital for Sick Children’s Motherisk lab.
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Pollution causing more deaths worldwide than war or smoking: Lancet
Increasing pollution worldwide is proving deadlier than war, natural disasters or smoking, according to a new report in the Lancet medical journal.
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Prescription limits driving some patients to street drugs
Some patients say they're turning to dangerous street drugs in the wake of new national guidelines limiting the allowable dosage of prescription painkillers and new restrictions under the Ontario Drug Benefit plan.
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'She was suffering because of my choice': Hundreds of babies born with opioid dependence
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has identified 1,846 babies admitted to hospital between April 2016 and March 31, 2017, after their mothers used opioids during pregnancy.
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Quebec radiologists billing $3M annually for obsolete task
Quebec radiologists are routinely billing RAMQ for analyzing coronary angiograms, sometimes years after procedures were carried out. The practice, deemed unnecessary by some, is costing taxpayers about $3 million a year, found Radio-Canada's Enquête.
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18 illnesses tied to frozen breaded chicken products, Public Health Agency of Canada says
The Public Health Agency of Canada is investigating 18 cases of salmonella linked to frozen raw breaded chicken products.
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Glioblastoma, brain tumour that took Gord Downie's life, tough to treat, doctors say
The passing of singer-songwriter Gord Downie also puts a spotlight on the need for more funding for research into the form of brain cancer that about 1,000 Canadians are diagnosed with every year.
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Governments grappling with how to keep pot bought online out of the hands of underage users
The Liberal government's point man on pot legalization says strict safeguards will be put in place for home delivery of the drug once it is available for purchase online as planned.
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Gord Downie used voice to 'shed a light' on aggressive brain cancer
The death of Gord Downie hits close to home for Winnipegger Jared Spier, whose partner Joanne Schiewe died from the same brain cancer that took the Tragically Hip frontman.
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Quadriplegic nearly missed MRI because no staff were trained to assist him
The husband of a quadriplegic man in Halifax is calling on the Nova Scotia Health Authority to improve services for patients with mobility issues, after a scheduled MRI was nearly derailed due to a lack of staff trained to assist.
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Woman alleged to have unlawfully injected botox for years under investigation
The B.C. College of Physicians and Surgeons is seeking an injunction against a Surrey woman — Rajdeep Kaur Khakh — who it says may have unlawfully injected clients with botox and other substances while posing as a doctor at salons, "botox parties" and in clients' homes according to court documents.
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