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'Not stalled': Trump plans Friday meet with vaping stakeholders
Health ||
'It's literally life or death': Students say University of Toronto dragging feet on mental health services
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Melissa Mancini & Ioanna Roumeliotis
Canada -Toronto ||
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Lawyers launch $500M class-action lawsuit against Roundup makers
Business |
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Proposed P.E.I. vaping bill seeks to strictly regulate products, raise age limit to 21
P.E.I. could soon have some of the strictest vaping laws in the country.
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Kevin Yarr
Canada -PEI ||
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Vancouver woman suing after 'painful' laser hair removal leaves her scarred
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Andrea Ross
Canada -British Columbia ||
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Ex-NDP leader Tom Mulcair featured at pro-homeopathy conference in Montreal
Politics ||
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Mailing free home HIV tests helps detect more infections, U.S. study shows
Health |
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Trump backing off ban on vaping flavours popular with teens
Health ||
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Manitoba nurses' college puts mandatory English tests on hold after pushback from schools
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Kristin Annable
Canada -Manitoba ||
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Drug used to treat gout cuts odds of new heart attack, stroke in heart attack survivors
Health ||
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Dr. Brian's Blog
Obesity-related cancers on the rise in younger Canadians: study
Health |
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Samoa officials declare emergency in measles outbreak that has killed 6
World |
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London Children's Hospital not alone in barring in-person gifts to patients
Andrew Lupton
Canada -London ||
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MD in court to claim too-long waits give patients right to pay for private health care
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Camille Bains
Canada -British Columbia ||
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'Moms are put at risk every day': Flin Flon still without birth services, 1 year later
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Marina von Stackelberg
Canada -Manitoba ||
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How technology is helping make N.S. health care more efficient
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David Burke
Canada -Nova Scotia ||
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Saskatchewan government considers funding first supervised consumption site
Canada -Saskatoon ||
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2010 coroner's investigation raised questions over Thunder Bay hospital's discharge practices
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Jorge Barrera
Indigenous |
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Second Opinion
'It's torture': Is a mysterious cannabis-related illness underdiagnosed in Canada?
Adam Miller
Health ||
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Bob McDonald's blog
Get some sleep, and get your brain washed
Radio -Quirks & Quarks |
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Marketplace
Cut dairy from your diet? You may be deficient in vitamin D, calcium
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Katie Pedersen, Chelsea Gomez, Asha Tomlinson
Health ||
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Why you shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood
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Emily Chung
Technology & Science ||
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Why doctors need to walk a 'fine line' when talking to parents about alternative therapies for autism
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Vik Adhopia
Health |
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Marketplace
Coconut oil is marketed as healthy, but it has more saturated fat than butter or lard
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Katie Pedersen, Chelsea Gomez, Asha Tomlinson
Health ||
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From victims to advocates: People with developmental disabilities are changing the health-care system
Radio -White Coat - Black Art |