Almost a third of kids are overweight, with prevalance higher for boys: study

Signage marks the Statistics Canada offices in Ottawa on July 21, 2010. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says almost a third of Canadian children are either overweight or obese. It says data from a Canadian...

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B.C. health minister announces partial thaw of frozen university drug research

VICTORIA - Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid says she's thawing some of the drug research projects that were frozen after five government employees were fired following an irregularities investigation. MacDiarmid says drug research contracts with...

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B.C. anesthesiologists ask to join private health-care case, citing wait times

VANCOUVER - A group of B.C. anesthesiologists are asking to join a constitutional challenge of the province's ban on private health care. The British Columbia Anesthesiologists' Society has filed an affidavit with the B.C. Supreme Court asking to intervene...

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Oral drug shows promise for relapsing-remitting MS, studies find

TORONTO - Two major patient trials of an experimental drug for the relapsing-remitting form of multiple sclerosis have found the oral medication significantly improves patients' symptoms. The studies, both published in Wednesday's issue of the New...

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Ontario's Pedestrian Death Review quickfacts

TORONTO - Ontario's Office of the Chief Coroner released a review into pedestrian deaths on Wednesday. Some findings: — 67 per cent of fatalities occurred on roads with speed limits above 50 km/h. — Five per cent of deaths occurred at speed limits...

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Cut speed limit to 40 km/h in built-up areas to save pedestrians, report urges

Pedestrians cross a downtown intersection in Toronto on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. The chief coroner's office released a report on pedestrian deaths with recommendations on reducing their numbers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colin Perkel TORONTO...

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Alberta's top court upholds ruling that girl should be removed from life support

EDMONTON - Alberta's top court has upheld a judge's ruling that a two-year-old child allegedly abused by her parents should be taken off life support. The Appeal Court ruled that each parent will be allowed a final 20-minute visit with the girl. ...

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Source of Quebec City legionnaires' disease identified

QUEBEC - Public health authorities say they have identified the source of Quebec City's outbreak of legionnaires' disease: an office building in the provincial capital. They say samples taken from a cooling tower in a building on St-Joseph Street in...

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The rise in West Nile virus cases in Ontario appears to be slowing

This 2006 photo shows a mosquito on a human at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ AP - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - James Gathany TORONTO - New West Nile virus figures for Ontario suggest this...

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Pool of physicians to be created to serve ER shifts in rural Nova Scotia

HALIFAX - A pool of physicians available to fill emergency room shifts in rural Nova Scotia will be created under a program announced today. Health Minister David Wilson says the emergency department coverage program will improve access to ERs in the...

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