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• Legionnaire's hid in compost: MDs

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 4:52pm CDT

  A gardener contracted a rare case of legionnaire's disease through a cut in his hand while handling compost, British doctors report.

• B.C. sues balloon-crash pilot for medical costs

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 4:22pm CDT

  The B.C. government is using a new piece of legislation that allows it to recover medical expenses to sue the pilot and others involved in a fiery balloon crash that killed two people and injured several others.

• McDonald's customers warned of hep A case

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 3:34pm CDT

  A case of hepatitis A has been confirmed in a food handler at a McDonald's restaurant in Lethbridge, Alta.

• Close ties drive online health searches: study

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:57pm CDT

  People looking to adopt new health practices are more likely to be influenced by close connections, including people they know well, than by social networks such as Facebook, research shows.

• Baby carrot campaign pitches veggies as cool

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:55pm CDT

  Baby carrot farmers are launching a campaign that pitches the little, orange, crunchy snacks as daring, fun and naughty - just like junk food.

• Sugar won't quell infants' pain: study

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:35pm CDT

  Giving sugar to infants to ease their pain after a blood test may change their facial expressions but not necessarily the pain signals in the brain or spinal cord, a new British study suggests.

• Kidney transplants to resume in Sask.

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:33pm CDT

  It's been more than a year, but kidney transplants will again be done in Saskatchewan, the provincial government says.

• AUDIO: Retired chimps may face more experiments

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 12:04pm CDT

  A group of chimpanzees in New Mexico, some of them in their 50s, may be taken out of retirement to be used as research subjects.

• Bone drugs may raise throat cancer risk: study

  Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 9:29am CDT

  People who take bone-strengthening drugs for several years may have a slightly higher risk of esophageal cancer, a new study suggests.

• Hair shows chronic stress link to heart attacks

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 11:05pm CDT

  Chronic stress plays an important role in heart attacks, according to an Israeli-Canadian study of stress hormone levels in hair.

• OxyContin worries misplaced: pain experts

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 5:12pm CDT

  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

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 3:27pm CDT

  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

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 1:58pm CDT

  No link has been found between Pampers diapers with Dry Max liners and diaper rash, Canadian and U.S. officials say.

• Kitchen survey shows health risks

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 1:53pm CDT

  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.

• Marijuana gateway risk overblown: study

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 12:21pm CDT

  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.

• West Nile virus kills 13 in Greece

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 11:49am CDT

  West Nile virus has killed 13 people in Greece, health authorities say.

• JAMA editor to leave

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 11:44am CDT

  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.

• E. coli leads to beef recall in Toronto

  Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 11:08am CDT

  The Canadian Food Inspection agency is warning Toronto-area consumers about a recall of beef from the Kabul Farms retail store in North York.

• Dementia risk double in PTSD veterans: study

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 11:16pm CDT

  Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder may have a higher risk of dementia than those without the stress disorder, a U.S. study suggests.

• TB test could revolutionize care: WHO

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 3:41pm CDT

  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.

• Leaving N.L. for pregnancy care an ordeal: patient

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 2:14pm CDT

  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

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 1:54pm CDT

  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.

• Sleepy teens eat more fat: study

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 1:24pm CDT

  Teens who sleep less than eight hours on weeknights tend to eat more fatty foods than those who doze longer, researchers have found.

• Organic strawberries tops in taste, nutrition

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 12:45pm CDT

  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.

• Money for MS trials still on: Sask.

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 12:14pm CDT

  Despite new concerns about so-called liberation therapy for multiple sclerosis, the Saskatchewan government still plans to pay for clinical trials if it gets a proposal from researchers, Health Minister Don McMorris says.

• Health minister rejects MS therapy trial

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 11:33am CDT

  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.

• MS therapy trial has N.L. minister's support

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 10:46am CDT

  Newfoundland and Labrador's health minister wants to fund trials for a treatment for multiple sclerosis patients, despite a rejection by experts.

• White Rock lifts boil water advisory

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 10:13am CDT

  The City of White Rock, B.C., has lifted its 12-day-old boil water advisory, after three successive tests for E. coli bacteria came back clean earlier this week.

• Cough medicine limits weighed in U.S.

  Posted: September 1st, 2010, 8:40am CDT

  Health regulators in the U.S. are weighing restrictions on Robitussin, NyQuil and other cough suppressants to curb cases of abuse that send thousands of people to the hospital each year.

• Smog advisory in effect for Toronto

  Posted: August 31st, 2010, 10:35pm CDT

  Environment Canada has issued a smog and humidex advisory for Toronto as temperatures remain unusually high.