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Building mental health wellness in our children

Dr. Chris Wilkes is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who works mostly in emergency care at the Alberta Children’s Hospital.

Mental illness costs the Canadian economy an estimated $51 billion annually in terms of health care and lost productivity, according to 2003 figures from Statistics Canada. It's the No. 1 cause of disability in Canada, with 500,000 Canadians absent from work every day due to psychiatric problems.

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U.S. state bans use of tanning beds by minors

Minors in the state of California will no longer be allowed to use tanning beds after the governor signed a bill prohibiting anyone under the age of 18 from using ultraviolet tanning devices.

Healthy men don't need prostate screening: U.S. panel

A U.S. government panel has found that routine screening for prostate cancer does not help save the lives of healthy men and often triggers the need for more tests and treatments, U.S. media said Friday.

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Advances from genome research still 'many years' away: experts

Seniors share living space for financial and emotional reasons

Blood pressure medication may help lower cancer risk

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'DES daughters' prone to cancer, fertility woes

Women whose mothers took a synthetic estrogen called DES before it was discontinued in 1971 have been found to suffer from a variety of fertility problems and cancers, according to a major new study.

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Breast cancer

Ottawa women with breast cancer take on marketing machine

Raising a stink about pink: Breast cancer victims fed up with overuse of iconic ribbon

Men's Health

Groups defend need for prostate screening

Reports that an influential group of advisers plans to recommend against routine screening of prostate cancer has drawn criticism from health groups worried the move will increase cancer deaths in men.

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Yoga

For men, yoga is a bit of a stretch

Higher testosterone may equal lower heart risks

Seniors

Strokes and Alzheimer's can team up, says Canadian researcher

For decades, doctors have diagnosed some patients with stroke and others with Alzheimer's disease, even though the vast majority of seniors suffer from a combination of each.

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Dementia

Laughter good medicine for dementia patients: Study

Canadian life expectancy nears 81, but North lags behind

Children

Workplace pollutants tied to kids' asthma risk

A mother's exposure to airborne pollutants may increase the likelihood that her unborn child will later develop asthma, a new study suggests.

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Mental health

Huge gaps in mental health care for Canada's kids

No need to panic over cellphone use by kids, expert says

National food inspection agency warns about soup, expands kimchi recall

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning people with milk allergies not to consume Primo brand Hearty Chicken Soup in 525-millilitre cans.

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Obesity: America lightens up, but just a little

The percentage of Americans who are overweight or obese fell slightly in the third quarter of this year, but they still make up a majority of the population...

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Mental health problems can start in childhood and last lifetime

Increasingly, mental health disorders are seen as resulting from a complex interplay of genetic, biological, personality and environmental factors that...

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Training your core can be a ball

Although many people train their core as a way to achieve a great looking mid-section, it's also important to remember that the best reason for conditioning...

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Nutrition quiz: Caloric good news

So often we've dwelled on the negative, tut-tutting about high-calorie foods dripping with fat and laden with nitrates. Today, we present only good caloric...

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Losing weight by minding the 'danger zone'

How's this for some great news? By making one, tiny, almost painless change, you can lose 10 to 20 pounds in a year.

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AIDS

Female hormonal contraception linked to higher HIV risk

Women who use hormonal birth control are roughly twice as likely to become infected with HIV or pass on the AIDS virus to their partner, according to ...

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More youngsters having unsafe sex: Global study

Young people across the globe are having more unprotected sex and know less about effective contraception options, a multinational survey revealed on ...

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U.S. fertility specialist says hysteria over egg donation unfounded

More regulations are needed to protect women who donate eggs to medical clinics but the building hysteria over the health dangers these women may face...

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