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Chronic pain sufferers not getting care needed, online survey finds

For chronic pain sufferers, finding comprehensive care through Canada’s medical system to address pain management continues to be a challenge, a new survey suggests.

Life Expectancy

Study says smoking, obesity to blame for divergent life expectancy rates

Life expectancy in the United States has been increasing at a slower rate than in other high-income countries.

To help overcome insomnia, get out of bed: Study

For insomniacs to get better sleep, spending less time in bed may be key -- one part of short-term behavioral therapy that could help older adults beat insomnia, according to a study.

Women's Health

Until vegetables dominate meal plates, weight loss will be slow

Eat your vegetables! We've all heard this before. Yet we're still not getting enough. In an Ipsos Reid poll of some 2,000 Canadians conducted in the summer of 2009, 92 per cent of men and 90 per cent of women were not eating the seven to 10 daily recommended servings of vegetables and fruit.

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Health Club

Make it a habit: Walk, dance, join a boot camp or do yoga for fitness and health

Finding fashion that fits can be the first step on the road to fitness

Women's Health

Radiation may increase long-term heart risks

Women treated for breast cancer with radiation therapy are more likely to die from heart disease 20 years or more down the line than women who don't get radiation, according to a new study.

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Women's Health

Use of antidepressant to treat hot flashes raises concern

Freezing the tick tick tock of the biological clock

Men's Health

Antioxidants may improve male fertility

Couples who struggle to conceive could find baby-making help from antioxidants such as vitamin E and zinc, hints a new review of more than 30 studies.

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Sperm allergy

Semen allergy suspected in rare post-orgasm illness

Circumcision helps stop wart virus, study finds

Seniors

Light therapy shows promise for seniors' depression

The bright-light therapy often used to fight the "winter blues" may also ease major depression symptoms in older adults, a small clinical trial suggests.

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Alzheimer's Test

Scientists closing in on Alzheimer's tests

Fitness takes trauma out of tumbles

Children

Some child hearing loss tied to virus in pregnancy

Hearing loss in a child may have links to a virus that Mom got while she was pregnant, according to a new study.

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Depression

Internet time tied to teen depression symptoms

Time for a change, but make it doable

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Video: da Vinci surgical robot

Grade 6 Students from Strathcona Christian Academy Elementary School visited a endoscopic surgical suite at the Royal Alexandra Hospital. They were able...

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Health trends for 2011

Jazzercise, step aerobics, and the idea that fat makes us fat have all come and gone, though Jane Fonda, now 73, is back with updated DVD versions of ...

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Pulses quicken as Health Club push begins

The good news is that Gerry Haracsi, Julie Isaac and Sue Salsbury are on their way to a fitter, healthier lifestyle and loving it. There is no bad news...

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More than just the baby blues

Julie Isaac waited months to be diagnosed with postpartum depression because she thought new moms who had it wanted to hurt themselves or their babies...

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Exercises target torso’s core muscles

Throughout the challenge we’ll feature exercises demonstrated by each of our challenge finalists, as described by their trainers, that you can try at ...

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HIV/AIDS

S.Africa "whoonga" is new threat to HIV patients

Millions of South Africans with HIV face a new worry -- being robbed of life-prolonging medicine by drug gangs who use it to lace a highly addictive marijuana...

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Send in the clowns to boost IVF success?

Laughter may not be the best medicine, but it might help women who are trying to become pregnant through in-vitro fertilization (IVF), a small study suggests...

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