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Speaking more than one language protects the brain against cognitive decline and makes a person better at multi-tasking, researchers said Friday at a major U.S. science conference.
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Women's Health
High-tech games, apps get you moving
You don’t have to look far for fun, smart and effective tech gadgetry to help improve your health. They are available in smartphones, video game players and mp3 players. Even your old bathroom weight scale can now be replaced by cutting-edge wireless technology.
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Women's Health
Common birth control pill not tied to heart attacks
Contrary to earlier signs that women on the Pill have a higher risk of heart disease, a new look at the medical literature found no link between heart attacks and the so-called mini-pills.
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Men's Health
Early balding linked to risk of prostate cancer
A study showing that men who start to go bald at 20 may be more likely to develop prostate cancer in later life suggests they might benefit from early screening or preventative therapy, scientists said on Tuesday.
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Seniors
New mobile can check pulse, send ambulance
As the mobile world booms with complex technological smartphones and tablets, two rival firms are carving up a growing but largely ignored market for the elderly.
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Children
Calories on menus don't affect kids' food choices
Requiring fast-food restaurants in New York City to post calorie counts on menus did little to cut the number of calories children and teens consumed, ...
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Vancouver health authority gives contradictory information to CT scan patient
Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) says it is looking into reports that it sent contradictory information in two letters to a patient about CT scans at Powell...
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Eureka! Vancouver scientists take the headache out of red wine
UBC researchers cut down on toxic bioamines in vino.
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Third review launched into scan results
The B.C. government has uncovered questions about a new batch of medical scans, this time involving a radiologist at St. Joseph's General Hospital in ...
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China targets leather protein in new food concern
China pledged on Friday to halt use of leather protein in food production, saying the potentially harmful substance was being added to some products in...
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Weight Loss
Lose weight after 50
Few people relish the steps needed to drop a few pounds. But losing weight when you are younger may be easier than it is for those 50 and older. That’...
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Ways to have your favourite drink and enjoy it too
Do below-zero temperatures leave you reaching for a warm beverage? Do you choose a coffee, latte, hot chocolate, or other specialty drink with flavoured...
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When getting fit takes an online village
With clients still counting their pennies, trainers have now taken to the cloud on the theory that if you build that interactive website, they will come...
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HIV/AIDS
China aims to bring AIDS spread under control by 2020
China hopes to more or less bring the spread of AIDS under control by 2020, but faces an uphill task do to so due in part to ignorance and poor policy...
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Stigma hampers Afghan fight against AIDS
Shrouded in ignorance and taboo, HIV and AIDS have crept up almost unnoticed to join the long list of misfortunes visited on Afghanistan over the past...
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