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New study shows how caffeine might prevent pregnancy

Women trying to conceive should consider quitting coffee cold turkey, according to a study researchers believe explains for the first time why caffeine makes it harder to make babies.

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Health

B.C. targets smokers, overweight people with new health program

Smokers and overweight and sedentary people will be the beneficiaries of a new $68.7-million British Columbia program to prevent chronic disease.

Newborn who suffered coronary thriving with new heart

An Alberta infant who suffered a heart attack immediately after birth is doing well after a heart transplant.

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Women's Health

Study urges three-year gap in cervical cancer test

Healthy women over 30 who test negative for human papillomaviruses (HPV) may be able to safely extend the period between gynecological exams from every year to three years, said a U.S. study Wednesday.

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Breast cancer

Yoga helps breast cancer patients: Study

Study exposes cracks in cosmetics' foundation

Men's Health

Men's finger length linked to risk of knee injury

"Manly" hands might signal an increased risk of suffering a knee injury, if one study is correct.

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Fertility

Cellphone study a wake-up call for prospective dads

Online gambling generating new addicts, researcher says

Seniors

Nations must better adapt to greying world: Report

Nations need to improve on their long-term care strategies to accommodate a growing demand for eldercare services as the world's population of seniors steadily increases, a new Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development report says.

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Mental health

Tai Chi improves mental health in elderly: Study

Alzheimer’s damage may begin at a young age, study finds

Children

How many teens have "Internet addiction?"

One in every 25 teens had "problematic Internet use" in a new study of high school students from Connecticut.

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Child obesity

Doctors urge McDonald's to retire pitchman Ronald

With yams, mosquito nets: Nigeria adapts Sesame Street

WHO reaffirms commitment to AIDS fight

At least two million lives could be saved by 2015 if the World Health Organisation's 193 member-states achieve stated goals in the fight against AIDS, ...

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Relief in a bottle: Medical marijuana use

Lalanya Blue McGraw believes cannabis is slowing her cancer while easing her pain. She's not alone.

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Health Canada expert wonders: what's in the water, Coca-Cola?

A top nutrition expert at Health Canada believes The Coca-Cola Company misleads consumers into thinking its vitaminwater line of drinks constitutes a ...

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Nutrition

Nutrition quiz: Coca-Cola

Let's raise a glass in honor of Coca-Cola's 125th anniversary. Uh, wait, on second thought, nutrition experts have been trying to wean us from the sugary...

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Tap dance syncopates fitness for any age

For fitness outside the box-step of the gym, why not try hoofing it?

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Easy does it, Slugger: Prepare for your warm weather regimen

Spring is a tough time of year for the overzealous. You know who I mean: the keeners who dive into warm-weather sports like they never left them, only...

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Sexual health

Alberta launches $2M campaign to reduce STI rates

After years of delays and failed attempts to bring down the rising rate of syphilis — which killed four of nine babies infected in 2009 — ...

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Vienna's Life Ball takes flight with angels, flying horses

Swarms of angels, flying horses and fantastic birds of paradise converged on Vienna's neo-Gothic City Hall on Saturday for this year's Life Ball.

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Court says widow can use dead husband's sperm

An Australian woman on Monday won a court battle to use her dead husband's sperm to have a baby in a landmark case in New South Wales, where IVF treatment...

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