|
|
ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Health Canada has no plans to build a second addictions treatment centre in the Labrador Innu community of Natuashish despite repeated criticism from Innu leaders.
WASHINGTON (AP) - How to prevent a sticky gunk from clogging up, and probably killing, the brain cells of Alzheimer's patients is the newest focus in the fight against the disease.
TORONTO (CP) - Canadian doctors have devised a way to give some women with breast cancer a kind of "take-out" radiation that takes only a few hours to prepare and appears to have none of the nasty side-effects of traditional radiation therapy.
OTTAWA (CP) - A new Health Canada study suggests that coffee consumption increases the risk of bladder cancer in men, and that the risk increases with the amount consumed.
VANCOUVER (CP) - A Vancouver coroner says the death of a six-year-old Surrey girl last Saturday is not a public health concern.
An autopsy will be performed on Keiran Sekhon's body Wednesday, but early lab tests show she died of a bacterial infection.
FREDERICTON (CP) - The union representing the 5,000 hospital nurses in New Brunswick and the provincial government have reached a tentative contract agreement.
(CP) - When Stacey Mathias-Geer's son starts his first day of junior kindergarten this week, among the child-sized backpacks, spanking new coloured markers, excited giggles and anxious tears, there will be one thing the four-year-old won't share with most of his classmates - a vaccination
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Scientists say they've identified a gene that appears to be linked to both alcoholism and depression, a finding that may one day help identify those at higher risk for the diseases and guide new treatments.
| | |
