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Our latest stories on health, medicine, parenting, aging, pharmacology, new developments in medical technology, and the Canadian health care system
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The Healing
Quebec Cree revive traditional medicine to cure a modern disease
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Brainwashed
Rethinking man’s genetic makeup
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Confidence Game
Is Asperger’s syndrome being used as a false front?
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Ghetto Affect
Bringing psychotherapy to the down and out
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Doctor Evil
Teaching disruptive physicians collegiality
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Getting It, Together
A path to mental health recovery in Toronto
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Do You Know What You’re Eating?
Canadians want labels on GM foods. But would we understand them?
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Selective Testing
Does Big Pharma stand to gain the most from new genetic tests for drug therapy?
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Cellphone Games
Does radio frequency radiation pose a cancer risk? Researchers in the largest study to date won’t say
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