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Painful skin condition made Flaherty’s health a public matter

  TORONTO – Former federal finance minister Jim Flaherty didn’t like talking about his health, saying he considered it a …

Flu vaccine production issue may be behind last year’s modest protection: study

TORONTO – The 2012-13 influenza season was a harsh one, and one in which flu vaccine offered disappointingly modest protection …

WHO urging people to limit sugar calories to below 10%, below 5% if possible

Photo: Facebook Page of World Health Organization TORONTO–The World Health Organization is again urging people to lower the amount of …

MERS or similar virus has been spreading in camels for at least a decade: study

It may be new to humans, but it appears that the MERS virus or a close cousin may have been …

Bugs will travel: Public health watches foreign outbreaks because diseases move

TORONTO—A Toronto grandmother came home from Hong Kong with SARS. A Colorado woman visited a Ugandan cave and brought back …

A global threat or so 2013? Experts read the tea leaves on MERS coronavirus

TORONTO—Infectious disease watchers were worried in the late summer of 2013. The largest annual mass gathering in the world, the …

Flu activity taking off across Canada; year shaping up as normal H1N1 year

TORONTO—Flu season has swung into full gear in many parts of the country, sowing illness, absenteeism and in some places …

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