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Vancouver HIV-AIDS meeting seen as step towards goal of ending pandemic by 2030

TORONTO – More than 6,000 international experts on HIV-AIDS will gather in Vancouver this weekend to share the latest scientific …

Big drop in chickenpox cases after Ontario began public vaccine program: study

TORONTO – Ontario’s publicly funded chickenpox vaccination program appears to have dramatically reduced the number of children who get infected …

Beware foraged wild mushrooms as they may be poisonous, doctors say

TORONTO — Doctors are warning people who forage for wild mushrooms to educate themselves about edible species after a woman …

Brain scans of passengers on near disastrous Air Transat flight studied

TORONTO — Brain scans of passengers who believed they were about to die when their plane ran out of fuel …

Cyberbullying linked to risk of depression in kids, teens: research review

TORONTO – About one in four children and adolescents on average report being the targets of cyberbullying, which is linked …

Canadian researchers discover how to turn blood into nerve cells

TORONTO — It could be called a “sensational” discovery: Canadian scientists have figured out how to turn a simple blood …

Trans community becoming more visible, wants beefed up human rights protection

When actress Laverne Cox of TV’s “Orange Is the New Black” became the first transgender person to make the cover …

Going to pot: As attitudes to marijuana mellow, could legalization be next?

TORONTO — Smoke it, toke it, vape it, eat it — marijuana, it seems, is going mainstream. Once widely reviled …

Stem cell transplant eases symptoms of rare ‘stiff person syndrome’: study

TORONTO—Canadian doctors have begun using stem cell transplants to treat “stiff person syndrome,” a rare neurological condition in which a …

New guidelines to help parents, MDs better manage kids’ recovery from concussion

TORONTO — A Canadian-led team of researchers has released a comprehensive set of guidelines and online tools aimed at improving …

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