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<title><![CDATA[CNN's Gupta paged as next U.S. surgeon general]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. president-elect Barack Obama has asked neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, to serve as the country's surgeon general, CNN reported Tuesday.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/6/2009 10:12:30 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Some Alberta firms will use health premium savings to benefit workers]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Jan. 1 marked the end of health-care premiums in Alberta, and some employers are planning to pass on the savings to their workers.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/6/2009 6:11:18 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Life-saving benefits of implantable defibrillators extend to elderly: study]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Implantable defibrillators may help save the lives of patients with heart damage, including those in their 70s, say researchers who tested the devices in elderly patients.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/6/2009 5:37:04 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Hormone may help men recognize familiar faces]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A hormone normally released during childbirth and linked to sexual pleasure and bonding also seems to help men recognize faces, say researchers.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/6/2009 5:23:29 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fewer mental health diagnoses from Chinese-speaking doctors: study]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Chinese immigrants in British Columbia were less likely to access mental health care as non-Chinese speaking patients, according to researchers who say the findings have important implications for Chinese immigrants across North America.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/6/2009 4:24:51 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[High alcohol levels in impaired drivers worry addiction experts]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Addictions Foundation of Manitoba is concerned about the high levels of alcohol in people caught driving under the influence.

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<pubDate>1/6/2009 3:22:10 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Some Montreal doctors treat patients without washing hands: audit]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Doctors and nurses at some Montreal hospitals rarely wash their hands in between visiting patients, according to an internal audit.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/6/2009 2:50:17 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['3rd-hand smoke' poses risk to infants, doctors say]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Crawling infants can be exposed to toxic chemicals that linger on smokers, their cars and furniture, pediatricians warn.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/6/2009 1:52:27 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Detox product claims are 'legalized lying,' scientists warn consumers]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Some detoxification products touted as a means of cleansing toxins from the body are largely a waste of money, according to British researchers who say the best remedies remain keeping a balanced diet and ensuring a good night's sleep.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/6/2009 11:39:35 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[3-D model sheds light on SARS-like virus ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Scientists have made a three-dimensional model of a virus similar to the one that causes SARS, which killed 800 people around the world, including 44 in Toronto, about six years ago.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/6/2009 11:11:41 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Talk of sex on teens' MySpace profiles drops after warning: study]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Teenagers often mention risky behaviours on social networking websites but a single warning email from a doctor may decrease those references, say U.S. doctors who used MySpace to conduct their research.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/5/2009 6:20:56 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Change in FDA's ethical guidelines for clinical trials troubling: Lancet]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The Lancet medical journal is reporting that the United States Food and Drug Administration is abandoning the Declaration of Helsinki as an ethical foundation for international clinical trials.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/5/2009 2:43:03 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[N.B. nurses avoid strike with tentative deal]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The New Brunswick government and the province's 5,500 nurses have reached a tentative deal, avoiding a possible provincewide strike.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/5/2009 2:35:15 PM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Canadian researchers discover how to ID 'bad' from normal stem cells]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Doctors have long struggled to differentiate cancerous stem cells from healthy ones, but Canadian researchers now say they know how to tell the two apart to hopefully one day better identify how to kill only the dangerous ones.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/5/2009 10:25:48 AM</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Smokers with family history of aneurysm are at 'extremely high risk']]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The odds of suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm go up sharply among people who smoke and have a family history of aneurysms, compared with all other people, a new study suggests.]]></description>
<pubDate>1/2/2009 4:25:22 PM</pubDate>
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