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SANTA ANA, California Obese diners are free to gorge at McDonald鈥檚. Gambling addicts can spend every last dollar in a casino. Cancer patients are allowed to buy cigarettes.

WASHINGTON - Printing out body parts? Cornell University researchers showed it's possible by creating a replacement ear using a 3-D printer and injections of living cells.

BRAMPTON, Ont. - Loblaw Companies Ltd. is advising the public not to eat certain salsa products because they may contain pieces of plastic.

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is girded for tough negotiations with its doctors, telling physicians it's time for them to do their part after other public servants suffered through wage freezes in recent years.

Dear Dr. Roach: I had vertigo a couple of months ago and underwent the Epley manoeuvre, which cured me. However, I am now experiencing tinnitus, especially in bed. What causes it and is there a cure? G.M.

TORONTO - A drop in core temperature due to exposure to severe cold can slow the metabolism so much that a person can appear to be dead, say doctors, who believe that was likely the case with a newborn girl who had been declared dead on the weekend b

CHICAGO - Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines.

CHICAGO - Robotic surgery is increasingly being used for women's hysterectomies, adding at least $2,000 to the cost without offering much benefit over less high-tech methods, a study found. The technique was used in just 0.

ATLANTA - You may not be a disease detective, but now you can play one at home. The nation's public health agency has released a free app for the iPad called "Solve the Outbreak.

MONTREAL - A new study has detected significantly higher stillbirth rates in aboriginal populations than in non-aboriginal ones in Quebec, especially in the later stages of pregnancy.