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QUEBEC - The Parti Quebecois minority government, which has been forced to retreat on several key policies since it took office last fall, continued down that rocky path Wednesday as it reversed itself on a decision to cut $63 million in funding for

WASHINGTON - Scientists wondering why some children and not others survived one of China's worst food safety scandals have uncovered a suspect: germs that live in the gut.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am writing with concern about my 50-year-old daughter, who, to me, shows signs of Graves’ disease. She is taking thyroid medication, but I don’t know if she is following up with her primary doctor.

Navigating through the early stages of dating can produce its share of awkward and tension-filled moments, but Erika Ladouceur had an added reason to feel a bit anxious.

WASHINGTON - Fighting the problem of fake drugs will require creating a national drug-tracking system, the Institute of Medicine said Wednesday. The call for putting medications through a chain of custody like U.S.

Dear Dr. Roach: For longer than a month now, I have had blood in my stool. Not just a little, and not just with stool. I am losing blood constantly. My doctor said he’s sure it’s a hemorrhoid, which he checked me for and then told me it wasn’t that.

In a stunning example of when treatment might be worse than the disease, a large review of Medicare records finds that older people with small kidney tumors were much less likely to die over the next five years if doctors monitored them instead of op

TORONTO - Researchers are calling for the removal of a widely used pain medication from worldwide markets due to a high risk of heart attack and other adverse cardiovascular events associated with the drug.

EDMONTON - Alberta's auditor general says taxpayers have been paying for health bureaucrats to take $1,200 short-hop flights, shelling out up to $300 at a time to shuttle patients around in taxis and covering one health employee's costs to buzz about

TORONTO - No one said adolescence would be easy, but a new report from Canada's largest school board is quantifying student stress in the modern classroom.