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ATLANTA - Half the nation's overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal res

CHICAGO - New lung cancer screening guidelines from three medical groups recommend annual scans but only for an older group of current or former heavy smokers.

The advice applies only to those aged 5

OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says Gills brand Fresh Diced Red Onions are being recalled because of possible Listeria contamination.

The affected product was sold in 198 gram packages

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TORONTO - The Ontario government is setting up an expert panel to tackle childhood obesity.

The aim is to reduce the obesity rate by 20 per cent over five years.

About one-quarter of Ontario's child

LONDON - In most developed countries, children with autism are usually sent to school where they get special education classes.

WINNIPEG - A man who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba has won his bid to leave the grounds of the mental hospital where he is being kept.

A Criminal Code re

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an ethical quandary: Should the anthrax vaccine and other treatments being stockpiled in case of a bioterror at

TORONTO - The opposition parties are accusing the governing Liberals of trying to sweep the Ornge scandal under the rug.

They say the Liberals are refusing to agree to extra sittings of a legislative

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Health Department has released details of a review of a Halifax psychiatric facility that released a patient who was later charged in a fatal assault.

The department says the