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TORONTO - A new study says teens who had a schoolmate die by suicide are more likely to consider or attempt taking their own lives than those who haven't lost a peer to suicide.

Researchers say the e

FREDERICTON - A number of doctors in the Maritimes say New Brunswick is discouraging family physicians from practising in the province despite the growing need for care.

The medical residents have wr

TORONTO - Fewer Canadian kids are commuting by walking or biking as a new report reveals a marked decline among young people using active modes of transportation.

Active Healthy Kids Canada released

WASHINGTON - The decade-old law that transformed the battle against HIV and AIDS in developing countries is at a crossroads.

WASHINGTON - New research is challenging medical guidelines that say people with a heart-zapping device in their chests should avoid intense sports like basketball and soccer in favour of golf or bowl

TORONTO - Angela Hartlin's legs are covered with small bloodied sores that overlay myriad scars, ghost-like reminders of similar lesions that have dotted her skin for years.

For more than decade, sh

LONDON - More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the spectre of autism.

OTTAWA - A Canadian has been elected president of the International Council of Nurses.

Judith Shamian, the past president of the Canadian Nurses Association, will serve a four year term.

The CNA say

OTTAWA - Health Canada says three companies are voluntarily recalling all lots of the antipsychotic drug quetiapine.

A Health Canada news release says it's due to potential contamination with the ant

The World Health Organization has issued a blunt assessment of the coronavirus outbreak in Saudi Arabia, acknowledging for the first time that there are concerns the virus may be spreading from person