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Blackwell on Health: Study finds little cancer risk in cell phones
If someone eventually proves that cell phones cause brain cancer, a lot of people will be very worried. After all, virtually every resident of the developed world not still in diapers – and man… more →
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On Casinos And Safe Injection Sites
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wrote 1 month ago: Everyone say it along with me: Casinos good. Safe injection sites bad. Casinos good. They help pay f … more →
Blackwell on Health: Study finds little cancer risk in cell phones
wrote 2 months ago: If someone eventually proves that cell phones cause brain cancer, a lot of people will be very worr … more →
Buying and Selling Eggs, Sperm and Embryo's is a crime here in Canada!!!!
wrote 2 months ago: Finally after 8 years of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act coming into play the police are laying … more →
Mass-withdrawal disaster feared as OxyContin funding pulled
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wrote 3 months ago: Health Canada’s decision to phase out funding of OxyContin for First Nations people is setting … more →
Blackwell on Health: Montreal researchers discover why some prostitutes evade HIV
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wrote 3 months ago: Howard Burditt / Reuters Thanks to a Canadian research team, more evidence is emerging about why som … more →
Article: The Story of a Pregnant Man
wrote 3 months ago: The second of Tom’s Blackwell’s articles about fertility clincs and some of the ethical … more →
Men Having Babies? It's Happening
wrote 3 months ago: The National Post has an interesting article today about “the interplay of social change and m … more →
Blackwell on Health: Does Holland have the key to our health-care future?
wrote 3 months ago: Another think-tank report has urged that Canada look across the Atlantic for lessons on how to fix a … more →
Blackwell on Health: Vioxx suit settled for $37M
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wrote 4 months ago: In an era of growing caution around prescription medication and the claims made for them, the withdr … more →
Blackwell on Health: A window on northern addiction
wrote 4 months ago: Postmedia files Elizabeth Payne of the Ottawa Citizen wrote an intriguing story this week that shoul … more →
Women in Art: Audrey Flack
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wrote 5 months ago: While most artists incorporate the use of photography in their work, many won’t admit it. Ther … more →
Blackwell on Health: A nasal spray to make you less shy?
wrote 5 months ago: Fotolia It’s the kind of finding that makes pharmaceutical executives salivate or, in this cas … more →
Blackwell on Health: Docs have 'saved' us millions, doctor ads say
wrote 6 months ago: One can always tell when it’s time for a province to negotiate a new fee agreement with its do … more →
Blackwell on Health: Treating schizophrenia on horseback
wrote 6 months ago: One doesn’t really expect to see horseback riding and psychiatric illness mentioned in the sam … more →
Blackwell on Health: 'Presenteeism' study finds out who comes to work sick
wrote 6 months ago: In an age when flu is portrayed as a potential killer and it seems the next pandemic is always just … more →
Blackwell on Health: Could Joe Frazier have been saved?
wrote 6 months ago: Joe Frazier might still be alive today if the boxing great had been screened regularly for liver can … more →
Blackwell on Health: 2.4 million cancer deaths preventable yearly in third-world, report says
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wrote 7 months ago: When we think of health risks in the developing world, we think of threats like infectious disease, … more →
Blackwell on Health: Study links autism, diabetes in pregnancy
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wrote 7 months ago: Though progress is being made, scientists still know relatively little about what causes autism, or … more →
Blackwell on Health: Why drugs need scrutiny - after being licensed
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wrote 7 months ago: One of the major drives in drug regulation in recent years is to find ways to increase the study of … more →
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