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Mad Cow Disease
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 1, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
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Canadian Brain Research
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on January 22, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
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CANDU Reactor Deal Controversy
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 9, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
Call it the Great Mall of China. Two years ago, Prime Minister Jean CHRÉTIEN led nine premiers and more than 400 business people on a mission to vastly expand trade with the world's most populous market.
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Olivieri Medical Dispute Settled
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on February 8, 1999. Partner content is not updated.
On all sides, the relief was obvious. Last week, the poisonous, 2 ½-year feud that pitted internationally acclaimed blood researcher Dr. Nancy Olivieri against the prestige and power of Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children ended in a face-saving compromise.
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Recognized
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 4, 1998. Partner content is not updated.
Sharon Baillie once loved to read. Not any more. By the time she gets to page 3 of a book, she has generally forgotten what she read on page 1. She used to enjoy 25-km hikes on weekends. Now, she can barely manage a 20-minute walk with her golden retrievers, Buddy and Dusty.
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Cigarette Packaging
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on January 31, 2000. Partner content is not updated.
Perhaps, but if Rock gets his way cigarette packaging is about to go from colourful and cool to downright disturbing.
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Our Dying Seas
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 5, 1998. Partner content is not updated.
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Bottled Water Debate
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on June 12, 2000. Partner content is not updated.
On a remote hillside about 50 km northeast of Walkerton, Ont., springwater flows to the surface to form a clear pool. The area, surrounded by trees and about 1.5 km from the nearest farm, is fenced. Every month, Echo Springs Water Co. Ltd. employees pump about 4.
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Canadarm2's Broken Wrist
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 27, 2002. Partner content is not updated.
It was a bad day at the aerospace office. Around 9 a.m. on March 5, NASA called Richard Rembala, a lead engineer for CANADARM2. There was a problem.
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Eating Right
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 27, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
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New Treatment for Diabetes
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on June 10, 2002. Partner content is not updated.
At the age of 14, Robert Teskey was diagnosed with type 1 DIABETES (better known as juvenile diabetes), a condition which normally comes with an automatic life sentence of insulin therapy.
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Medicare Threatened by Funding Cuts
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 2, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
Like hundreds of other hospitals across the country, The Pas Health Complex - a 60-bed facility attached to a 62-bed nursing home - has had its budget slashed and its staff reduced. It is operating on 20 per cent less money, or $1.4 million, than it did three years ago.
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High-Tech Artificial Limbs
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 13, 1995. Partner content is not updated.
Adele Fifield was just 13 years old when a doctor told her that she had cancer in her knee - and that surgeons would have to amputate her left leg. "My initial reaction was disbelief," recalls Fifield. "For days, my ears seemed to ring from the shock.
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Artificial Heart Developed
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on January 25, 1999. Partner content is not updated.
Before the end of this year, Ottawa heart surgeon Dr. Wilbert Keon hopes to open the chest of a patient whose heart has reached a state of "terminal failure" and install a shiny plastic-encased object a little larger than a mans fist.
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder Can Lead to Self-Mutilation
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 19, 2005. Partner content is not updated.
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Doctor Averts Euthanasia Trial
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 9, 1998. Partner content is not updated.
For someone facing the prospect of being sent to trial on a charge of murder, Nancy Morrison appeared remarkably calm. As she stood to one side of a packed courtroom in Halifax last Friday morning, the 42-year-old respirologist spoke amiably with one of her defence lawyers.
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Space Travel Challenges
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 14, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
For mankind, the adventure began at 9:07 a.m. Moscow time on April 12, 1961. A Soviet air force major named Yuri Gagarin blasted into the Siberian sky aboard a five-ton spacecraft and the world marvelled at the astounding news that he had landed safely after circling the Earth in just 108 minutes.
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Genetically Modified Food Debate
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 18, 1999. Partner content is not updated.
In keeping with the message, the medium was suitably high-tech: a transatlantic encounter conducted live by television satellite. Up on the giant screen in the London conference hall, Robert Shapiro, chief executive officer of the Monsanto Co.
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Plane Crash in Fredericton
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 29, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
Like thousands of other Canadians last week, Krista Kitchen was headed home for the holidays. Flying into Fredericton from Toronto aboard Air Canada Flight 646, the 23-year-old University of Western Ontario student was looking forward to Christmas with family and friends.
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Psychedelic Research in 1950s Saskatchewan
In the 1950s, Saskatchewan was home to some of the most important psychedelic research in the world. Saskatchewan-based psychiatrist Humphry Osmond coined the word psychedelic in 1957. In the mental health field, therapies based on guided LSD and mescaline trips offered an alternative to long-stay care in asylums. They gave clinicians a deeper understanding of psychotic disorders and an effective tool for mental health and addictions research. Treating patients with a single dose of psychedelic was seen as an attractive, cost-effective approach. It fit with the goals of a new, publicly funded health-care system aimed at restoring health and autonomy to patients who had long been confined to asylums.
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