Medical officer in Ontario tackles bulging waistlines
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TORONTO - With almost half of adults in Ontario overweight or obese, unhealthy weights are reaching epidemic proportions, Ontario&#39;s chief medical officer of health warned Wednesday.
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(HealthDay News) -- Though it continues to grow in popularity among the severely obese, gastric bypass surgery should not be taken lightly.
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TORONTO - From clipping the umbilical cord and setting broken bones to hospital visits after surgeries, family doctors have traditionally provided Canadians with a wide range of medical services.
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By ANTONELLA ARTUSO, QUEEN&#39;S PARK BUREAU, SUN MEDIACHIEF. Windsor, Ontario, doctor Albert Schumacher believes it&#39;s his ethical and moral responsibility to tell patients they can cross the border for faster tests.
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CALGARY - A supportive spouse or colleague can help stressed workers to bring down their blood pressure, new research suggests. In one study, nearly 250 full-time staff at a large teaching hospital in Toronto
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Obese patients in Calgary, Alberta, are the first in Canada to have a new ambulance on call specially modified to move them in a dignified and safe way while protecting paramedics from injury.
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Over the last decade, the use of prescription drugs has exploded in Canada. Spending on such drugs has doubled and more Canadians are popping pills than ever before in an effort to treat everything from serious
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In patients who take  antipsychotic medication, a supervised exercise program  significantly reduces weight and improves cholesterol levels, a  Canadian research team has found.
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A man who weighed about half a ton when he was admitted to a hospital was recovering Wednesday from obesity surgery.
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Obesity is out of control with more than 300 million overweight adults worldwide, according to specialists at the first international obesity conference in Africa.
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The global obesity epidemic is completely out of control, with more than 300 million overweight adults worldwide, according to specialists at the first international obesity conference in Africa.
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CHICAGO Obese people who have stomach-reducing surgery may be shedding more than just pounds. A new report says the operations may also cure other ills, like diabetes and high-blood pressure.
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counting carbs, watching kilos, and keeping an uneasy eye on the growing list of health problems linked with obesity. But it&#39;s not just the number
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Heart disease and diabetes get all the attention, but expanding waistlines increase the risk for at least nine types of cancer, too. And with the obesity epidemic showing no signs of waning, specialists say they need to better understand how fat cells fuels cancer growth so they might fight back...
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Wendy Turnbull&#39;s relationship with the cardiac care system in Ontario will be a long-term affair. The 48-year-old Thunder Bay woman suffers from Type 1, or juvenile diabetes, and was diagnosed in 1997 with
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A man who weighed about half a ton when he was admitted to a hospital was recovering Wednesday from obesity surgery. Doctors said he was ``doing very well,&#39;&#39; moving around and even cracking jokes.
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TORONTO -- Ontario&#39;s chief medical officer of health will be more independent and assume some ministerial powers under proposed legislation, the provincial health minister said Thursday.