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				<title><![CDATA[Bell, Queen's create new anti-stigma research initiative]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[On the eve of a day dedicated to airing mental health issues, Bell Canada and Queen's University have announced the creation of a new research initiative aimed at fighting the stigma that keeps Canadians from talking about such illnesses.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:53:06 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[Let's Talk campaign chair turns tragedy into message of hope]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[After losing two brothers to suicide and enduring her own battle with depression, Mary Deacon, Chair of Bell's Mental Health Initiative, has made mental health advocacy a big part of her life's work.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:14:39 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[Healthy minds, healthy profits: A new business imperative]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[Canadian companies are starting to recognize the business value of workplace mental health programs that can help them retain talent and stay productive.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:23:52 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[Treat mentally ill inmates better, Alberta judge says]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[A judge says Alberta Health Services and the RCMP should do a better job of protecting people in custody with mental health problems.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:39:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[Bread tops sources of dietary sodium in U.S.]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[Bread and rolls are the No. 1 source of salt in the American diet, accounting for more than twice as much sodium as snacks like potato chips and pretzels.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:59:38 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[Utah high court to hear posthumous benefits case]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[Utah's Supreme Court is considering whether a sperm donor contract is proof that a man wanted to be a father even after his death.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:51:47 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[White House proposes raise for Alzheimer's research]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration is increasing spending on Alzheimer's research -- planning to surpass half a billion dollars next year -- as part of a quest to find effective treatments for the brain-destroying disease by 2025.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:41:37 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[Official quits breast cancer charity over funding dispute]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[An executive with a major U.S. breast-cancer charity has resigned after a dispute over funding for the country's best-known family planning organization and its providing of abortions, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:48:26 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[5 innovative ways mental health care is more accessible]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[The mental health community is working to make treatment more accessible to Canadians through technology, art and changes in care.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:13:45 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[U.S. college machine dispenses 'morning-after' pill]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[Students at a U.S. university can obtain the &quot;morning-after&quot; emergency contraceptive pill from an unusual source -- a vending machine.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:35:17 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[Top Obama adviser defends divisive birth control rule]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[A political adviser to President Barack Obama said Tuesday the administration didn't intend to &quot;abridge anyone's religious freedom&quot; with its regulation requiring church-affiliated employers to cover birth control for their workers.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:44:51 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[New map pinpoints eastern U.S. Lyme disease risk areas]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:50:37 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[Physical discipline linked to future aggression]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[Parents who tout corporal punishment as a way to discipline children may want to consider sparing the rod, a recent analysis has found.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:23:18 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[C. diff patients overcome 'ick factor' to embrace therapy]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[Fecal transplants, which were first done in the late 1950s, are emerging as a highly successful therapy for many tough-to-cure C. difficile cases. Randomized controlled trials are underway in Europe and at Toronto's University Health Network to prove the point.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:14:08 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[Georgia court strikes down assisted suicide restrictions]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[Georgia's top court on Monday struck down a state law designed to discourage assisted suicides after four members of a group that helped a cancer-stricken man die said the law also violated free speech rights.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:05:33 -0500</pubDate>
			
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				<title><![CDATA[U.S. study highlights kids' exposure to smoke in cars]]></title>
				
        
		
				
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				<description><![CDATA[Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat action aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list.]]></description>
				        		
		
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:56:27 -0500</pubDate>
			
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        <title><![CDATA[Dr. Oz's 'transformation nation' nets 1 million 'losers']]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Television already has &quot;The Biggest Loser.&quot; Dr. Mehmet Oz is looking for the biggest number of losers.]]></description>
		
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:04:06 -0500</pubDate>
			
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        <title><![CDATA[Chile blames wildfires for rats spreading hantavirus]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Chile declared a public health alert Monday over a hantavirus outbreak that has killed three people and infected at least 10 others.]]></description>
		
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:04:10 -0500</pubDate>
			
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        <title><![CDATA[Do people with HIV have to tell their sex partners?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Canada's highest court is set to hear arguments over whether it's a crime for people with HIV to keep their condition from their sexual partners if the risk of transmission is low.]]></description>
		
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:35:02 -0500</pubDate>
			
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        <title><![CDATA[Modern men fighting back with facial hair]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[After 60 years of rules against full facial hair, Disney recently decided to allow its male front line employees to greet vacationers at its theme parks with neatly-groomed beards. Josh Visser explores what this says about modern man at CTVNews.ca.]]></description>
		
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:37:09 -0500</pubDate>
			
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