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Birth Control in Canada

Birth control means the deliberate prevention of conception and pregnancy. The birth control methods used in Canada range from the simplest (like abstinence) to the most complex (like male or female surgical sterilization). (See also History of Birth Control in Canada.)
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Childbirth in Canada

Childbirth is the beginning of a child’s life and a powerful rite of passage for the mother. Methods vary according to culture and time periods. Before the 19th century, Canadians relied mostly on the help of midwives, as well as prayers and even superstitions, to face the intense pains of contractions. Advances in the field of obstetrics in the 19th and 20th centuries introduced new ways of shortening the length of childbirth and managing its pains. Those developments also resulted in the transition of childbirth from homes to hospitals. Today, the different methods of childbirth can involve the help of physicians, midwives and doulas.
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Blindness and Vision Loss

There are approximately 836,000 visually impaired Canadians, although only a small number of them have been blind from birth.
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Blood Substitute Tested

According to medical lore, the ancient Incas were the first to attempt blood transfusions. And over the centuries doctors around the world have pumped everything from beer to urine into hemorrhaging patients.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on August 24, 1998
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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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Book Review: The Drug Trial

This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 9, 2005. Partner content is not updated.WARS, EVEN THOSE FOUGHT on principle, are invariably sordid affairs. And so appears to have been the case with the all-out battle waged between Nancy Olivieri, a respected physician and scientist at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, and Apotex, one of Canada's biggest pharmaceutical companies.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on May 9, 2005
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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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Botulism

Human botulism can occur primarily as food-borne botulism, infant botulism or wound botulism.
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), frequently called "mad cow disease," is a progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system of cattle.
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Breast Cancer Research in Canada

Current breast cancer incidence and mortality rates are available through the Canadian Cancer Society, which annually updates these and other statistics.
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BSE-Infected Cow Found in Alberta

DANNY ROSEHILL remembers well the Tuesday morning in September when he watched the terrorist attacks on New York City while the weekly sale at his cattle auction house in Olds, Alta., continued apace. "The towers were brought down, 3,000 people killed, and yet the sale went on," says Rosehill.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on June 2, 2003
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Canada and the Development of the Polio Vaccine

During the first half of the 20th century, poliomyelitis, a.k.a. polio or “The Crippler,” hit Canada harder than anywhere else. Successive polio epidemics peaked in a national crisis in 1953. By that time, however, scientists at Connaught Medical Research Laboratories of the University of Toronto had made key discoveries that enabled American medical researcher and virologist Jonas Salk to prepare the first polio vaccine. Connaught Labs also solved the problem of producing the vaccine on a large scale. Canada went on to play an important role in the development of the oral polio vaccine and international efforts to eradicate the disease.Click here for definitions of key terms used in this article.
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Canada During COVID-19

Countries, communities, and individuals around the world are grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic. How will historians remember this time in history? Canada During COVID-19: A Living Archive is meant to capture the experiences of everyday Canadians as they live through this challenging time.
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Canada Is in the Vanguard of Stem Cell Research

PETER SAUER FELT his life slipping away. In 1994, doctors diagnosed Sauer, then 59, with Parkinson's disease, a cruel brain disorder that progressively robs sufferers of the ability to move or function normally.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on May 30, 2005
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Canadian Blood Services

Canadian Blood Services is a Canadian nonprofit charitable organization. It serves as Canada’s primary national blood authority (outside Quebec, which has its own provincial service called Héma-Québec). Canadian Blood Services provides blood and plasma, as well as transfusion and stem cell registry services throughout the country. The organization collaborates closely with its Quebec counterpart, sharing blood products, when necessary, as well as regularly sharing insights, information and data. Canadian Blood Services also maintains a national organ transplant registry.
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