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Health
In conversation: Dr. Sanjay Gupta
CNN chief medical correspondent on his new novel, medical mistakes and the Canadian health care system
Dan Hill tells all
The singer-songwriter’s candid and moving account of prostate cancer, along with a video interview and new song—for your iPad
What you need to know about prostate cancer
Leading prostate cancer specialist, Dr. Nam, who saw Dan Hill through his fight with the disease, offers this primer
Hospital performance is all over the map
Quality of care varies from province to province and hospital to hospital, according to newly released data
Deafness and diminished hearing are rampant in the North
The shortage of audiologists is not helping matters
Quackbuster Joe Schwarcz takes on charlatans
Meet Dr. Joe: chemistry professor, radio host, newspaper columnist for the Montreal Gazette, author of 13 books and tireless tub-thumper against pseudoscience
Say good-bye to hard-to-swallow pills
In the future, we’ll be consuming fast-dissolving, flavoured film strips the size of postage stamps
Sufferers of chronic pain and the government’s war on OxyContin
Our understanding of severe pain is inadequate
A new fertility test is changing women’s lives
Levels of the hormone AMH correspond to to the number of eggs a woman has left in her ovarian reserve