Articles in Health


April 2010

The Human Egg Trade

How Canada’s fertility laws are failing donors, doctors, and parents


March 2010

Real Magic

At a special weight loss program for men, the author discovers that the only way to stop overeating is to start believing


November 2009

Global Impositioning Systems

Is GPS technology actually harming our sense of direction?


January 2009

Getting It, Together

A path to mental health recovery in Toronto

Do You Know What You’re Eating?

Canadians want labels on GM foods. But would we understand them?


December 2008

Selective Testing

Does Big Pharma stand to gain the most from new genetic tests for drug therapy?


September 2008

Cellphone Games

Does radio frequency radiation pose a cancer risk? Researchers in the largest study to date won’t say


April 2008

Unsafe Practices

Can the Masai reconcile tradition with the realities of HIV?


December 2007

Rat Trap

Why Canada’s drug policy won’t check addiction


April 2007

Forgotten, But Not Gone WalrusPrime Article

Can the Conservatives’ new plan solve the long-neglected problem of chemical pollution?

MARCH 2010
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