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<title><![CDATA[Base breast-screening on reason, not passion]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mammography guidelines should not be determined by anecdote and wishful thinking.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Forget poppies &ndash; vets deserve flu vaccine]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[These aging warriors and their contemporaries are virtually the last in line for the H1N1 vaccine]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Flu-shot impatience: Let's try a dose of reality]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Underlying the Canadian stampede to flu shot clinics is the illogical notion that everyone can be first in line.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Your H1N1 vaccine questions answered]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Globe's public health reporter on the risks and benefits of the vaccine]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A guide to H1N1 for parents]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Globe's public health reporter answers your questions about children and swine flu]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:50 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Here's a radical health care idea: Put the patient first]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A new state-of-the-system report out of Saskatchewan should be mandatory reading for politicians and health officials alike]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reader questions on H1N1 answered]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Globe's public health reporter wades through the confusion surrounding the threat posed by swine flu]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Our two-tiered health system: a rural-urban split]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The well-being of those who live in remote areas is suffering]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 0:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Stop the
conflusion:
Here are the
H1N1 facts]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Public health officials need to get the essential facts about swine flu out there]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 9:03 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Note to MPs: Our kids are more important than your re-election]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fierce lobbying by Big Tobacco is threatening legislation aimed at cracking down on marketing to young people]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 10:25 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[To find a global solution to cancer, we need a global conversation]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It is time for meaningful dialogue to begin ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 0:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Burying the story won't stop suicide]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We should be shining a light on suicide deaths - most of them preventable - to highlight the underlying cause,]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 0:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[We do have to put a price on life]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We need to consider the question of how much a life is worth, particularly in the cancer field]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 0:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[With more than 500 aboriginal women missing, action is overdue]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[How can this not be considered a national priority for police, justice and public-health officials?]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 3 Sep 2009 0:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New Brunswick has betrayed its doctors - and the public]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The draconian manner in which politicians have treated medical professionals offends the laws of natural justice.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 0:00 -0400</pubDate>
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