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Smoking Pot Is As Bad As Smoking Tobacco For Your Lungs

There is a widespread belief that smoking marijuana is not harmful to lungs. However, according to the American Lung Association, smoking pot is as bad as smoking tobacco. In fact, every kind of smoke we inhale contains possible carcinogens, so it’s harmful…
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Household Cleaners Could Cause Childhood Obesity

According to Statistics Canada, a third of Canadian children and teens are either overweight or obese. Behind these issues, there resides the lack of physical activity and overeating. However, a new study published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal concluded that household…
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Expect your Pandemic Flu Shot in the Mail

On Wednesday there has been an announcement that three important advances in the direction of a possible pandemic flu vaccine have been made. This shot might be at some point in the future delivered to people’s doorstep via the mail,…
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The First Canadian Face Transplant Concluded Successfully

A 64-year-old man who was severely disfigured during a hunting accident that occurred in 2011 went through the first Canadian face transplant in May this year, concluded successfully after 30 hours of surgical intervention by the surgeons from Montreal’s Maisonneuve-Rosemont…
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