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    Sex exhibit is a great teaching tool

    Re: Sex exhibit 'insulting,' heritage minister insists, May 17. Thanks to the Canada Science and Technology Museum for bringing the exhibit Se A Tell-All Exhibition to Ottawa. As a parent of young children, I know how difficult it can be to educate our kids about sex and puberty. More »Sex exhibit is a great teaching tool

    • Truvada is currently available as a treatment for people with HIV in combination with other anti-retroviral drugs

      US health advisers urged regulators to approve Truvada, made by Gilead Sciences, as the first preventive pill against HIV/AIDS instead of just a treatment for infected people.

    • Canadians might give up alcohol or coffee … Vancouver Sun - Wed, 9 May, 2012
      Canadians might give up alcohol or coffee to keep Internet access — but not sex: survey

      Canadians are willing to give up a lot of things to keep their Internet access, but they draw they line at regular sex, bathing or contact with real people, a new survey suggests.

    • Missing Women Inquiry: Three former … Vancouver Sun - Thu, 26 Apr, 2012
      Missing Women Inquiry: Three former VPD officers offer personal apologies

      Three former senior Vancouver police officers concluded their testimony today at the Missing Women inquiry by offering their personal apologies to the families of the victims of serial killer Robert Pickton for not solving the case sooner.

    • Ted Morton taking his defeat in str … Calgary Herald - Wed, 25 Apr, 2012
      Ted Morton taking his defeat in stride

      Ever the professor, Ted Morton lays out the reasons for his electoral loss like he's teaching a political science class.

    • Nunavut's health department is launching a plan to try to lower the territory's STI rates, which are currently 15 times the national average.

      Rates of Chlamydia and gonorrhea in Nunavut continue to be the highest in Canada, at 15 times the national average.

    • Fugitive wanted for sex crimes in Germany … Vancouver Sun - Wed, 25 Apr, 2012
      Fugitive wanted for sex crimes in Germany arrested in North Vancouver

      A man who is wanted in Ger-many for sex crimes against a child that spanned four years was found hiding in the Lower Mainland and ordered deported Tuesday.

    • Dr. Kami Kandola, N.W.T.’s deputy chief public health officer, credits front-line workers, community organizations and education programs for the drop in sexually transmitted infections in the territory.

      The N.W.T. Department of Health and Social Services says the number of gonorrhea cases has declined by 52 per cent since 2008, and chlamydia rates have fallen by six per cent.

    • Sex selection may be at play among Indian, … The Canadian Press - Mon, 16 Apr, 2012
      Dr. Joel Ray is shown in a handout photo. Ray is the lead author of a study that hints that some families of East Indian and South Korean origin in Ontario may be practising sex selection to ensure they have boy babies.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-St.Michael's Hospital

      TORONTO - A new study hints that some families of Indian and South Korean origin in Ontario may be practising sex selection to ensure they have boy babies.

    • Fertility treatment bans in Europe drive … The Canadian Press - Fri, 13 Apr, 2012
      FOR STORY EUROPE FERTILITY BANS -In this 2011 family photo of lesbian couple Giuseppina La Delfa, left, and Raphaelle Hoedts, right, as they celebrate the eighth birthday of their daughter Lisa-Marie, in Naples, Italy. Europe is a patchwork of various laws and restrictions for people who need help having a child so many have to cross national borders to gain the fertility treatments they need. Italian residents La Delfa and Hoedts decided to have a baby but needed to go to Belgium for more than a dozen cycles of IVF fertility treatment before La Delfa gave birth to daughter Lisa-Marie in 2003.(AP Photo)

      LONDON - More than three decades after Britain produced the world's first test-tube baby, Europe is a patchwork of restrictions for people who need help having a child.

    • Fertility treatment bans in Europe drive … The Canadian Press - Fri, 13 Apr, 2012
      In this photo taken Monday, April 9, 2012 provided by Marie Eriksson, Marie Eriksson, left, poses for a photograph with her daughter Sonja in Maglehem, Skane, Sweden. Europe is a patchwork of restrictions for people who need help having a child; Eriksson, a librarian, traveled to a fertility clinic in Denmark after deciding she wanted to have a child on her own. (AP Photo)

      LONDON - More than three decades after Britain produced the world's first test-tube baby, Europe is a patchwork of restrictions for people who need help having a child.

    • Alberta Tories play race card, call … The Canadian Press - Tue, 10 Apr, 2012
      Alberta Conservative leader Alison Redford participates in a local all-candidates forum while making a campaign stop in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Albertans go to the polls on April 23. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

      EDMONTON - Alberta's Progressive Conservatives, looking for an edge in a pitched election battle against the Wildrose party, seem to have declared war on old, white guys.

    • Dental X-rays safe, low risk, says Canadian … The Canadian Press - Tue, 10 Apr, 2012
      A new U.S. study is suggesting patients have a conversation with their dentists about how often routine dental X-rays should be carried out. Dr. Cesar Monarrez checks an X-ray of Ed McKeever, 65, of Mesa, Ariz. during his dentist appointment in Los Algodones, Mexico, Saturday, March 29, 2008.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Arizona Republic, David Wallace ** MARICOPA COUNTY OUT, NO MAGS, NO SALES, MESA TRIBUNE OUT**

      TORONTO - A new study is urging the public to discuss just how often routine dental X-rays should be carried out, but Canada's top dental body says the U.S. research simply underscores a decreasing and well-know risk associated with the procedure.

    • Review: A relentlessly cheery 'Newsies' … The Canadian Press - Thu, 29 Mar, 2012
      In this theater image released by Disney Theatricals, the cast of The Paper Mill Playhouse Production of "Newsies," starring Jeremy Jordan, background center, is shown in New York. (AP Photo/Disney Theatricals, T. Charles Erickson)

      NEW YORK, N.Y. - There are lots of musicals that inspire and stimulate. Only one makes you want to rush outside to buy a newspaper, join a union and hug someone from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

    • In wake of controversy, Clear Channel … The Canadian Press - Tue, 27 Mar, 2012
      FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2010 file photo, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh speaks during a news conference at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu. Advertisers and some radio stations may have abandoned Limbaugh for calling a Georgetown law student a "slut." But the CEO of the radio company that distributes Limbaugh's show, Clear Channel, says he's sticking with the conservative talk show host, calling him the "king" of radio. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

      LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Advertisers and some radio stations may have abandoned Rush Limbaugh for calling a Georgetown law student a "slut." But the CEO of the radio company that distributes Limbaugh's show, Clear Channel, says he's sticking with the conservative talk show host, calling him the "king" of radio.

    • Report: Psychologist called Sandusky … The Canadian Press - Sat, 24 Mar, 2012
      FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2011 file photo, Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach charged with sexually abusing boys, leaves the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. A psychologist who looked into a 1998 allegation against Sandusky told police at the time that his behavior fit the profile of a likely pedophile, NBC News reported Saturday, March 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

      STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - A psychologist who looked into a 1998 allegation against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky told police at the time that his behaviour fit the profile of a likely pedophile, NBC News reported Saturday.

    • P.E.I. doesn't have a sexual health clinic.

      Unlike most provinces, P.E.I. doesn't have any sexual health centres.

    • Brazil's poor get free cosmetic surgery … The Canadian Press - Thu, 22 Mar, 2012
      In this photo taken Wednesday March 14, 2012, Barbara Penha receives a free of charge radio-frequency treatment on her abdomen by Doctor Nelson Rosas, at the Brazilian Society of Aesthetic Medicine clinic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The philosophy behind the clinic and more than 200 similar clinics across Brazil, is that beauty is a right, and that the poor deserve to be ravishing, too. Beauty, the doctors argue, is more than skin deep, and by treating what their patients view as physical flaws they are often also healing their psyches. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

      RIO DE JANEIRO - A machine purrs as it delivers electrical pulses deep into the saggy skin on Barbara Penha's jawline, a high-tech treatment used first to tighten her jowls and then to sculpt her tummy.

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