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Our Dying Seas
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 5, 1998. Partner content is not updated.
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Bottled Water Debate
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on June 12, 2000. Partner content is not updated.
On a remote hillside about 50 km northeast of Walkerton, Ont., springwater flows to the surface to form a clear pool. The area, surrounded by trees and about 1.5 km from the nearest farm, is fenced. Every month, Echo Springs Water Co. Ltd. employees pump about 4.
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Canadarm2's Broken Wrist
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 27, 2002. Partner content is not updated.
It was a bad day at the aerospace office. Around 9 a.m. on March 5, NASA called Richard Rembala, a lead engineer for CANADARM2. There was a problem.
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Eating Right
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 27, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
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New Treatment for Diabetes
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on June 10, 2002. Partner content is not updated.
At the age of 14, Robert Teskey was diagnosed with type 1 DIABETES (better known as juvenile diabetes), a condition which normally comes with an automatic life sentence of insulin therapy.
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Medicare Threatened by Funding Cuts
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 2, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
Like hundreds of other hospitals across the country, The Pas Health Complex - a 60-bed facility attached to a 62-bed nursing home - has had its budget slashed and its staff reduced. It is operating on 20 per cent less money, or $1.4 million, than it did three years ago.
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High-Tech Artificial Limbs
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 13, 1995. Partner content is not updated.
Adele Fifield was just 13 years old when a doctor told her that she had cancer in her knee - and that surgeons would have to amputate her left leg. "My initial reaction was disbelief," recalls Fifield. "For days, my ears seemed to ring from the shock.
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Artificial Heart Developed
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on January 25, 1999. Partner content is not updated.
Before the end of this year, Ottawa heart surgeon Dr. Wilbert Keon hopes to open the chest of a patient whose heart has reached a state of "terminal failure" and install a shiny plastic-encased object a little larger than a mans fist.
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Body Dysmorphic Disorder Can Lead to Self-Mutilation
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 19, 2005. Partner content is not updated.
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Doctor Averts Euthanasia Trial
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 9, 1998. Partner content is not updated.
For someone facing the prospect of being sent to trial on a charge of murder, Nancy Morrison appeared remarkably calm. As she stood to one side of a packed courtroom in Halifax last Friday morning, the 42-year-old respirologist spoke amiably with one of her defence lawyers.
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Space Travel Challenges
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 14, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
For mankind, the adventure began at 9:07 a.m. Moscow time on April 12, 1961. A Soviet air force major named Yuri Gagarin blasted into the Siberian sky aboard a five-ton spacecraft and the world marvelled at the astounding news that he had landed safely after circling the Earth in just 108 minutes.
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Genetically Modified Food Debate
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 18, 1999. Partner content is not updated.
In keeping with the message, the medium was suitably high-tech: a transatlantic encounter conducted live by television satellite. Up on the giant screen in the London conference hall, Robert Shapiro, chief executive officer of the Monsanto Co.
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Plane Crash in Fredericton
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 29, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
Like thousands of other Canadians last week, Krista Kitchen was headed home for the holidays. Flying into Fredericton from Toronto aboard Air Canada Flight 646, the 23-year-old University of Western Ontario student was looking forward to Christmas with family and friends.
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Psychedelic Research in 1950s Saskatchewan
In the 1950s, Saskatchewan was home to some of the most important psychedelic research in the world. Saskatchewan-based psychiatrist Humphry Osmond coined the word psychedelic in 1957. In the mental health field, therapies based on guided LSD and mescaline trips offered an alternative to long-stay care in asylums. They gave clinicians a deeper understanding of psychotic disorders and an effective tool for mental health and addictions research. Treating patients with a single dose of psychedelic was seen as an attractive, cost-effective approach. It fit with the goals of a new, publicly funded health-care system aimed at restoring health and autonomy to patients who had long been confined to asylums.
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SARS Epidemic Reaches Canada
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 31, 2003. Partner content is not updated.
"SEVERE acute respiratory syndrome" hardly rolls off the tongue with ease, but it may yet ingrain itself into the popular lexicon - not necessarily for its virulence, but for the lessons it offers.
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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 15, 2002. Partner content is not updated.
Ashley Roll's mother is reluctant to have her come to the phone. She's worried that answering questions will take too much out of the 19-year-old, but Ashley says she's feeling up to it. Because of chronic fatigue syndrome, Roll is almost a prisoner of her home in Burnaby, B.C.
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New Dialysis Treatment
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 15, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
Like thousands of other victims of kidney failure, David Brooks knows what a mixed blessing dialysis can be.
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CANDU Flawed
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on August 25, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
In the belly of the nuclear beast, the massive domes of the reactors rise ominously to a height of more than 45 m, their radioactive interiors visible only through the thick windows of airlocks.
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Doctor Charged in Patient's Death
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 19, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
Late last September, Paul Millss family was deeply distressed over his battle with throat cancer in a Moncton, N.B., hospital. In the hope that more advanced treatment might help, they transferred him to the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax.
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Ontario Hydro to be Privatized
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on February 12, 1996. Partner content is not updated.