Poorly treated high blood pressure leads to heart disease
Written by By Meg Wagner, CNN Nearly 1 in 5 adults in the United States has high blood pressure, a prevalence rate that’s up from 8% in 1980, according to a report by the…
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Nearly two-thirds of parents in Toronto say they will get their kids vaccinated against HPV, according to survey
Nearly two-thirds of parents in Toronto say they are “certain or somewhat likely” to get their young children vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), according to a survey released Monday by eHealth Ontario. The…
Mariah Carey: Mickey Guyton
The Emmy Award-winning musical journalist turned singer continues her whirlwind year with an album featuring her biggest hit to date, ‘Flying,’ but fans can also expect collaborations with Alessia Cara, Dua Lipa and Tegan…
Dawn Furniss, 84, died on April 3, 2019. She was 83
Dawn Furniss died in April. She was 83. Born in 1926 in Baltimore, Va., to a farming family, she loved reading and gardening, and played the organ and violin. In high school, she was…
Senate repeals vaccine testing requirement
The U.S. Senate on Sunday revived the Obama-era requirement for vaccines made by big pharmaceutical companies. That happened after the court ruled in a case decided by Republican Justice Anthony Kennedy on Friday that…
Police investigate death of man shot in Canadian backyard
Written by Anna Morgan, CNN Toronto police are investigating after a man died a week after being shot in the backyard of a home in Canada’s largest city. Derrion “Leo” Heath was shot in…
More Nordstrom Stores Burglaries, Attempted Robberies: video
Los Angeles police are investigating a burglary, assault and attempted robbery of Nordstrom stores in Encino and Burbank that took place the morning of Nov. 12, according to reports from the Los Angeles Times…
Space experiment mixed fire with food to get sex toy taste
(CNN) — You have to give it to the space explorers. On Wednesday, U.S. astronaut Randy Bresnik and his European Space Agency colleague Alexander Gerst, along with Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui, successfully burned food…
If more parents take a summer break from French immersion, they might win | letters
French immersion isn’t the magic cure to every social ills, but it does reach into under-resourced parts of the city and enrich the lives of kids of all ages. But for families forced to…
A man submits his own DNA to catch two deadly diseases. By doing it, he should learn from the scientists’ mistakes.
On Sept. 28, a letter arrived in the mailbox of Craig Dutcher, the city manager of the City of Toronto, announcing that his wife, Tasha, was sick with leukemia. The news was harsh, but…