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Health Minister Ben Bradshaw today underlined the Government’s commitment to investment in family doctor services on a visit to a newly opened GP health centre in Kirkby-in-Ashfield near Nottingham.
Six GP surgeries and 15 GP-led health centres are being procured across the East Midlands as part of the trailblazing work underway to improve access to and [...]

It seems like each year I have more and more mothers in which to wish a ‘Happy Mother’s Day.’ This year, I added a Mother-in-Law to the list. And even though it was technically her day, she doled out the gifts in treating my wife and I and her other son and his wife (and [...]

Health Canada is set to release studies on 15 chemicals, including bisphenol A found in baby bottles, placing them on an action list that could lead to an outright ban.The chemicals, which have to meet high-risk criteria to be included on the list, include bisphenol A (BPA), which studies say causes breast cancer, prostate cancer [...]

Q-My boyfriend of three years lives in a tiny rural village.
I live in the city, but the distance isn’t the problem - his friends are. They’re all incredibly close and connect yet when I’m there, I’m excluded.
And my main worry is Her. She’s his best friend, though they’re total opposites. They’ve known each other all [...]

Her label, Spanx, is one of those brand names that seems to have incrementally seeped into the English language, aided partly by some impressive endorsements. Quite a number of Hollywood bums, and post-baby tummies, and cellulite thighs, have been Spanxed. The weird thing is that the celebrities don’t appear to mind talking about these control-top [...]

Mark Katic usually just sighs when it’s his roommate’s choice on cheap movie night.
Steve Stamkos loves the scary stuff.
“He’ll be all into the movie and I’ll end up staring at the floor for two hours,” the veteran defenceman for the OHL’s Sarnia Sting said. “It’s no fun for me because those aren’t the kinds of [...]

In the little, private zoo known as marriage, it helps to remind yourself that you and your partner are just two bipedal primates trying to get along in intimate co-habitation.
The trick, it turns out, is all in the training.
That’s what Amy Sutherland discovered, and she didn’t even have to learn to crack a whip. [...]

History will record June 2, 2006 as the day when police arrested members of what they claimed was Canada’s first homegrown Islamic terrorist conspiracy. But in a modest middle-class section of Oakville, Rukhsana Gaya – then a department store cosmetics manager – remembers that day as the moment her family’s life was shattered.%26quot;The phone rang [...]

None of Glavine%26#8217;s closest friends on the Mets made the two-hour drive here for Thursday%26#8217;s game, making his reunion with the Mets sort of anticlimactic, but the gang can catch up with one another next weekend. The Mets play the Braves in Atlanta during their six-game season-opening trip, and Glavine is scheduled to pitch [...]

One received permission from her family to follow her fianc%26#233; to Lhasa; another sent home most of her wages to support 13 relatives; several sent text messages in the minutes before they died warning loved ones to stay indoors as violence erupted. In death, though, the women are being treated as martyrs. The Chinese [...]