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ANYONE DRIVING ALONG Highway 401 west to Toronto from Montreal on Oct. 6 would never have known Caroline Donelle had turned her red Honda Civic into a hospital room on [...]

You're cursed now,' the Peruvian guide chided. Nakita Haining had just picked up one of dozens of skulls and bones strewn across ancient burial grounds ' in Peru when the [...]

For doctors such as Elaine Chin, a troubling condition has plagued her patients ever since the recession started: 'layoff survivor syndrome,' as it's known. These individuals are simultaneously lucky and [...]

In the coming year, a team of researchers from Canada and the U.S. will begin a study to determine the best way to treat the worst gut problems, including severe [...]

The online reviews make Mogadishu's Hotel Shamo sound almost pleasant. 'The rooms are large, with air conditionned, wi-fi and electricity 24 h day, [sic]' a Kenyan visitor wrote last December. [...]

On the island of Sardinia, less than 200 km west of mainland Italy, very old people are like celebrities. This is despite the fact that their days are mostly spent [...]

In the future, when medical experts reflect on the most transformative health care development of this decade, the discussion may have nothing to do with vaccines or prescription drugs, but […]

While working as an independent organic food inspector, Mischa Popoff says he felt like 'a police officer without a billy club or handcuffs.' When he found four jugs of herbicide--each […]

GROWING UP IN Thornhill, Ont., David DaCosta learned from a young age two facts about his father, an industrious Portuguese immigrant: he was a sheet metal worker, and he didn't [...]

When Anne Marie Cerato was 30 years old, she went to the doctor to check out a bump on her collarbone. 'I don't think it's anything serious,' the doctor told [...]

With flu season just beginning, Dr. Nicola Mercer is on high alert. As the medical officer of health for Wellingto-Dufferin-Guelph in Ontario, one of her main priorities is to promote [...]

The cost of Quebec's funding of IVF has turned into a political and medical quagmire. How will Ontario avoid the same fate? Within minutes of Ontario's recent announcement that it [...]

When publishers rejected Mary-Ann Kirkby's memoir, she didn't give up--she published it herself. Now the movie studios are calling FOR MOST OF HER ADULT LIFE, MARYAnn Kirkby had a secret: [...]

For Jessica Dunkley, getting into medical school was no ordinary childhood dream. Deaf since the day she was born, Dunkley aspired to become a doctor when, at age 10, her [...]

As the provincial advocate for children and youth in Ontario, part of Irwin Elman's job is to watch out for young people detained in a youth justice facility, which is [...]

On New Year's Eve a couple of years ago, Janice Kaplan gathered in Times Square with her husband and a million strangers. A woman turned to Kaplan, a journalist based [...]

The fast-food industry has finally awakened to what everyone else has known since McDonald's invented the Egg McMuffin: breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Tim Hortons, Burger [...]

The physical effects were agonizing: "Itching. Burning. Basically for six months my vagina was in pain," recalls Heather, a 29-year-old Toronto comedian who battled a strain of the human papilloma [...]

Forget medical school. The new big-money glamour jobs are in the skilled trades. Mike Holmes is a blue-collar millionaire. He wears dusty brown overalls and a diamond stud in his [...]

This week, 22 universities across Canada each received rare pieces of mail from Macleans. Using provincial freedom of information laws, the magazine served them with formal information requests to get [...]

Inside a dim boardroom at Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn, Mich., senior executives are negotiating with unlikely partners: documentary filmmakers who want full access to the company so they can [...]

An alleged Canadian con man whose telephone scams may have cost an untold number of elderly Americans their life savings is under close watch by an unlikely investigator: a Wal-Mart [...]

When Simon Pulsifer was eight years old, he counted the World Book Encyclopedia among his favourite storybooks. He read them diligently, until he got to "P," one of the longest [...]

When Montreal-based Alcan Inc. was in the throes of acquiring one of its main rivals in 2003, employees at the world's second-largest aluminum producer were burning out. "Schedules were completely [...]

Alton Nelius Ronning was born on May 13, 1925, in Fancheng, on the Han River in China. His father, Chester Alvin, had also been born there, to Norwegian Lutheran missionaries, [...]

"GAS! GAS! GAS!" Sgt. Robert Peyton's urgent call to arms triggers a series of frantic, life-saving moves among a group of civilians nearby: gas masks on within nine seconds, bodysuits [...]

In early March, Research In Motion Ltd. shelled out US$612.5 million to Virginia-based NTP Inc. to settle a patent infringement lawsuit that had dragged on for four years, and in [...]

Before Brigid Schulte began writing her book, Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One has the Time, she was living it. The married mother of two and staff writer [...]

Peppers are popping, Sriracha is surging. Welcome to the hottest trend in food. Last October, more than 80 competitors gathered inside the food court at Toronto's Eaton Centre for the [...]

What seems like science fiction is now becoming reality Ouch, be gone Doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto have identified two proteins that could form the basis of a [...]

THE SWEETNESS OF A SIMPLE LIFE Diana Beresford-Kroeger In her latest book, Beresford-Kroeger takes readers into the rustic home she built with her husband on 65 hectares of land near [...]

Epidemics of polio saw thousands fall ill and many die. Now, the contagious virus may soon be eradicated. POLIOMYELITIS WAS FIRST described in 1789 as 'debility of the lower extremities' [...]

Fatty liver disease was once seen mostly in heavy drinkers. Now, at least a third of adults in Canada have it. When Leigh Fischer was 24, he was like a [...]

When people think lung cancer, they think 'smoker.' The disease is inextricably linked with Big Tobacco and the bad habit so many people have struggled to kick. It's become a [...]

LOTS OF CANDLES, PLENTY OF CAKE Anna Quindlen In her memoir, the American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner contemplates her life through a variety of lenses including motherhood, marriage and [...]

A WOMAN'S BIOLOGICAL clock is actually more like an hourglass that's turned over when she's born. Each grain of sand is one egg, and eventually they all run out. Rina [...]

IF ALL YOU ever heard about concussions was what turned up in the sports news or highlight reels, you'd be justified in thinking that they mostly only happen to elite [...]

PRINCE WILLIAM HAD his back turned to Catherine Middleton as she walked with her father down the aisle at Westminster Abbey. It was an old-fashioned, austere moment: the demure, veiled [...]

PATTI RENIHAN and her best friends have always watched the British royal weddings together: when Prince Charles married Diana Spencer in 1981, and when Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson in [...]

AROUND THIS TIME every winter, Canadians desperate for sun flock to warm destinations where drinks are served with umbrella swizzle sticks, and flip-flops and swimsuits are the prevailing fashion. Getting [...]

GOOD SAMARITANS NOVA SCOTIA LOTTERY WINNERS ONE SUNDAY morning in mid-July, while tucked inside their 147-year-old white farmhouse in Lower Truro, N.S., Allen Large asked his wife, Violet, 'Did you [...]

Under enemy fire The Governor General presented one Canadian soldier this year with a Star of Military Valour, the second-highest award honouring heroic actions in the battlefield. Master Cpl. Jeremy [...]

BOOMERS DEVELOPED their 'forever young' mentality partly as an aversion to how their parents aged, says social demographer Andrew V. Wister: 'They saw the grey hair, the wrinkles. They got [...]

THE ROMANTIC COMEDY It's Complicated could double as a case study of what it means to be a baby boomer today. Jane, a divorced businesswoman played by Meryl Streep, is [...]

SCANDAL BUFFS MAY recall that when a UN peacekeeping mission got under way in Cambodia in the early 1990s, the number of brothels suddenly spiked. The new patrons, it turned [...]

ON THE DAY that Ronan was born, Paul and Rob, who have been married for 11 years, were both in the delivery room. 'It was like a live one-hour National [...]

SOME OF THE MOST significant events in recent decades--the election of George W. Bush as president, for example, or the assassination of JFK--would never have happened had it not been [...]

ON DEC. 9, 2001, the day Dr. John Connelly and his wife, Gloria, learned their son had died, they were immediately suspicious about what had happened. Police told the Ottawa [...]