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  Boston researchers working on blood test for autism

  Getting a diagnosis for autism is not easy, with many children having to wait to see specially trained doctors and specialists who spend hours observing the child’s behaviour before rendering a verdict. But U.S. doctors are working on an experimental blood test they believe might help detect the disorder – even before symptoms begin.

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  B.C. seniors advocate questions why undiagnosed seniors getting antipsychotics

  quarter of people living in long-term care homes in British Columbia are receiving antipsychotic medication without a supporting diagnosis even though they have lower rates of psychiatric and mood disorders compared with their counterparts elsewhere in Canada, says the province's advocate for seniors.

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  Opioid deaths rising in Canada, new federal data shows

  Newly released statistics on opioid-related deaths in Canada through the first three months of the year suggest such fatalities are on the rise compared to each of the last two years.

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  Girl with metal in eye turned away from Nova Scotia hospital

  A mother in Cape Breton is angry because she was forced to drive for five hours after a piece of metal became lodged in her young daughter’s eye because there was no doctor available on the island to put the girl under for the operation.

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  Vancouver co-op develops tech to help prevent ODs, especially for alone users

  A Vancouver technology co-operative is gaining recognition for developing a mobile app and three other digital monitoring tools aimed at preventing overdoses.

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  Monsanto asks judge to throw out US$289M award in cancer suit

  Agribusiness company Monsanto has asked a San Francisco judge to throw out a jury's US$289 million award to a former school groundskeeper who said the company's Roundup weed killer left him dying of cancer.