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Health News articles from June 1993
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Health News archives from June 1993
Preventing suicides.
June 1, 1993... Statistics for 1990-91 show a suicide rate in Canada of 13 per 100,000, with four times more men than women completing the act, but more women attempting it. For children under age 14, the suicide rate is very low, rising at age 14-19 to 11-13...
Epilepsy.
June 1, 1993... Anyone who has witnessed someone having an epileptic seizure can understand why the ancients thought that it represented "a visit from the gods" or a "demon within the head." It's high time to replace superstition with science. Once called the...
The circumcision debate.
June 1, 1993... Circumcision is a minor surgical procedure that removes the foreskin hooding the end of the penis, thereby exposing its tip, the glans. The operation is usually done within days of birth, preferably before the age of two months, with or without...
Medical update: post-polio syndrome.
June 1, 1993... Thousands of polio survivors are experiencing the late-effects of their childhood disease, decades after they had poliomyelitis (polio for short). Having believed it was all "behind them," many who had polio during the epidemics of the 1950s...