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Carla Ciccone was told rest would heal her head injury. Instead, her symptoms — headaches, dizziness and suicidal thoughts — got worse.

In case you needed further enticement, you now owe it to your body to have more sex. We asked Vancouver-based sexpert Teesha Morgan to explain some of the health-related highlights of getting busy.

Criminal charges are laid against Jian Ghomeshi, the future of epilepsy, and a prehistoric giant gets a new lease on life.

You won't find them in a pharmacy, but these eight strategies could help you beat depression

Common health conditions like chronic inflammation, low serotonin or high cortisol levels can make it tough to shed pounds.

My sister wrote: “Don’t feel sad, I’m not worth it.” She was so wrong. Depression lies. I have to tell the truth.

Depression during pregnancy affects one in 10 women. How should it be treated?

For two decades, Stephanie Reidy was too ashamed to ask for help. It wasn’t until she came out of the mental health closet that she began to heal. Now, she is devoted to helping to break the stigma around mental illness.

Fix your funk by walking into a more positive state of mind

Though there'll be no more daily commune with the queen of talk once her show goes off the air at the end of this season, but you can bet we'll still be getting a healthy dose of Oprah in our lives, and she promises it will be "bitch"-free. Oprah's new network – aptly named the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) – will hit the airwaves this coming January 1. The queen herself took to the stage at Maria Shriver's Women's Conference in California and announced that her cable network will be "fun and entertaining without tearing people down and calling them bitches. Imagine that. Imagine." We are imagining it Oprah, and we can hardly wait.

Eighties pop icon Rick Springfield’s just released memoir Late, Late at Night is a revealing and honest telling of his struggles with depression and fidelity, the enduring popularity of "Jessie’s Girl", and the wondrous spirituality he finds in dogs.

Drinking diet soda every day can increase your risk of developing type-2 diabetes to 67 percent.

When 16-year-old Vinzenz Priessnitz was injured after a fall from his horse, he used a cold compress to heal his wounded chest. Inspired by a doe he’d seen mending an injury in a cold stream, the successful technique drew praise, and hydrotherapy was born.

Robin Williams' suicide is a tragic reminder that depression affects us all. Psychiatrist Valerie Taylor tells us what to watch out for and what to do when it becomes more than "just stress."