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Authorities continue to investigate after a 14-year-old girl was found dead in a wooded area of Armada. April Dawn Millsap’s body was found Thursday in a drainage ditch in the area of Fulton and Depot roads.

For anyone who’s ever wondered whether microbes living within the digestive system live parallel lives to their human hosts, the answer is yes — and we know this because of smartphones.

Health Minister Rona Ambrose wants ideas to improve the way potentially addictive drugs are prescribed. Prescription drugs are now the third-most commonly abused substance among Canadian youth, after alcohol and marijuana. Ambrose says better practices are needed to “address the increasing problem of prescription drug abuse in Canada.”

A painkiller combined with a drug that stops the painkilling. In a what-will-they-come-up-with-next industry like “Big Pharma,” skepticism was sure to follow the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a new pill. On Wednesday, the FDA approved Targiniq ER, a combination of the painkiller oxycodone and naloxone.

Hoverbikes aren’t yet ready for your daily commute, but in pushing to get closer to that point UK-based company Malloy Aeronautics has perhaps made the next-best thing: a drone version. Drone 3 is a functioning drone in its own right, but it’s also a 1/3-sized scale model of MA’s real, human-sized Hoverbike.

An Ottawa doctor whose clinic was at the centre of an infection scare has agreed never to practice medicine again after the College of Physicians and Surgeons found her unprofessional and incompetent. The College held a disciplinary hearing for Dr. Christiane Farazli on Thursday after dozens of patients also came forward to say that she had brutalized them during procedures, …

Surgeons in Mumbai removed 232 teeth from the mouth of Indian teen, Ashik Gavai, and it may just be a new world record. Gavai, 17, went to JJ Hospital in Mumbai on Monday with a swollen right jaw, according to The AFP. Doctors later learned the boy had complex odontoma, a condition in which “the various odontogenic tissues appear in …

The mayor of a community just outside Montreal was killed following a wasp attack over the weekend. Lucie Roussel, the mayor of La Prairie, died Sunday of anaphylactic shock after being stung at least 15 times while on vacation.

A flight of Algeria’s national airline, Air Algerie, has disappeared from radar en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers, Thursday. Contact with flight AH5017 was lost about 50 minutes after take-off from Ouagadougou, the airline said, as quoted by Algeria’s state news agency. The passenger aircraft which had 110 passengers and six crew members on board was last seen at …

It was a long overdue vacation for 68-year-old Yasmine Calehr and she was looking forward to spending two-weeks with her three grandsons in Bali, Indonesia. She lived in Houston, the boys in Amsterdam, making for complicated travel arrangements. Yasmine left Houston, Texas a day ahead of the boys. The plan was to meet them on the popular Indonesian island on …

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has developed the world’s first anti-malaria vaccine, designed for use on children in Africa. If GSK acquires the regulatory approval it is currently seeking, it will mark a big step forward in the fight against the mosquito-borne parasitic disease, which currently kills over 600,000 people a year.