Health

Would I, as a doctor, ever expect to meet a miner? As Mark Twain remarked, “A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar at the top”.  Luckily, I accepted an invitation to do just that and discovered ...

Dr. Gifford-Jones MD — Recently in a column I confessed to buying the penny stock of Eastgate Biotech Corp. After writing about Type 2 diabetes for 50 years, I was interested to see what would happen to the company’s momentous ...

According to a poll (via Angus Reid Institute), 18% of Canadians said they were “not too happy” and only 1 in 6 were satisfied with their level of stress. And with the holiday season almost upon us, with it comes, ...

W. Gifford-Jones MD — How many of us would like to live like a hermit? I doubt that many would decide to give up the comfort and pleasures of civilization. But we pay an increasing price for comfort. Today, it’s ...

Bill Freeman — For decades there has been talk about creating a bike path along Bloor Street, and in August it finally opened to much fanfare in the city. I promised myself that I would go for a ride on ...

Safeguarding the health of your eyes goes beyond having a pair of glasses that fit well. If you want to ensure your eyes are healthy, you need to have regular comprehensive eye exams that check for some of the common ...

W. Gifford-Jones, MD — This week, I mean not to be a financial advisor for penny stocks. For years I’ve followed Warren Buffet’s advice to purchase stock of quality companies. But if Sir Frederick Banting, the Canadian discoverer of insulin, ...

Ted Bruce and David Peters — The life expectancy of Canadians has lengthened significantly in the last century, but we need to spend more on public health initiatives to continue this trend. The Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) recently celebrated the ...

I have a passion for ships so I’ve travelled and seen much of the world this way. But I’d never been to Alaska. So I recently joined a group of cardiologists on an educational cruise to a U.S. State blessed ...

W. Gifford-Jones MD —   Years ago I wrote that “The problems of the world are caused by supposedly intelligent people who are largely fools”. I haven’t changed my mind as I look at the problems surrounding the new law ...