Health

We are all made up of genes; they determine things like our height, our eye and hair colour and our risk of developing some diseases like certain types of cancer. In Canada, approximately one in every 200 Canadians have a ...

One : Buy a Scale Obesity is a huge killer and it sets the stage for Type 2 diabetes, heart attack and hypertension. Be a smart consumer. Step on the scale each day so there are no surprises about weight ...

Are some cell phone users destined to develop cancer after years of use? Or, is this fear being over played? For years I’ve tried to find an unbiased informative source. Now, a report from the University of California attempts to ...

The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses (CFIB) are deeply disappointed that the Ontario government has decided to implement a public-sector monopoly for cannabis sales in the province. One of the government’s stated goals in cannabis legalization (legal marijuana) is to ...

I recently predicted our planet was doomed due to either nuclear holocaust, viral pandemic or azoospermia (lack of sperm). Biology 101 proves that adding 70 million people a year to our world will result in catastrophic consequences. The Texas flood ...

Do you remember the story about the straw that broke the camel’s back? How the camel’s owner kept loading more and more straw on the animal’s back. Eventually one more straw broke the poor creature’s back. Pushing your luck too ...

Toronto Public Health has received laboratory confirmation that a resident in Toronto has tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV). This is the first human case testing positive for WNV in Toronto for 2017. WNV is mainly transmitted to people ...

It’s been said that “Those who do not remember history are destined to relive it.” Today, the problem is that none of us seem to remember history, so we’re destined to relive it one way or another. So will our ...

Could hydrogen sulfide (H2S), the gas that causes the odour of farts, ever receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine? Dr. Rui Wang, an internationally known Canadian researcher, reports that one day we may have a “fart pill” that fights one ...

Are you becoming as skeptical as I am about public information? Fake political news? Alternative facts about the state of the world’s economy? So, now I ask how honest is medical news? Of course everyone knows that consuming stupid amounts ...