Health

What a horrible way to start the day!

The first thing I do every morning is read the newspaper. This AM I should have stayed in bed. The headline read, “No amount of alcohol is safe.” The report claimed to be one of the largest studies of alcohol ...

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Health-care system short-changes seniors

EvidenceNetwork.ca Despite having diabetes and arthritis, Verne was a thriving independent 72-year-old who lived at home with his wife when he had a stroke. He had excellent emergency care in the hospital and began his recovery there. But he didn’t ...

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Heart stents don’t always save lives

Every year over 300,000 North Americans have a stent implanted to increase the flow of blood to heart’s muscle. Stents have been inserted for decades because of cardiologists’ concern that, without a stent, a heart attack may occur. Or, a ...

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LCBO raises $ for Jennifer Ashleight Children’s Charity

Starting on August 19th, you can help support the children and families served by the Jennifer Ashleigh Children’s Charity (JACC) by making a donation at any of the more than 660 LCBO stores throughout Ontario. Donation boxes for JACC will be ...

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Toronto’s first West Nile virus case in 2018

Toronto reports first human case of West Nile virus in 2018 Toronto Public Health has received laboratory confirmation that an adult resident in Toronto has tested positive for West Nile virus. This is the first human case testing positive for ...

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Children & grandchildren headed for liver transplants   

Who hasn’t heard of the “Mayflower”, the ship that brought pilgrims to the U.S. in 1620? What is rarely known is that towards the end of that voyage, it was necessary to ration beer, and some pilgrims died as a ...

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Pickering Nuclear’s huge radioactive waste problem

The Pickering Nuclear Station has a deadly secret: The plant is a storehouse for 16 million kilograms of high-level radioactive waste sitting right on the edge of Lake Ontario. The more than 760,000 spent fuel bundles stored at the Pickering nuclear ...

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Toronto Public Health drug-policy consultation results

Through a public consultation process, Toronto Public Health has found that Torontonians do not believe the current approach to drug policy is working and are supportive of drug use being treated as a public health and social issue, not a ...

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Ford is right, injection sites are dead wrong

Not all the lunatics are in the asylum. Why? Because federal prison officials are providing needles to prisoners so they can inject themselves with illegal drugs. Now, Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, is being criticized for damning the use of ...

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Why did Anthony Bourdain commit suicide?

Albert Camus, the French humanist, wrote, “There is only one true philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.” Pliny the Elder had said earlier, “Admit the miseries ...

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