Health

(NC) If you’re like most people living with a chronic condition, you have no plans of letting it stop you from leading an exciting, active life. But this takes careful management, which can sometimes be challenging and complicated. Fortunately, you ...

Early results indicate corrosion control is lowering lead levels in Toronto’s tap water. tap water lead The City of Toronto’s targeted testing of tap water lead in 2017 indicates significantly lower lead levels, a result of a Corrosion Control Plan ...

Call for mandatory radon testing focus of national Healthy Schools Day petition Despite known cancer risks, most provincial and territorial governments in Canada do not require radon testing of schools and child care programs (Ottawa, April 3, 2018) – This ...

What a sad, thought-provoking photo, published in the Globe and Mail newspaper. It shows Sudan, the last male northern white rhino, unable to stand. You can see the terrible frustration and pain on his face. Veterinarians, at the Pejeta Kenyan ...

United for a Barrier-Free Ontario for All People with Disabilities Ontario Throne Speech Offers More Mental Health and Addiction Supports, but Nothing New on Accessibility for 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities March 19, 2018 SUMMARY The Wynne Government pre-election Throne ...

A Spanish proverb states, “He loses all who loses the right moment.” I had a similar thought a few weeks ago when I wrote, “a brain that’s full of knowledge has no room left to dream.” Why these philosophical mutterings? ...

  Leonardo da Vinci once remarked, “Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.” Trifles can make a huge difference in surgery, when building rockets, in nutrition, or in life generally. For instance, a report in the publication LifeExtension shows ...

Big Pharma shouldn’t exist. Pharmaceuticals are a health necessity that mustn’t be continued as business monopolies that are distorted, perverted and corrupted by the profit lusts of transnational corporations that operate outside of—and frequently in opposition to—the public interest. Drug ...

Scott Fitzgerald, the author, once remarked, “The worst thing in the world is try to sleep and not to.” I’m sure many readers share Fitzgerald’s problem. But suppose this common trouble kills you? That’s when it’s worthwhile to find out ...

          It’s been said that “If you don’t learn from history, you’re destined to relive it”. So today I have to repeat what I’ve said before. It’s apparent that the medical profession, TV anchors, and Medical ...