New Hope for Those With ALS
By Lola Augustine Brown For the first time in 22 years, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved…
Health & Wellness
10 Minutes a Day to Beat Anxiety
By Lola Augustine Brown If you deal with anxiety, a mere 10 minutes of meditation each day can help you to stay on task in your daily life, according to a small-scale study conducted at the University of Waterloo. Those…
Probiotic Yogourt Claims May Be Baloney
By Lola Augustine Brown If like millions of Canadians you choose probiotic yogourt over other kinds in the hope…
Medical Tests You Don’t Need
Should you really have a chest X-ray before knee surgery? Probably not By Lola Augustine Brown More than a…
Healthy gums for a longer life
If you floss every day and take care of your oral health, you may be rewarded with more than a…
More elders but less elder care
By Lola Augustine Brown Better access to home and community care reduces the load on hospitals, so you’d think access…
A User’s Guide for Caregivers
If you don’t take care of yourself, you’ll end up being unable to take care of the one who needs…
Interval Training Best for Anti-Aging
If you’ve ever done any high-intensity aerobic interval training, you’ll know how physically demanding these fitness classes are. You definitely…
Virtual Reality Comes to Medicine
By Lola Augustine Brown Once nothing more than the stuff of science fiction movies, virtual reality (VR) technology is becoming…
Want to Live Longer? Get Off Your…Seat
By Lola Augustine Brown Spending too much time sitting down can cause you to age more quickly than if…
