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…
Health & Wellness
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 would be improving as the population gets older. Not in British Columbia, where access to care has in fact been…
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…
New Treatment can Halt Chemo Hair Loss
By Lola Augustine Brown Recent reports of two separate US studies suggest that a European technology gaining acceptance in North…
How To Cope With Sensitive Skin
DON’T LET ITCHY, IRRITABLE SKIN DRIVE YOU MAD By Wendy Haaf Does it seem as though your skin is becoming…
The Mediterranean Diet May Be Good for Your Brain, Too
By Lola Augustine Brown The virtues of the Mediterranean diet have long been extolled. We all know by now that…
Older First-Time Moms May Live Longer
ecently published results of a study that followed 20,000 women for up to 21 years showed that more than…
Chronic Insomniac? There’s an App for That
New research out of the University of Virginia has shown that a focused online therapy program can help insomniacs get…
