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…
Health & Wellness
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 million Canadians every year undergo medical tests or treatments that they don’t need and that may do more harm than…
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…
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…
