March 29th, 2024

Health

To Your Health: Don’t paper over those cuts

By Gillian Slade on August 20th, 2018

An innocent looking little piece of paper has the ability to inflict significant pain. It makes me wince, just thinking of all the paper cuts to fingers and hands over the years. You can actually hear the slice and then the pain starts. We don’t often put things in envelopes anymore but using your tongue ... Read More »

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To Your Health: Plenty of medicinal benefits to good ol’ honey

By Gillian Slade on August 13th, 2018

Watch bees around pretty summer flowers and it does not take long to think of honey, and honey is not only about the sweet taste. Honey can fight bacteria and hospital super-bugs. In fact a Canadian study showed it can kill up to 91 per cent of bacteria. The study conducted some years ago by ... Read More »

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Doctor Game: Marijuana: Did it cure my neck pain? No, but some wine helped

By Medicine Hat News on August 13th, 2018

Is marijuana as good as its reputation for treating painful conditions? Many years ago I suffered a neck injury in Japan which resulted in chronic pain. So I decided to try medical marijuana as painkillers, acupuncture, chiropractic treatment, and massage have had no effect. So what has happened? During my first visit to the marijuana ... Read More »

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Doctor Game: Prostate cancer: Updated advice for the PSA test

By Medicine Hat News on August 6th, 2018

What’s a man to do? Equally important, what’s a doctor to advise when the PSA test is reported elevated? Or should men even be screened for this test? During the last 10 years there’s been considerable flip-lopping about it. Now a large study from the United Kingdom, reported in The Journal of the American Medical ... Read More »

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To Your Health: Full moon rising

By Gillian Slade on August 6th, 2018

gslade@medicinehatnews.com  @MHNGillianSlade Most of us have blamed, at some time or other, a full moon for our grumpiness or that of other people. It usually is said in jest and with a bit of a laugh but now researchers are saying it really makes sense. There has been scientific evidence that during a full ... Read More »

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To Your Health: Lagging behind in dementia research

By Gillian Slade on July 30th, 2018

About 25,000 new cases of dementia are diagnosed every year in Canada. There are already more than 500,000 people living with dementia in our country and experts have estimated that number will double in the next 13 years. There are more cases of dementia in prosperous nations because the people of those nations tend to ... Read More »

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Doctor Game: A long-term family doctor decreases your chance of death

By Medicine Hat News on July 30th, 2018

How important are new tests to diagnose and treat disease? Or improved surgical techniques, speedier emergency care and doctors specializing in various fields of medicine? The fact is that all improvements in medical care make life easier for patients and save lives. But a long overdue English report shows the family doctor (FD) also helps ... Read More »

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Doctor Game: Children and grandchildren headed for liver transplants

By Medicine Hat News on July 23rd, 2018

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 result. In those days beer was safer to drink than water. It’s still a safe ... Read More »

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To Your Health: Antioxidants and eye health

By Gillian Slade on July 23rd, 2018

Antioxidants are more and more important in the fight against free radicals and could play a significant part in eye health. There is research to suggest eating even one orange a day can reduce your risk of developing age-related macular degeneration, which affects the retina. Changes occur to the central vision and can cause significant ... Read More »

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To Your Health: Sugar could be stopping your sweet sleep

By Gillian Slade on July 16th, 2018

There are a range of possible reasons for not sleeping well and/or not falling asleep but there is one that we don’t often think of. Sugar. It is certainly not something I’d ever thought of until the day after struggling to get to sleep. By chance I heard an expert talking about her sleep being ... Read More »

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