Health
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 »
Be the first to comment!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 »
Be the first to comment!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 »
Be the first to comment!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 »
Be the first to comment!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 »
Be the first to comment!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 »
Be the first to comment!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 »
Be the first to comment!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 »
Be the first to comment!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 »
1 responseDoctor Game: Doug Ford is dead right, injection sites are dead wrong
By Medicine Hat News on July 16th, 2018
Not all the lunatics are in the asylum. Why? Because federal prison officials are providing needles to prisoners so they can inject themselves with illegal drugs. Now, Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, is being criticized for damning the use of injection sites in prison and in Canadian cities. Condoning drug use is the most illogical ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Doctor Game: Why did Anthony Bourdain commit suicide?
By Medicine Hat News on July 9th, 2018
Albert Camus, the French humanist, wrote, “There is only one true philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.” Pliny the Elder had said earlier, “Admit the miseries of our life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.” But what prompted ... Read More »
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