Health
Doctor Game: A horrible way to start the day
By Medicine Hat News on September 17th, 2018
The first thing I do every morning is read the newspaper. This morning I should have stayed in bed. The headline read, “No amount of alcohol is safe.” The report claimed to be one of the largest studies of alcohol consumption that’s ever been done. To make my day worse, the litany of alcohol problems ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Doctor Game: Give your heart a tune-up in just 30 days
By Medicine Hat News on September 10th, 2018
Have I been missing a vital remedy to maintain a healthy heart? I wondered if that was the case when I read an article in LifeExtension titled, “The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up.” The author, Dr. Steven Masley, is a Fellow of both The American Heart Association and The American Academy of Nutrition. He has devoted his ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!To Your Health: Advocate for your best healthy self
By Gillian Slade on September 10th, 2018
You are your own best health advocate and now is the ideal time of year to establish your own health file at home, or take another look at one you already have. The more organized you are in that health file, the better. Keep track of when your immunizations need updating or boosting, when you ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!To Your Health: Time limits, regular cleaning for your smartphone
By Gillian Slade on August 27th, 2018
It sometimes looks like we have an addiction to smartphones that impacts our relationships with family, friends and consequently our health, not to mention germs and bacteria collecting on your phone and even your keyboard. So strong is our addiction to phones many people carry them around in their hands, not even putting them away ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Doctor Game: When and when aren’t heart stents lifesaving?
By Medicine Hat News on August 27th, 2018
Every year over 300,000 North Americans have a stent implanted to increase the flow of blood to heart’s muscle. Stents have been inserted for decades because of cardiologists’ concern that, without a stent, a heart attack may occur. Or, a coronary attack may have already caused angina, due to inadequate blood supply. Now, a study ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Doctor Game: Readers agree Doug Ford is right about injection sites
By Medicine Hat News on August 20th, 2018
My recent negative column about injection sites in prison and elsewhere triggered a rapid response. Here is a good sampling of both sides of the issue. From BK, “Isn’t that rich? Physicians help in a major way to create the huge opioid problem, and you as a doctor, say death to drug dealers. Finding a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!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 »
Be the first to comment!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!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: 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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