Family doctors are overdosing on industry sponsorship
Oct 28, 2018 12:11 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
If Canadian family physicians hope to maintain the trust of our patients, we must reject sales pitches thinly veiled as education at our premier conference. Next month, the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC)...
Why do some people hurt more than others?
Oct 28, 2018 11:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Anyone who came of age in the 1990s remembers the Friends episode where Phoebe and Rachel venture out to get tattoos. Spoiler alert: Rachel gets a tattoo and Phoebe ends up with a black ink dot because she couldnt take the...
Blood type, Pioppi, gluten-free and Mediterranean – which popular diets are fads?
Oct 24, 2018 00:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Each year, new weight loss diets appear that promise to reveal the ultimate secret of success if only you buy the book, pills or potions. Fad diets might achieve short-term results but they are difficult to sustain in...
How to avoid Lyme disease while ticks are hungry in the fall
Oct 24, 2018 00:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Fall has arrived. This is the season that transforms our forests with a beautiful display of colour and fills our kitchens with the smell of pumpkin pie and apple cider. It also brings something far less pleasant to our...
Planning for death must happen long before the last few days of life
Oct 20, 2018 16:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Our experience of death obviously shapes the final moments of our own life. It also shapes the experience and remains in the memories of those around us. Around 160,000 Australians die each year, but few achieve the...
To eliminate TB we need imagination and ambition
Oct 20, 2018 16:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
I recently had chance to attend the first-ever United Nations high-level meeting on tuberculosis. It was an historic opportunity for heads of state to acknowledge the enormous burden of tuberculosis (TB), the worlds...
How to make work menopause-friendly: don't think of it as a problem to be managed
Oct 20, 2018 16:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
For many, menopause conjures up feelings of embarrassment, hot flushes, mood swings and sleep disturbance. It doesnt usually conjure up thoughts about the workplace. Yet menopause at work is fast becoming a target of...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects