How do we decrease emergency room visits?
Canadians have the highest rates of emergency room visits among high-income countries. We need a better care model…
Rethinking type 2 diabetes
It’s time to stop blaming individuals for poor eating choices, and move toward community action.…
How healthy is our health-care system?
A recent report compares care across eight developed countries, including Canada. The results are edifying…
Child abuse linked to depression, anxiety in later life
Childhood abuse or neglect can permanently alter an individual’s physiology…
Prolonged journeys in space help inform research into frailty
Astronauts and seniors with frailty have much in common and innovative research may help solve problems for both…
Reading the signs your child might be stressed out
And how to help them overcome it…
Tackling snoring as a family problem
Regardless of who may be the snorer, any disruption to one’s sleep can have short term and long term negative consequences…
The invaluable power of healthy skepticism
Usain Bolt became the fastest human being ever by eating – wait for it – Chicken McNuggets, not following the latest health care fad…
Taking a bite out of the dangerous notion that food is medicine
Pseudoscience and quackery love the food-is-medicine philosophy because it helps them sell their nutritional supplements, diet books and therapy sessions…
How do we make sense of, and manage, football’s violence?
Head-first tackles, helmet swinging and devastating hip injuries all add to a game’s growing reputation for chaos…