About 37,000 lives a year would be saved if more Canadians simply increased their daily vitamin D intake to recommended levels, says a study funded by a non-profit group dedicated to raising awareness of the vitamin.
This Friday is Daffodil Day across Canada and the local chapter of the Canadian Cancer Society is encouraging residents to wear their daffodil pins.
More than one in five smokers and former smokers suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, but two-thirds of them don’t even know it, research shows
ANDRÉ PICARD – PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTER
Japanese gut bacteria have picked up genes that may help their hosts to digest the seaweed used to wrap sushi
Ian Sample, science correspondent
The next time you order sushi in a Japanese restaurant, raise a glass of sake to the countless marine microbes that might be clinging to it.
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR (AP)
WASHINGTON — Beware of scam artists taking advantage of the new health insurance law to peddle phony policies, President Barack Obama’s top health official warned consumers Tuesday.
EDISON—The Middlesex County College Nursing Program has been accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC). The program was accredited the first year it was eligible, which is after the first class has graduated.
By Jeremy Armstrong
A single mum who kept a diary recording the 191 times she had sex with a 12-year-old was jailed yesterday for nine years.
By Richard Smith
The fur of the dog has turned out to be the perfect cure for schoolboy Danny Pearce.
The 11-year-old’s life was made a misery because of a severe allergy to man’s best friend.
Even the briefest contact could make him pass out and need urgent hospital treatment.
But now Danny is bark to full health after getting a special drug – containing dog hair. Read More…
A single NHS hospital trust employs staff from more than 70 countries, it has been disclosed.
By Matthew Moore
Managers at Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals in Oxford have arranged for employees to take English lessons after patients complained that they could not make themselves understood.
Men who have sex at least twice a week can almost halve their risk of heart disease, according to new research.
It shows men who indulge in regular lovemaking are up to 45 per cent less likely to develop life-threatening heart conditions than men who have sex once a month or less.
The study, of over 1,000 men, shows sex appears to have a protective effect on the male heart but did not examine whether women benefit too.
Now the American researchers who carried out the investigation are calling for doctors to screen men for sexual activity when assessing their risk of heart disease. Read More…
