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Blog / BY: Sharadh Sampath, MD, FRCSC
... we’re still accepting of discrimination against people who suffer from obesity.   If we’re honest with ... gluttony, or weakness. We can make jokes about fat people and rarely get called on it. We talk about how ... an excellent way to undermine the struggles that these people are going through. The truth is, obesity is a medical ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... , an American not-for-profit organization that honors “people responsible for the great technical advances that make ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... lasted from 1665–1666. It killed an estimated 100 000 people, almost a quarter of London’s population. Many years ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... personal and professional satisfaction out of helping people, including by providing safe and deeply caring ...
Blog / BY: Jonathan McDonald
“My life is different from most people’s.” That’s what Mandie, a young mother of three ... with one another about their challenges and triumphs. “People who are taking care of their family and friends often ... support or simply to learn about the challenges so many people are experiencing while they’re taking care of ...
Blog / BY: Javis Lui, BA
... FIT kit. FIT is a routine screening test recommended for people between the ages of 50 and 74 with no symptoms of ... the cause of these symptoms. FIT is not appropriate for people with these symptoms. Labs temporarily suspended the ... in efforts to minimize COVID-19 transmission in healthy people. —Javis Lui Leader, Screening Promotions, BC Cancer ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... as well as cardiopulmonary resuscitation has enabled people who had passed the traditional “there is no pulse, ... of his near-death experience is consistent with other people’s reports of the existence of a wonderful, warm, ...
Blog / BY: Darryl Quantz, MFPH, MPH, MSc
... environmental challenges; however, we know less about people’s perceptions of the role of health systems in ... to climate change.   The health care system is full of people passionate about planetary health action both in and ... impacts of climate change.  We need to continue raising people’s expectations and awareness that we are committed ...
Blog / BY: George Szasz, CM, MD
... intimate self- or partner-stimulation vary wildly. Some people privately accept masturbation but ridicule it ... Reading books was something new in the early 1700s, and people were absorbed in the stories they read. However, ... commonplace, and that it was most common among educated people. In 1968 the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of ...
Blog / BY: Craig Stevenson
... as hearing aids, is astonishingly low. A large portion of people (75% to 80%) with hearing loss don’t seek care, ...