In Saturday’s Globe and Mail, letter-writer Kevin Martino tore a strip off Terrence Sullivan and David Musyj, the CEOs of Cancer Care Ontario and the Windsor Regional Hospital, for spewing %26#34;bureaucratic bafflegab%26#34; in response to the case of an ovarian cancer patient whose long wait for care was highlighted in a [...]
Deanna Dudley was a blue baby, born with two holes in her heart. Doctors told her parents she had only a 50-per-cent chance of living more than 24 hours.
She spent most of her early years in the hospital, but when she was 10, a surgeon repaired the defects. Ms. Dudley, now [...]
OTTAWA %26#151; A new study has found the use of health-care services differs depending on sexual preference.
The Statistics Canada study examined whether sexual preference was a factor in health-care use between 2003 and 2005 %26#8211; it looked at things such as consulting health-care providers, having a regular doctor and using [...]
A Conservative administration would increase health spending by up to an extra
%26pound;28 billion a year, a leading moderniser has told The Times. Andrew Lansley,
the Shadow Health Secretary, gave a long-term commitment that under the
Tories health spending will rise to take up an extra 2 per cent of GDP.
%26ldquo;I think we are bound to have rising [...]
Health officials are screening the close contacts of a man who has become
Britains first case of a virtually untreatable form of drug-resistant
tuberculosis.
The man, believed to be a Somali asylum-seeker in his thirties, has a rare
strain, Extremely Drug Resistant TB (XDR-TB), which has a high mortality
rate.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that XDR-TB accounts for possibly
only [...]
A Europe-wide ban on artificial additives commonly found in sweets and drinks
and linked to hyperactive behaviour in children has been ruled out by
regulators.
Food campaigners reacted furiously to the decision by the European Food Safety
Authority and are demanding that Britain takes unilateral action to remove
the additives from food.
The EFSA decided that a %26pound;750,000 research project in [...]
Shannon Lush thinks cleaning the house is fun. She turns it into a game,
racing against her own time record. %26ldquo;My best so far is doing the bathroom in
eight and half minutes, she says, adding that music is a great help. %26ldquo;I
like squirting vinegar spray when the cannons go off during the 1812
Overture.
Lush, 51, is Australias [...]
There has been much bewailing of late about the wintry hiking weather.Not by me. It must have been my hiking buddies! So when we began our hike at Lower Table Rock just north of Medford in the mist, clouds, and winter chill, it was just one more reason to call in sick with inclement [...]
She helped arrange electronic payment of their bills. She helped them think through the pros and cons of moving into an apartment. She made sure her siblings were up to date on the latest health news. “I don’t think of it as a duty,” [...]
The paper, published in this month’s Journal of Sexual Medicine, was trumpeted in some quarters as proof of the existence of the G spot, which has been hotly contested for decades. Made famous in 1982 The “spot” [...]
