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NSAIDs: This impetus for this comment came from an Edmonton GP who is the weekly doctor guest on our local CBC morning show. He discussed how some people get a bit careless with the dosing of NSAIDs since they are available OTC. Also there are many brands out there but generally containing only naproxen or […]
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JUNE 3, 2018 SUNSCREENS: Each year at the beginning of June, I always put a sunscreen comment in the column. People need reminding of the importance of sunscreens in the prevention of skin cancers. I mentioned the passing last year of CBC’s Stuart Maclean in a previous column. His death due to melanoma […]
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May 27, 2018 DIGICEUTICALS: This word is a short form for “digital therapeutic”. At the beginning of this year, I started subscribing to The Economist, a weekly magazine that covers the world of current events. This topic was in a February 2018 edition. There are over 150 companies worldwide working on apps of […]
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May 20, 2018 WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY: According to the WHO, tobacco is the second leading cause of heart disease after high blood pressure. Evidently worldwide, tobacco kills more than 7 million people each year of which close to 900,000 are non-smokers dying from breathing second-hand smoke. Nearly 80% of the more than […]
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As we get older, our senses of taste and smell decline. If this is a problem for you, try a small amount of strongly flavoured food at the beginning of a meal. This may stimulate the taste buds as well as the flow of saliva and could increase interest of the food to follow. […]
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The knowledge of human anatomy was very limited until the middle of the 16th Century when Andreas Vesalius published “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” in 1543. It was the first definitive text on the anatomy of the human body. The information was gathered from meticulous dissection of human cadavers, many obtained via grave robbers. The text […]
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April 29, 2018 VESALIUS AND HUMAN ANATOMY: Vesalius was born in 1514 at a time when surgery and anatomy were considered of little importance compared to other branches of medicine at the time like blood-letting. He believed that surgery must be grounded in anatomy. He was aided in his studies of anatomy by […]
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HOME BLOOD PRESSURE KITS: Today’s crop of BP kits are much more reliable than they were a decade ago. When we are recommending these kits to our customers, remind them to wait a least 30 minutes after exercising and an hour after smoking. Caffeine doesn’t seem to have that much an effect on blood […]
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