When it comes to fighting cancer, we have incredibly effective interventions including chemotherapy and radiation therapy. While these treatments can be effective, they also come with a number of side effects. For some people, these side effects, including nausea, weakness, hair loss and fatigue, are too difficult to tolerate. Spending time walking through a forest or listening to the sounds of waves crashing can ease the body and mind without side effects.
Read MoreFind out how a new approach to urban and industrial farming could help us meet the food demand, save on resources and have healthier communities.
Read MoreLiver Month in Canada provides an opportunity to discuss one of the most important organs in your body. The liver performs a variety of essential functions, including detoxifying your blood, processing nutrients, and producing bile, but are we giving it the care it needs?
Read MoreProcessed food is now the norm, but it might be taking years off your life—and you have no way of knowing. Here’s what to look for on labels and how changing your eating patterns today could save you.
Read MorePrompting this opinion piece was the deluge of patients I see who feel invisible in the health system. Stories of being talked over, dismissed, rejected and downright scorned for voicing another opinion are distressingly common. When did we conflate the idea of healthcare professionals with being divine, and in doing so, give away our own autonomy?
Read MoreMy own reflection during Black History Month reminded me of a discussion we had in one of my third year classes where we discussed bias in medicine. Specifically, the egregious myth in hospitals and clinics around the world that black people experience less pain. The statistics were no less shocking…
Read MoreWithout the daily distractions of shopping and eating out, we turned our gaze upwards and around. Many of us were reminded, as poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder so eloquently states, “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
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