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Recently, one of my patients remarked on the growing number of allergies amongst her friends and acquaintances. She had put her finger on one of the symptoms of the world...

Improbable as it might seem, there is one positive effect of the pandemic of HIV-AIDS: it has, for the first time, made the general public aware of our body’s immune...

Have you ever wondered why so many old people, especially women, fracture their hips in what are often relatively minor falls? The answer, in a word, is osteoporosis. Osteo =...

Recently, while walking one of our local trails I came across a little grove of Pacific yew trees thriving in a wet ravine. It was great to see them, because...

Only a few decades ago acupuncture was an exotic treatment little known in Canada outside the Chinese community. Today, acupuncture is joining the medical mainstream. The reason is obvious: acupuncture...

Older readers of this column will probably remember their parents or grandparents complaining about the aches and pains of rheumatism, particularly in cold, damp weather. Although the terminology has changed,...

If asked to name the serious illness that affects more people than any other in the world, what you guess? HIV-AIDS? Malaria? Tuberculosis? Well, the answer, perhaps surprisingly, is clinical...

Every so often, it seems, Mother Nature has to give us a sharp reminder that medical science still has a great deal to learn about the immense complexities of the...

Many older people today can remember their parents cautioning them against eating too many sweets. “You’ll get diabetes,” they used to say, and they came by their fears honestly. Until...

There is a saying to the effect that we all get the face we deserve by the time we’re 40. Though perhaps a bit judgmental, it does contain more than...