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What would be your choice for the most wonderful machine in the world? An intercontinental jet? The computer? A MRI scanner? I’d plump for the human heart. Think of it:...

It has often been said that the chronic illness of Canada’s health care system is due not just to a shortage of money, but equally to problems within the system....

A number of patients have asked me recently about the flu virus that has been killing people in Asia. They are concerned that it might show up here, and they...

At this time of year, with the sun dipping lower on the southern horizon, many of us feel the loom of dark days and winter illness ahead. This is a...

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if diseases were neatly discrete, each with its own distinctive set of causes, symptoms and treatments, impossible to confuse with any other medical condition. The reality,...

Although we tend to think of the human heart as the body’s most faithful servant, beating away all our lives, it is the liver that is the real work horse....

At one time or other we’ve all experienced the inflammation that gathers around an infected cut or sliver. The redness, of course, is caused by red blood cells (RBCs), but...

Imagine, if you can, that you have just fallen into a vat of industrial waste. Solvents, heavy metals, hydrocarbons – a thoroughly nasty soup. So what do you do? Of...

We’ve all heard at one time or other of blood doping, the intravenous injection of blood containing abnormally high concentrations of red blood cells to improve athletic performance. Red blood...

So what is this stuff called skin that’s all around us? If we think of it at all, our skin is just a bag that holds everything else inside, something...