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Do you sometimes get confused about vitamins, unsure whether you are getting enough of A or B or XYZ? Well, join the crowd. The subject is complex and beset with...

Becoming a little forgetful these days? Can’t remember where you left the car keys or your hat? Wondering whether you are on the slippery slope to Alzheimer’s disease? While it’s...

The human mouth is a busy place, what with words being formed and projected as speech, food and drink arriving at all hours, and air passing to and from the...

Perhaps you saw the excellent global status report on HIV-AIDS in The Chief last month by Sea-to-Sky medical health officer, Dr. Paul Martiquet. The statistic that stood out for me,...

Did you ever wonder why it is that people returning from winter vacations so often fall sick within a day or two of their return? The reasons are not hard...

Contemplating a vacation this summer in Europe, Asia or perhaps somewhere in the southern hemisphere? If so, you should be aware of a potentially dangerous, even fatal, risk that is...

As man-made climate change progresses, so does the cost to human health, not least the proliferation of skin cancers resulting from thinning of Earth’s protective ozone layer. Already, malignant melanoma...

Although I can’t vouch for the truth of this, I’ve heard it said that when powerlines were first extended to homes in rural Canada, some of our backwoods citizens were...

More than three centuries ago, western science turned to an investigative method called reductionism, the breaking down of complex things into component parts that were small and simple enough to...

Among the growing list of medical conditions attributable to our high-fat western diet, there is no more obvious case of cause and effect than the stones that form in the...