Category: Health

TORONTO — Photos of the Kelly family on their rolling farm in Saskatchewan seem to show a picture-perfect life and a picture-perfect family, beaming under the prairie sun. But not so long ago, Mathieu Kelly was suffering under a crushing work...

I have recurring mouth ulcers, which my research suggests is something called Sutton disease II. My doctors haven’t mentioned this, though. I am otherwise healthy but the ulcers make me feel run down and treatments don’t work. I am 57. Dave...

For the estimated six million people in Britain who have a needle phobia, it’s the news many have been anxiously waiting for. This month, scientists in the UK will begin testing a vaccine against Covid-19 that can be squirted up the nose...

Decades ago, Winston Churchill said: ‘Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts 20 minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces.’...

VANCOUVER — After administering nearly 120,000 doses of the two COVID-19 vaccines approved for use in Canada, British Columbia has now received 56 reports of “adverse events” following immunization. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry confirmed the numbers at her coronavirus...

COVID-19 has left scores of survivors with bizarre had debilitating neurological effects that range from mani to neurological episodes, a new report reveals.  A 40-year-old teacher who has spent his life communicating with a classroom of students found himself with a...

Could Scotland soon allow assisted dying? Physician-assisted dying (PAD) is legal in a small group of countries including Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and parts of the U.S. Jersey and Portugal are now considering a change to permit PAD under...

Some men regard hair loss as a mark of masculinity, but for many affected, both men and women, it is far from welcome. With an estimated 40 per cent of men and 30 per cent of women in the UK having...

A radioactive form of a drug originally developed as an animal tranquilliser could help to transform the diagnosis of high blood pressure. Scientists at Cambridge University hope the drug will enable doctors to improve the diagnosis of primary hyperaldosteronism (PHA), a...

BREAKING NEWS: Brazil’s ‘super-covid’ arrives in the US: Minnesota resident becomes first American with highly-contagious variant that vaccines may not be able to protect against Minnesota health officials identified the first case of the Brazilian P1 variant in the US on...