Category: health care

Oriental Goji Berry Long Used for Anti-Aging, Antioxidant, and Eye-Health Properties

According to ancient Chinese legend, there was a village where people drank water from a well surrounded by goji berries daily. Is it mere coincidence that those villagers lived to be well over a hundred? Traditional Chinese medicine sees a connection between the brain, the various energy channels of the body, and nutrition. How does…


EAT 2 EGGS, OR MORE? How Many Eggs to Eat and Good vs Bad Cholesterol

Eggs are the base and the ‘binding force’ of my Sunday morning – bratwurst frittata recipe – featured in this episode. Eggs are key to a multitude of the dishes we eat from day to day. But is eating too many bad for our health? Is the cholesterol they contain good or bad for us?…


Trudeau Says No Elections in 2023, No Meeting With Premiers Unless Agreed Upon Deal

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a year-end interview with a Quebec TV station on Dec. 20 dismissed the idea that elections could take place next year and said he wouldn’t meet with premiers on health care unless a deal has already been struck. “No, no, no,” Trudeau told TVA Nouvelles when asked about the possibility…


Trudeau Says No Election in 2023, No Meeting With Premiers Unless Agreed-Upon Deal

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in a year-end interview with a Quebec TV station on Dec. 20 dismissed the idea that a federal election could take place next year and said he wouldn’t meet with premiers on health care unless a deal has already been struck. “No, no, no,” Trudeau told TVA Nouvelles when asked about…


Alleged Lack of Transparency Renews Fears Over Vaccine Passports in Orange County

The controversy over vaccine passports has resurfaced in Orange County, California, as a new potential contract with the firm that was paid $4 million to develop a digital vaccination tracking program recently appeared on multiple Board of Supervisors public meeting agendas—but was then removed. According to county documents, County Health Officer Dr. Clayton Chau submitted…


Emergency Room Wait Times Up Across Canada: Federal Data

Close to 14 million Canadians visited an emergency room between April 2021 and March 2022 and those patients faced increased wait times at hospitals across the country, according to data from the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). The data released by CIHI on Dec. 8 shows that 90 percent of emergency department visits for…


400% More Ontario Patients Dying While Awaiting CT and MRI Scans: Report

Ontario has seen a 400 percent increase since 2015 in the number of patients who have died waiting for medical scans to diagnose their illnesses, according to a new report by SecondStreet.org. The report also found a 24.7 percent increase since 2018 in patients dying while on surgical wait lists nationwide. These findings follow a…


‘Open-Air Drug Use Cannot Be Tolerated’: Alberta Set to Take Firm Action

Alberta’s public safety minister is heading a new interagency task force to take action on drug use and homelessness in Edmonton. It aims to create a hybrid justice and health system, a model that could then spread to other cities in Alberta. “I don’t think you need to walk more than a block to see…


Wait Times for Specialists, Surgery in Canada Highest in Nearly 30 Years: Survey

Canadians are now waiting longer than ever before if they need to see a specialist, obtain diagnostic procedures, or undergo surgery, according to a new survey. This year, an estimated 1,228,047 Canadians are waiting for procedures in 10 provinces. This is roughly 3.2 percent of the country’s population, assuming each person is only waiting for…


How to Easily Eat Enough Soluble Fiber and Lose Belly Fat?

How the ‘Right Fiber’ Can Help You Lose Belly Fat? What kind of fiber nourishes the microbes in the gut? The more we discover about the human microbiome – the population of microbes that live in the human body – the more we see the connection between gut health and overall body health. What kind…