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With Large Injury Numbers, Is a Colonoscopy Even Worth It?

👉 Sponsor OFFER: Get pure, easy to store American Elderberry extract at 20 percent off now through Feb. 15, 2023, with code Health20 at WisconsinElderberry.com ———– A colonoscopy is not a pleasant procedure. But the mainstream medical consensus is that it saves lives from colorectal cancer. And yet, a major European study that involved 84,585…


Wait Times at Walk-In Clinics in Canada Increased by 50 Percent in 2022

Wait times for Canadians at walk-in medical clinics rose by nearly 50 percent in 2022 compared to the previous year, providing yet another symptom of the crisis in health care. The recently released Medimap Walk-in Clinic Wait Time Index shows that Canadians had to wait 37 minutes on average to see a doctor last year,…


Premiers Express Disappointment With Trudeau Pitch for Health Care Transfer Deal

After the first meeting between Canada’s provincial and territorial premiers and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in over two years, the premiers came away expressing disappointment in the federal government’s offer on health care transfers, and an intention to continue negotiations. In a meeting in Ottawa on Feb. 7, Trudeau offered to increase the federal share…


Sask Premier Moe Says No to Digital ID

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he will not concede to any request by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to have a digital ID be a condition of augmented federal health-care funding. The announcement was made in a response letter from Moe to citizens who inquired with the his office regarding this aspect of upcoming Canada Health…


Why Nearly 45 Percent of American School-Aged Children Suffer from Chronic Health Conditions

Nearly 45 percent of American school-aged children suffer from chronic health issues, according to a 2018 National Survey of Children’s Health. That’s over 27 million kids. Parents are often stuck trying to figure out what went wrong. Some doctors say chronic diseases are too hard to treat, others are happy to give medication to mask…


The Sovietization of Medical Care

Commentary My good friend professor Yuri Maltsev died this week and I’ve spent these mourning days recalling our conversations. He was a leading economist in the old Soviet Union, as the top advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev’s chief economist. He defected in 1989 before the Soviet Union fell apart. We became fast friends just after he…


Does ‘Dark Mode’ on Phones Really Help Us Sleep?

While our ancestors were lulled to sleep by the flickering, dancing flames of their cabin or campfires, we’re more likely to be kept awake by the unnatural, unending glow of our cell phone screens. Throughout our bodies are biological clocks that regulate our circadian rhythms, like our sleep/wake cycles. These take their cue from the…


Could Natural Medicine Save the Health Care System?

Looking for a bargain? You won’t find it in health care. Particularly in the United States, where Americans spend more each year, but somehow have less to show for it. According to a report from the Commonwealth Fund in early 2020, the United States spent nearly twice as much on health care as other wealthy…


NS Needs to Double Number of Residency Spots for Med School to Slash Wait Times: Medical Association President

Doubling the number of residencies for medical school graduates in Nova Scotia is the only way to have enough locally educated physicians in order to reduce the province’s long wait times for health care, says the president of Doctors Nova Scotia, which represents over 3,500 physicians. In recent weeks, two women died after spending hours…


Doctor Reveals Effective Long COVID Treatment

Dr. Pierre Kory, an intensive care lung doctor, is actively treating over 200 long COVID patients in his private practice. Today, he shares his treatment successes and challenges. Long COVID is a condition that can last for months after an initial infection. It manifests in many different forms, such as clotting in blood vessels, persistent…