2000 - 2001 Archive
Your Health Show #7
Originally Aired
November 14thSUDEP
Sudden, unexplained death. It happens to infants, and we call it SIDS. When it happens to people with epilepsy, it's called SUDEP, which stands for Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy. And, like the parents of babies who die of SIDS, it leaves doctors mystified and families devastated.
SUDEP resources:For more information about SUDEP or Ann Farrell’s support group, contact the Epilepsy Association of Metro Toronto
Phone: (416)964-9095
Fax: (416) 964-2492
Organ Donations
We Canadians like to think of ourselves as generous, but when it comes to organ donations, we have one of the worst donation rates in the developed world. Several provinces are trying to change that.In British Columbia, hospitals must ask grieving families about organ donation. And Ontario and Nova Scotia are developing similar laws. But aggressive campaigns to increase organ donations raise ethical questions.
When do you approach a shattered family? Who determines when a donor is actually dead? A discussion about organ donations with Maria Kjerulf, a registered nurse and organ donation co-ordinator at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, and Margaret Somerville, a medical ethicist at McGill University in Montreal and author of The Ethical Canary.
This week Herbalist Joe Schwarcz talks about Beta Carotene
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