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Maureen Taylor

As a journalist and broadcaster for 17 years, Maureen Taylor brings a wealth of experience to her on-air roles on TVO.
Your Health Online - Season 3

Program 13, December 18, 2001

Tuberculosis

Many Canadians are old enough to remember sanitoriums, where thousands were quarantined with tuberculosis.  About 2 billion people are still infected world wide and as many as three million people die from TB every year.   Anita Hall was born in Canada and never dreamed she was at risk.  She lived with active TB for months before she was diagnosed and treated.

Screening Immigrants

In Toronto, immigrants and refugees make up 90 per cent of new cases of active tuberculosis.   And that's despite the fact that immigrants are screened.  However, they're not screened for other things like Hepatitis B and HIV, which are also deadly and costly to treat.  A conversation with Dr. Jay Keystone, an infectious diseases expert at the University Health Network.

Medicine 101

Knees

If you have a bum knee, you're not alone. Knee pain is the most
common reason people see an orthopedic specialist. You don't have to
go down on bended knee, but just listen up to Dr. Paul Caldwell.
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Next Week's Your Health

December 25

XMAS REPEAT

Can Prayer Heal?

Those who believe prayer heals got a boost from a recent study.  It showed women undergoing in vitro fertilization had higher rates of pregnancy when groups of strangers anonymously prayed for them.  That won't be enough to convince the skeptics, but cancer survivor Judy Milli isn't one of them.

Full Body Scans

Dozens of people in Vancouver have forked out almost a thousand dollars each to get a three-dimensional look at their insides.  It's called a "full-body scan", and it's done with a million-dollar x-ray machine called a CT scan.  The problem is, their doctors didn't order these tests, and they may be medically unnecessary.