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University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics
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Aneurysms
Inside each of us is a complex system of arteries
and veins that gets blood to whereever it needs to go. But
sometimes that system can spring a leak, a potentially fatal
one. When that happens it's called an aneurysm.
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Mini-Med
- Pap Test
Earlier we heard about what doesn't give you cancer. But
one of the best ways for detecting cancer is the pap test.
Here's Cobourg family physician, Dr. Paul Caldwell with
this week's Medicine 101.
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Your
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November
12
Work
Stress
Show me someone who isn't stressed at work. We all are but
there are certain kinds of stress that are actually making
people sick. Stress can be responsible for everything from
depression, to heart disease, and even the common cold.
And employee absenteeism is skyrocketing. So health and
business professionals, including doctors from the Centre
for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, have teamed
up to try to discover exactly what is making people sick
on the job, and how to prevent it. Irma Lutkin is one person
they want to help.
Pain Guidelines
It's difficult enough to face the death of a loved one but
what if the person was suffering unbearable pain? You'd
want drugs to ease their pain .. but what if those drugs
hastened their death? That's a choice made every day at
the bedsides of the terminally ill. And it's a decision
doctors are often reluctant to make, worried that their
intentions may be misinterpreted. A new set of pain guidelines
hopes to ease those fears. Dr. Laura Hawryluck is an intensive
care doctor, ethicist at the University of Toronto and the
lead author of the new guidelines. Joining her is Margaret
Anderson, who founded a hospice for cancer patients in Oakville.
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November
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Epilepsy
Epilepsy is a common condition that affects as many as one
in a hundred Canadians. At least 120,000 Ontarians have
it. Not all of them suffer seizures but, for the majority,
those few moments of uncontrolled electrical activity in
the brain wreaks havoc with their lives. Drugs help control
the intensity and frequency of seizures, but for some, medications
just don't work.
But there's good evidence now that for a select group of
patients their best hope is brain surgery. They just have
to get over the fear that can keep them from their best
chance for a cure. Michael Mooradian is one such patient.
He lives in Toronto and had his surgery at the Toronto Western
Hospital.
Cancer Myths
It seems these days you can't turn around without hearing
about something else that causes cancer ... everything from
bacon to cell phones. But what's myth and what's reality?
Here's our contributing editor and oncologist Dr. Rob Buckman
from Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital.
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