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Heart
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Sleep
Apnea
There's
nothing more annoying that being kept awake all night by
someone who snores, but before you elbow them out of bed,
have a listen to our medical professor, Dr.
Paul Caldwell and his lesson on Sleep Apnea.
Next
Week...
What
do your flexor carpi radialis and your palmaris longus have
in common? Well, they're just 2 of hundreds of muscles and
all of them
fascinate Dr. Paul Caldwell.
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Your
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October 1
Simple
Solutions
You go to the hospital to get better… right? Well,
not always. Hospitals have long been hot beds for breeding
bacteria. You used to be able to catch deadly diseases like
typhoid and cholera there.
Thankfully, we don’t get those anymore. But what many
of us don't realize is that thousands of Canadians are still
getting sick and dying every year from infections acquired
while in hospital; the very place that’s supposed
to make us better.
There are guidelines to cut down on infections, but hospitals
don’t have to follow them. So what can you do to stay
healthy while in hospital?
The solutions are simple.
Latest in Heart Research
A recent groundbreaking study on hormone replacement therapy
was stopped when researchers found a high incidence of breast
cancer. But behind the headlines there was startling information
about HRT and its effect on women's hearts. Here to bring
us up to date on that study and other developments in research
on the heart is Dr. Rob Myers. He's a cardiologist at Sunnybrook
and Women's College Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.
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October
8
Testicular
Cancer
It wasn't that long
ago that nobody
talked about breast
cancer or prostate cancer. Now of course that's changed.
The taboo is gone, and there's information everywhere about
early detection and prevention.
But there's another type of cancer that's only recently
started to get attention.
Testicular cancer is the leading type of the disease in
men
aged 20 to 44. And for a lot of men it's still a taboo subject.
Now, some people are determined to change that.
Hormone Replacement Therapy
Millions of Canadian women on hormone replacement therapy
were shocked earlier this year when they found out the hormones
they‚d been taking did more harm than good.
A major U.S. study found that the combination of estrogen
and protestin increased the risk of heart disease, stroke
and breast cancer.
Women are still asking what they should do and here to help
answer those questions are Dr. Paul Goss, an oncologist
at Princess Margaret Hospital and Dr. Sandy Messner, the
medical director of HealthWatch at Sunnybrook and Women's
College Health Sciences Centre.
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