A Shot in the Arm

News about the HPV vaccine seems to be everywhere, but I may be hyper-aware because I just finished writing an article about it.
I was asked to get out there and discover what students at Douglas College thought about the vaccine. I thought they’d be dead tired of hearing about it. Turns out, most of the young women I [...]

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Healthy Cosmetics

A while ago I was writing a beauty article and when I asked if I could mention specific product names I was told, yes, but they had to be natural beauty products. That stopped me dead. How does someone evaluate whether a product is natural or more importantly (to me) non-toxic.
Since then, I’ve found a few organizations [...]

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Spin Cycle

 
Years ago I was at a skit night for interns and residents. One of the residents who worked in a hospital that served an elderly population got up and said he had recently seen an outbreak of VD cases in his emergency department. All the old folks were coming in with the same complaint, “Doctor, [...]

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Classic

 This isn’t news, but I came across this classic sex education PSA and I couldn’t resist posting it here.

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Bottles Bottles Everywhere

The Centre for Policy Alternatives has recently published  Inside the Bottle: Exposing the Bottled Water Industry by Tony Cark who aims his criticisms  at the four water bottling giants, Nestlé, Coca Cola, Pepsi and Danone. He says,
Although the various flitering processes used by the Big-Four take impurities out of the water, studies have shown that niether spring [...]

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Joel Walker, MD

If I ever need a psychiatrist, I will give Dr. Joel Walker a call. If I’m in no condition to call him, please call him for me.
Dr Walker is also a photographer and has combined his two vocations to produce some heart-stopping human stories and images. His latest work is a website entitled Portraits of the [...]

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