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Why don’t we care more about people with a high...

Billions of dollars are being spent on tests to investigate people at high risk for cancers and nothing is done to investigate people for high risk of heart attack (and...

Why don’t we care more about people with a high...

Billions of dollars are being spent on tests to investigate people at high risk for cancers and nothing is done to investigate people for high risk of heart attack (and...

Health literacy: Informed decisions lead to goo...

Agencies raising money to fight cancer are more successful than those fighting heart disease. However, most Canadians will end up with heart disease rather than cancer. Over the past 50...

Health literacy: Informed decisions lead to goo...

Agencies raising money to fight cancer are more successful than those fighting heart disease. However, most Canadians will end up with heart disease rather than cancer. Over the past 50...

Obesity: The disease that dares not say its name

The recent study showing a group of “Biggest Losers” putting all of their weight back on has received plenty of publicity.  The problem?  They are adults who were all doomed...

Obesity: The disease that dares not say its name

The recent study showing a group of “Biggest Losers” putting all of their weight back on has received plenty of publicity.  The problem?  They are adults who were all doomed...

Heart Niagara Continues to Educate Students on ...

The child is father of the Man – William Wordsworth Remember in the movie Groundhog Day Bill Murray relives the same day over and over ? Well, Heart Month seems just the same, as...

Heart Niagara Continues to Educate Students on ...

The child is father of the Man – William Wordsworth Remember in the movie Groundhog Day Bill Murray relives the same day over and over ? Well, Heart Month seems just the same, as...

Childhood Obesity

  Childhood obesity is an increasing social concern. No one denies this. Most studies have shown that up to one third of all adolescents have a weight problem. Many suggest...

Childhood Obesity

  Childhood obesity is an increasing social concern. No one denies this. Most studies have shown that up to one third of all adolescents have a weight problem. Many suggest...

The Evolution of Heart Disease

  Heart attacks and strokes cost Canadians 20 billion dollars a year. Yet this is a relatively recent phenomenon. Prior to the First World War, having heart attacks and strokes...

The Evolution of Heart Disease

  Heart attacks and strokes cost Canadians 20 billion dollars a year. Yet this is a relatively recent phenomenon. Prior to the First World War, having heart attacks and strokes...