Lifelines in the health care maze

Hyperventilating and terrified as never before, single mom Leanne Whitfield composed herself just long enough to deliver the devastating news about her...

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• Five-part series: Navigating the health care maze
• The father of patient navigation
• Navigating the health care maze
• Why this series is important
• The benefits to patients, health care providers and the health care system
• What are patient navigators?
• Blog: Pamela Fayerman's Medicine Matters

B.C.-developed strategy to combat HIV spread in China

The Chinese government has announced it will use a treatment strategy developed in B.C. to combat the spread of HIV and AIDS in China.

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Gene sequencing, social networking help stop B.C. tuberculosis outbreak

B.C. scientists used DNA gene sequencing and social networking surveys to track a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak that spread when drug addicts got together...

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• Blog: Pamela Fayerman's Medicine Matters

Time's up: Take heed of food and product expiry dates

Expiry. Best before. Packaged on. If you’ve got a world-class headache or a stomach grumbling for something to fill it, you may be tempted to ignore those...

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• Food stuff: A safer-eating website
• China targets leather protein in new food concern
• Survey suggests Canadians deluding themselves about their health
• Mom goes global with baby food containers
• Nutrition experts call for health product regulatory overhaul
• Ottawa slow to address 'gender-bending' chemicals: Critics

Quality eating requires positive nutrition

A great mentor taught me to focus on positive nutrition rather than negative. When looking at a label, don’t ask what the food lacks — such as trans fat...

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• Flush the weight off by staying hydrated
• Until vegetables dominate meal plates, weight loss will be slow
• Get fired up: Take the first step toward a healthy lifestyle
• Details in the dairy
• Bon egg, bad egg: the heart risk debate

Tae Bo fitness workout enters second act

Tae Bo, the lean, mean cardio workout with a martial arts kick that sparked a fitness craze in the late 1990's, is back: still lean, still mean, just ...

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• When getting fit takes an online village
• Qigong: Mindful movement made in China
• Oprah's trainer puts mind over body matters
• For fitness success, stick to a plan
• Gyms offer circus spins, lovelorn lunges

Ancient Inca grain is new health food darling

Grown high in the Andes for millennia, a grain the Incas so prized they deemed it sacred has become a global star and is now being touted as the health...

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• A new look at quinoa and other old grains
• Against the grain: alternatives to whole wheat
• Keen on quinoa
• Quinoa: versatile superfood
• When choosing a gluten-free diet

Study seeks to dispel stress myth in IVF treatment

Women trying to get pregnant via IVF or other assisted reproduction techniques do not reduce their chances of success if they are emotionally distressed...

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• Freezing the tick tick tock of the biological clock
• Send in the clowns to boost IVF success?
• Odds of an IVF baby? There's an app for that
• So how much does IVF cost, anyway?
• Quebec in vitro fertilization program proves almost too popular

Oral sex linked to cancer risk

U.S. scientists have said there is strong evidence linking oral sex to cancer, and urged more study of how human papillomaviruses may be to blame for ...

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• Study suggests HPV vaccine is also effective on males
• Circumcision helps stop wart virus, study finds
• Give HPV shots to boys, too, women MDs urge
• Oral sex, STDs causing increase in oral cancers
• Virus that causes genital warts linked to oral cancer: Study
• Good oral care protects far more than your teeth

China aims to bring AIDS spread under control by 2020

China hopes to more or less bring the spread of AIDS under control by 2020, but faces an uphill task do to so due in part to ignorance and poor policy...

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• Stigma hampers Afghan fight against AIDS
• Australia clean-needle program keeping HIV at bay
• People with HIV have high stroke risk: Study
• S.Africa "whoonga" is new threat to HIV patients
• AIDS gel prevents infection in monkeys
• New kind of HIV drug stalls infection in trial
• Stem cell transplant 'cures' HIV: Study