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Bariatric surgery
A story in the paper today (March 27th/12) http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Weight+loss+surgery+beats+diabetes/6363540/story.html says that batriatric surgery did a better job controlling diabetes...
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What every fat, diabetic 50-year-old needs.
This picture, which has been circulating all over the internet, has struck a cord with runners. And while the image needs little to accompany it, there is an interesting back story to the photo which...
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Paula Deen’s weightloss becomes a family affair
Paula Deen had to make significant lifestyle changes when she was diagnosed with diabetes awhile back. She’s lost 40 pounds but what’s even better is that her whole family (both sons and her...
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Boomers vs their parents. Which generation is healthier?
Baby boomers live longer, but aren’t as healthy as their parents, stated an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association – Internal Medicine (JAMA). The report comes from a...
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Watch your sugar…it can change your life!
I loved the enthusiasm of Rob Gale, the guy I wrote about today http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/June+Thompson+bitter+truth+about+sugar/8718760/story.html after feeling pretty rotten for awhile it...
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Google allies with Novartis’s Alcon for smart contact lenses
Google Inc. gained an ally to develop smart contact lenses with embedded electronics to improve vision and monitor health by teaming up with Swiss drug company Novartis AG. Novartis’s Alcon unit will...
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Age-related degenerative diseases pose unique challenge
MONTREAL — When geriatrician Ruby Friedman was in medical school, patients with congestive heart failure were not known to survive beyond six months, maybe a year. “But conditions that used to be fatal...
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Doug Camilli: House of Cards goes punk: Pussy Riot to make an appearance
Waiting impatiently for “season” three of House of Cards? Me too, even more now that we know members of the Russian protest/punk/feminist band Pussy Riot will appear in it. The show is filming in...
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Inside the CFL: Alouettes' Scott Paxson has learned to live with diabetes
He was a 15-year-old high school football player in Philadelphia, in shape although recovering from a knee injury. Scott Paxson couldn’t understand why he urinated so frequently — 20 times a day — and...
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The Right Chemistry: Nonsensical 'cures' flood our inboxes
Most of my mornings start off the same way. Check email! It takes a few minutes to delete the offers to repay me royally for helping a stranded tourist who has been robbed in some foreign country, the...
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The Right Chemistry: With selective data, it's possible to make a case in...
I have been writing about scientific issues for a very long time. From the beginning my guiding light has been quite simple. Follow the evidence. Unfortunately doing that isn’t so simple. Rarely is the...
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More doctors are prescribing physical activity
Eat less, move more. That’s the best antidote to “lifestyle diseases” filling our hospitals around the world, said Jean-Pierre Després, professor in the kinesiology division of the department of social...
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Breakthrough allows Type I diabetics to live without insulin injections
In a Quebec first, a team of physicians at the McGill University Health Centre has infused a woman with Type I diabetes with insulin-producing cells, avoiding the need for a potentially risky...
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Opinion: It shouldn’t matter where you go to school, but for kids with...
Summer is a time to put thoughts of school aside, but some families are already worrying about September. For parents of kids with diabetes, the beginning of each new school year brings not only the...
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MUHC struggling with decrease in dialysis services
Despite the aging of Quebec’s population and the expected increase in demand for dialysis for kidney patients, the McGill University Health Centre is struggling with a decrease in its number of...
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Applause: Flash mob at Jewish General Hospital for World Diabetes Day
World Diabetes Day was marked on Nov. 14 at the Jewish General Hospital with a special kind of flash mob. It was organized by diabetes educators from the division of endocrinology at the hospital, a...
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Diabetes, cancer cases to soar in Quebec in coming decade: study
A new study predicts dramatic increases in the number of Quebecers who will develop chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes by 2030 as the population ages — a disease burden that will tax the...
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Opinion: Answering the difficult questions about drug safety
The Hippocatic oath says “I will use medicine to help the sick … but never with a view to injury.” That poses a unique problem for physicians because all medications have the power to heal and the...
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