Meditation class intended to relieve stress, prevent burnout: The University of Ottawa's gruelling medical school curriculum — which helps prepare students for an even more gruelling career — now includes mandatory meditation sessions.
Political leaders agree that the only way to improve the health of our aging population is through a integrated health system, designed to treat the whole person. This issue was discussed at length at the recent forum titled ‘Integrated Health Care 2.0’, hosted by the Vancouver board of trade. Read the full Vancouver Sun article […]
The month of November has been recoined by some as Movember, as a fund-raising strategy for prostate cancer awareness. Although this is seemingly a valuable endeavour, it highlights some major flaws in cancer funding. Despite a steady increase in the number of diagnoses over the past 20 years, deaths from prostate cancer have stayed quite […]
The link can no longer be ignored. A new study from the University of Copenhagen reviewed cases of one million Danish women over 13 years, and found higher rates of depression in those who used oral contraceptives. JAMA Psychiatry. 2016;73(11):1154-1162 – http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2552796 An article published in The Guardian
Mindfulness meditation training interventions have been shown to improve markers of health, however the underlying neurobiological mechanisms have yet to be understood. According to initial research, mindfulness meditation may increase default mode network (DMN) resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) with regions important in top-down executive control (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex [dlPFC]. In this study, researchers tested whether […]
According to an Annals of Internal Medicine study, electroacupuncture improves symptoms of chronic constipation. More than 1000 patients with chronic and severe functional constipation were randomized to receive 28 sessions of either electroacupuncture or sham acupuncture. The electroacupuncture group had needles inserted 30–70 mm deep into three acupoints. Two of these points were electrically stimulated. In the […]
The largest group of doctors in the United States has issued new recommendations on the use and exposure to cellular telephone in response to a US National Toxicology Program (NTP) study. The results found that exposure to wireless radiation significantly increased the prevalence of highly malignant cardiac and brain tumors in rodents. The chair of […]
On August 23, 2016, a study titled ‘Menopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer: what is the true size of the increased risk?’ was published in Br J Cancer. 2016 Aug 23;115(5):607-15 This data is not surprising, since we have long known of the link between breast cancer and the intake of synthetic hormone replacement therapy. […]
Using of IgG “food-sensitivity” testing By the Investigations Committee of the CMQ In recent years, some laboratories have been offering specific dose immunoglobulin G “food-sensitivity". In Canada, laboratories offer this test under various trade names, including Hemocode ™, Imupro®, RSA FST ™ and Genarrayt®. Laboratories that are promoting these tests present scientific data that appears […]
An “Almost Black-Tie” dinner event with a prize of $250,000 for the Canadian who has most contributed to CAM in the last 2 years. This will be followed the next day by a public colloquium on “Traditional Chinese Medicine & the Microbiome: A Modern Context for an Ancient Practice”, exploring the emerging research and its […]
