Why you should stretch more often than before and after exercise — especially nowadays
Stretching doesn’t get the respect it deserves. Most exercisers absent-mindedly engage in just a few minutes of it before or after a workout, which...
UK Government backs research on the link between nature and mental health
Seven centres will test how to support patients using green activities, including walking and cycling and tree planting
Each site, which will receive a share of...
The health hazard of Jewellery
We wear our jewellery to express our personality at the moment. We imbue ourselves with emotional importance as our bling often symbolizes or memorializes...
A Made-in-Canada Solution to the Coronavirus Outbreak?
Fifteen years ago, a medical researcher named Michel Chrétien and his longtime collaborator Majambu Mbikay, a Congolese scientist, unhatched a theory in their Montreal...
Resetting the immune system, genius or too radical by Dr. Omar Morales
A radical treatment for autoimmune multiple sclerosis has stopped the disease in more than 70% of the cases. However, it is not risk-free for...
Deep Conscious Breathing: Dr. Barun Gorain
It is well known that deep-breathing exercises increase our body’s oxygen intake and bring the vital life-force into our body. About 90% of our...
Don’t underestimate the winter blues
If you're feeling down and uninspired right now, you're not alone. The winter blues -- including its most severe form, Seasonal Affective Disorder, or...
Thousands of women say they have a mysterious ‘breast-implant illness.
After years of women sharing their scary symptoms, a handful of plastic surgeons have decided to refuse putting breast implants in patients.
Thousands of...
Essential oils demonstration provides natural health solutions
With an increasing emphasis on improving personal health, some individuals have sought alternatives for prescription supplements. Essential oils, composed of compounds extracted from plants,...
Potentially toxic chemicals from LCDs in nearly half of household dust samples tested: USask-led...
The international research team, led by USask environmental toxicologist John Giesy, is sounding the alarm about liquid crystal monomers—the chemical building blocks of everything from flat...