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Dr. Barry Dworkin

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  • Elliot Lake tragedy: How long can someone survive without water?

    June 27, 2012

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 27, 2012 [display_podcast]  

  • Another reason to give the precautionary principle the boot

    June 26, 2012

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 26, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Outrage after girls suffer intense sunburn during field trip  

  • Hockey body checks for 11 and 12 year-olds: just use a Mack truck and be done with it

    June 25, 2012

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 25, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Secret ballot sees Calgary Hockey’s pee wee body checking ban defeated  

  • Livestock antibiotic use increases risk of drug-resistant bacteria

    June 22, 2012

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 22, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Avoiding antibiotics in meat getting harder: report

  • Medical records app does not take advantage of available mobile platform interface technology

    June 21, 2012

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 21, 2012 Source: This morning seven of Canada’s leading health care organizations have launched a free new app for IPhones and IPads for Canadian patients called MyMedRec.   The purpose of the new tool is to help Canadians use their medications safely and appropriately and is aimed at empowering the growing…

  • Evidenced-based food claims

    June 19, 2012

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 19, 2012 [display_podcast] Source: Researchers devise ‘healthiest meal ever’  

  • Mental health's relationship to obesity risk

    June 18, 2012

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 18, 2012   [display_podcast]   Source: Could poor mental health be driving Canada’s obesity epidemic?

  • Radiologists are not just image consultants

    June 17, 2012

    An interview with Dr. David Jacobs,  a radiologist at Humber River Regional Hospital, to discuss what kind of work Radiologists actually do and how the proposed provincial cuts could affect their services.

  • Stem cells used to create new vein for transplant

    June 15, 2012

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 15, 2012   [display_podcast]   Source: Vein grown from girl’s own stem cells transplanted Reference: Successful transplantation of tissue-engineered vein, The Lancet

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