House Calls, #966, April 13, 2025: Exercising your memory

An interesting study that showed how the brain’s hippocampus, responsible for memory processing, grows in response to exercise.

Original research article here.

The Ontario Government’s proposal to provide medical services to people without a family doctor is ambitious and does not answer where they will get the family doctors and nurse practitioners to staff them.

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