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Sunday House Call #295, March 14, 2010
Sunday House Call #295, March 14, 2010 My comment on this story about alleged claims of adverse effects from Yaz/Yasmin birth control pills. Plus listener questions about adverse side effects of medications, diabetes, abdominal pain, chancre sores, nose bleeds, and pseudo human growth hormone. [display_podcast]
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StatsCan study outlines the scope of hypertension in Canada
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for February 18, 2010 [display_podcast] Source: One in five Canadians has high blood pressure
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Sunday House Call #289, November 8, 2009
Interview with Dr. Richard Béliveau It seems as a society we are sleepwalking towards a myriad of preventable diseases. I say this because after reading another of Dr. Richard Béliveau’s masterful books on how our lifestyle, eating habits, and food choices are intricately linked with our physical, emotional and spiritual health, the evidence is compelling.…
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Exercise has postive effects controlling diabetes
Exercise is recommended as part of a broad-based treatment program for people with diabetes. At issue is what type of exercise produces the greatest results, how many times per week the person should engage in this activity and for what length of time? A new study from the University of Calgary published in the September…
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New understanding behind the mechanism of diabetes
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), the University of Calgary and The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine have found a new mechanism that is directly involved in the pathophysiology of diabetes. This new insight into the mechanism of diabetes has advanced possible new treatment strategies, with the potential as seen in animal trials…
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Transplanting insulin producing cells or islet cells into people with type 1 diabetes
About 10 to 15 million people around the world have type 1 diabetes and require insulin to make up for the pancreas’ inability to produce enough for the body’s use. In the September 28, 2006 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine researchers from the University of Alberta studied how the clinical outcomes of…
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Foods That Fight Cancer: Preventing Cancer Through Diet
There are many claims being made about the positive health benefits of vitamins, minerals and other supplements. However, current research is showing that less publicly-recognized phytochemnicals in the foods we eat can play a significant role in cancer prevention and overall health; literally a non-toxic version of chemotherapy. Our current Western diets seem to have…
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Great variety of drugs helps treatment of diabetics
Last week’s column outlined how type 2 diabetes develops and causes harm: the liver produces too much sugar, the muscle, liver and fat cells poorly absorb sugar because they are less responsive to insulin and the insulin producing beta-cells of the pancreas eventually burn out.