Category: Lifestyle

If you are a new mother with diabetes, you might have concerns about whether you can breastfeed your baby or not. Well, the good news is that you can. Breast milk is proven to be the ultimate source of nutrition for the baby to kick start a healthy life. According to the American Diabetes Association, […]

Teenage boys are just as likely to be victims of cyberbullying as teenage girls, prompting a timely reminder for parents to be on top of internet usage and access. A recent study conducted by Griffith University academics looked at the conditional effects of parental internet supervision on online victimization for early adolescent boys. School of […]

How do Canadian children with disabilities and their families experience playgrounds? What about adjacent areas such as parking lots and pathways? How can educators and rehabilitation specialists use playground spaces? These are some of the topics explored by Kelly Arbour-Nicitopoulos, an associate professor studying disability and physical activity in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of […]

Children and adolescents living with glaucoma develop a high level of emotional and social resilience to cope with this rare chronic eye condition, a new Flinders University study reveals. However, more can be done with researchers examining feedback from 18 young people about the challenges, both visual and non-visual, caused by childhood glaucoma. Giving their […]

At a time when health care providers have gone all in on telemedicine, Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer, surprised Wall Street in late July when it announced it would acquire 1Life Healthcare Inc., which runs the subscription-based One Medical primary-care service, for $3.9 billion. Investors and market watchers noted Amazon’s less-than-stellar forays into health […]

When he was 19 years old, Cecilio “Pepe” Vega was shot in the leg while sitting on his deck playing cards. With his back to the scene, he never saw the passing driver who attacked him that day in New Haven in 1989. On his way to the hospital, he says a police officer pulled […]

With increased age comes the increased risk to develop cancer or dementia. Both conditions share similar risk factors such as hypertension and diabetes. Many cancer patients experience cognitive impairment from cancer and its treatments with symptoms similar to dementia. But are these only similarities, or does a cancer diagnosis predispose patients to developing dementia? Prior […]