Preventing Diabetes
Diabetes is a serious, permanent condition that affects the body's ability to use sugar properly. People with diabetes either can't produce or can't respond to insulin, a hormone that allows glucose (sugar) to enter the individual cells of the body. It is estimated that diabetes affects nearly two million Canadians. Many more people may be ignoring...... >Read More
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Better Control of Chronic Illness
New research suggests ways patients can better control their life-long conditions Landmark survey reveals five steps for success
Research Triangle Park, N.C., - A landmark survey suggests that millions of Americans living with diabetes, asthma, heart disease, depression and other chronic illnesses may gain better control of their illnesses by...... >Read More
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Cancer: A Different Kind of Survivor's Story
On May 25, 2001, Doug Rae of North Vancouver, British Columbia lost his wife Judy to cancer when she was only 61-years-old. What follows is an interview that occurred just over one year later. Hopefully it will provide a point of contact and inspiration to readers who are currently going through similar circumstances.
Kevin: Describe your initial...... >Read More
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Clarence and the Cancer Cage
“You have cancer.”
Dr. Marshall quickly went on to describe the treatment program.... Clarence only heard the diagnosis. The day he feared since his mother’s death had finally arrived. The predator that stalked him mentally now claimed its victim physically. It was real.
This was the day he officially became a cancer patient. All those...... >Read More
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Prostate Cancer: The Preventable Killer
A man's prostate is not exactly a subject anyone gets a thrill out of thinking or talking about. Read on anyway, because when it comes to a man's prostate, a lack of information can be hazardous to his health. Caught early enough, there's a better than 90 percent cure rate for prostate cancer.
First, medical facts 101
The prostate is a male...... >Read More
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Increased Cancer Rates for Seniors
Living longer may not be all that it is cracked up to be.
A report published in Cancer (May 2002), a publication of the American Cancer Society, used census information and current statistics on cancer incidence rates to project future cancer rates. The good news: cancer rates have declined steadily since 1973. The bad news: cancer rates for those...... >Read More
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A Whole New Perspective
My husband and I worked in ministry overseas for 25 years. Once we lived in a country where our house was robbed five times. I always felt anger, fear and insecurity because someone had been in my home without my permission and took many favorite things.
Cancer came like that – without my permission. It introduced vulnerability and weakness...... >Read More
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Would You Give up Your Nest Egg for a Child?
Eric and Tina were retired and quite happy with the way things... >more
A Difficult Decision
The decision to place a loved one in an assisted living facility... >more
What Do You Fear?
