Lifestyle

Weight loss alone can treat type 2 diabetes effectively but not many actually achieve it: study
Researchers emphasized that the earlier the weight loss was achieved, the more likely the patient was to see normal blood glucose levels over the years.
‘Risky play’ can be good for kids, pediatricians say in new guidance
While it can be scary for parents to allow risk into their kids’ lives, the Canadian Paediatric Society says this sort of play is crucial for children’s mental, social and physical development.

Doctors Manitoba launches winter version of Getting Healthy challenge

The challenge is open to Manitobans with a grand prize of six months of free groceries.
A TikTok ‘expert’ says you have PTSD—but do you? Here's what a real expert says

Let's set the record straight on social media's casual and often inaccurate portrayal of post-traumatic stress disorder, and its questionable suggested interventions.
What’s the best diet for healthy sleep? A nutritional epidemiologist explains what food choices will help you get more restful zzzs

More and more evidence shows that overall dietary patterns can affect sleep quality and contribute to insomnia.
Five tips to help you prescribe first-line hormone therapy with confidence

Many family doctors are still reluctant to prescribe hormonal therapy to treat menopausal symptoms. In the opinion of two obstetrician-gynecologists, however, there is no reason to hesitate.
Dolce far niente

Medicine is a draining job. On holiday, the author embraced an Italian phrase and spent days doing nothing and discovering the beauty and wonder in the simplicity of idle moments.
What happens to your liver when you quit alcohol

A hepatologist outlines what actually happens to this organ when you lay off the sauce, even just for a few weeks.
Quit

Physicians need to learn to balance their grit and quit ratio, kind of like the gas and the brake pedal.
Dr. I.M. Canuck—the perfect Canadian MD?

Dr. Ted Jablonski constructs a 'super' Canadian doctors from the skills each province exemplifies most strongly.

Weight loss alone can treat type 2 diabetes effectively but not many actually achieve it: study

‘Risky play’ can be good for kids, pediatricians say in new guidance

Doctors Manitoba launches winter version of Getting Healthy challenge

A TikTok ‘expert’ says you have PTSD—but do you? Here's what a real expert says

What’s the best diet for healthy sleep? A nutritional epidemiologist explains what food choices will help you get more restful zzzs

Five tips to help you prescribe first-line hormone therapy with confidence

Dolce far niente

What happens to your liver when you quit alcohol

Quit

Dr. I.M. Canuck—the perfect Canadian MD?