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Living Healthy

Stand-up comedian Marc Sauvé.

High Cancer rates on the East Coast

  • By Darcy Rhyno
  • Photography By Lianne Feltmate
  • Header photo by Canadian Cancer Society
Around the time stand-up comedian Marc Sauvé turned 40, he discovered a lump near his shoulder blade. “It was super itchy,” he recalls. “It drove me crazy.” At...

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Dr. Yang Gu is the director of the oral pathology clinic at the faculty of dentistry, Dalhousie University in Halifax.

Are you overly sensitive

  • By Donalee Moulton
  • Photography By Faculty of Dentistry, Dalhousie University
  • Header photo by Bigstock/New Africa
You’ve been looking forward to that heaping dish of chocolate mint fudge ice cream – and anticipation is about to become reality. But instead of saying, “Oh,...
Van Morrison, an exuberant 11-year-old who lives with spinal muscular atrophy, Type 2.

Patient's Story: Game Changer

  • By Joanie Veitch
  • Photography By Alec MacAulay
At six months of age, Van Bernard’s parents noticed he wasn’t meeting typical gross motor skills milestones. He could sit unattended, but he had to be...

Nutrition: Taking the scale out

  • By Maureen Tilley, PDt.
  • Photography By Bigstock/oxanakot
  • Header photo by TeroVesalainen
How do you define health? For many people, a ‘healthy’ weight comes top of mind. We live in a very weight-focused society driven by many factors, including society...
Architect rendering of the front of Hospice Halifax, which is due to open in the spring of 2019.

Healthy Happenings Winter 2018

  • By Jodi DeLong
  • Photography By Hospice Halifax
  • Header photo by Mona Ghiz
The weather was perfect and it was a record-breaking year for the QE2 Foundation’s fourth annual Ride for Cancer on September 29th. More than 550 cyclists...
Emma Logan with used hearing aids destined to help people in the Dominican Republic.

Hearing for all

  • By Jodi DeLong
  • Header photo by Bigstock/edwardolive/dolgachov
Emma Logan is a young woman on a mission. A native of Halifax, NS, Emma lost her ability to hear at the age of 13 months after a bout of meningitis, and has...
Susan Hoover

What is Homeopathy Anyway?

  • By Darcy Rhyno
  • Header photo by iStock/vgajic
“It was a miracle cure,” says Susan Hoover about a homeopathic treatment for poison ivy. Several decades ago, the Nova Scotian had what she called an extreme...

  • By Donalee Moulton
  • Photography By Bigstock/digitalista
If you find it difficult to swallow, your tongue sticks to the roof of your mouth, and your lips form a single impenetrable line, you may have dry mouth. You...

  • By Donalee Moulton
  • Photography By Bigstock/REDPIXEL.PL
  • Header photo by Bigstock/jhandersen
More and more Atlantic Canadians are turning to internet shopping to fill their kitchen cupboards, check off the items on their holiday shopping list, and...
Dr. Shannon MacPhee is the chief at the IWK Health Centre’s emergency department and also chief of pediatric emergency medicine.

  • By Jodi DeLong
  • Photography By Emergency Department, IWK Health Centre
  • Header photo by Bigstock/cendeced
It’s a frightening scenario. Your toddler, who has been active all day, suddenly seems very drowsy—much more drowsy than usual. She seems dizzy, and to be...
Jennifer Sarault with her two daughters. “I want all women to know post-partum depression is real and you don’t have to try to cope alone.”

  • By Jodi DeLong
  • Photography By Jennifer Sarault
  • Header photo by iStock/ Highwaystarz-Photography
Young mother Jennifer Sarault remembers what happened like it was yesterday. “I stood there holding my newborn little girl I had dreamed about and wanted for...
Dr. Aaron Burry, director of professional affairs with the Canadian Dental Association in Ottawa.

  • By Donalee Moulton
  • Header photo by iStock/hazemmkamal
While there are fewer cigarette smokers today than even a decade ago, the use of e-cigarettes continues to climb. It is too early to understand the health...

  • By Joanie Veitch
  • Photography By Jodi DeLong
  • Header photo by Bigstock/Dragon Images
The first thing Nita Whitehead noticed was that it was getting harder and harder to drive at night. Then the sun started hurting her eyes. Nita knew her...

  • By Maureen Tilley
  • Photography By Bigstock/sewcream
Yet another diet is in the limelight. Fat has risen to the top, protein has stepped down and carbohydrates remain on the outs. This is the focus of a weight loss...
David Betts of Canaan, NS, was diagnosed with Lyme disease two years ago.

  • By Sandra Phinney
  • Photography By Rebecca Betts
  • Header photo by Bigstock/dolgachov
Two years ago, on a balmy July morning, David Betts was playing golf with friends at Brudenell River Golf Course in Prince Edward Island. “By the third hole I...
Dental radiography (ortopanoramica). Digital X-ray teeth scan.

  • By Donalee Moulton
  • Photography By iStock/Cylonphoto
  • Header photo by Bigstock/dolgachov
At your next dental check-up, your dentist may recommend X-rays. Those reveal important information about your oral health—safely.
Donna Gillespie’s bout of frozen shoulder was resolved after two months of acupuncture.

  • By Joanie Veitch
  • Photography By Jackson Productions Inc.
  • Header photo by Jackson Productions Inc.
After a shoulder injury sent her to hospital in excruciating pain, Donna Gillespie was desperate for relief but wary of resorting to pain medication, as she...