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Living Healthy

A troubling two-way street

  • By Darcy Rhyno
Links between arthritis and depression  

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Over-the-counter medications and kids

  • By Jodi DeLong
Preventing accidental overdoses from the home medicine cabinet  

Cannabis and your mouth

  • By Donalee Moulton
Some of the low points of getting high  

Healthy happenings

  • By Jodi DeLong
By Jodi DeLong   Vaping and youth The statistics are alarming. According to the Lung Association of Nova Scotia, 37 per cent of Nova Scotian students in grades...

Healthy eating 101 (revised)

  • By Maureen Tilley, PDt.
“Bean” re-thinking your meat consumption?

Baby bereavement

  • By Jodi DeLong
One of the most painful things that can happen to a family  

Pro bono comfort and care

  • By Donalee Moulton
NL dentists create and operate free dental clinic  

  • By Donalee Moulton
10 habits that can harm your teeth  

  • By P.J. Wall
The latest on radon gas

  • By Jodi DeLong
March of Dimes Canada offers help to those living with neurological issues
Stand-up comedian Marc Sauvé.

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

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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...