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Where do babies come from?

I recently became the honorary great-grandfather to a baby boy, and his mom let me hold this beautiful new infant in my arms. The beauty of new life—the well-formed tiny hands and feet and the prospects for this new... Read More

Sexual intercourse: There’s more than ejaculation to this tango

Tango is more than a dance. It is the language of romance. To tango is to learn how to love, how to communicate in a relationship.  One goal of a sexual relationship is to have pleasurable experiences, and the... Read More

Now hear this: World Hearing Day, Friday, 3 March 2023

I had frequent ear infections as a child of 6 and 7 years of age in the early 1930s. As was the practice of the day in my native Hungary, the otolaryngologist specialist arrived on his bicycle to our apartment, carrying... Read More

Why can’t humans fly?

While visiting the Canadian Museum of Flight in Langley, I saw extensive displays of aircraft, some from the First World War, some from the Second World War, and even more from recent times, including modern fighter... Read More

Making menstrual hygiene products safer

Worldwide at any one time, some 300 million women experience menstrual periods and some vexation about related hygiene management. What brought this to my attention was a report in a recent issue of the Economist... Read More

Basic health literacy: Canada is doing poorly

Creating health awareness and promotional events is a core function of public health as they support governments, communities, and individuals to cope with and address health challenges. In 1974 Dr S.K. Simonds put... Read More

Loneliness in the life of the isolated elderly

It is of major concern that prolonged loneliness in assisted-living situations may lead to disorders of the immune system and cause cardiovascular disorders, weight gain, anxiety, depression, cognitive decline, even... Read More

Building blocks of our body

I recently finished reading a book by Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Song of the Cell. Actually, it is not quite true that I’ve finished reading it, I find myself going back and back to reread how cells in the body “... Read More

Wishing to hasten death

In 2021, the Canadian government brought in Bill C-7: An Act to Amend the Criminal Code (Medical Assistance in Dying), expanding the right to seek medical assistance in dying (MAID) to Canadians who aren’t near death... Read More

Lifelong lung health

The BC Lung Foundation’s Bicycle Trek 2022, exploring the beautiful and fresh-air-filled Fraser Valley, was supposed to take place 10–11 September 2022. It was planned as a 200 km ride—part fundraiser, part weekend... Read More