The Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the world. It is a highly contagious STD that can be passed between partners even with the use of condoms or without actual penetration. Estimates show that approximately 75 percent of Canadians will be infected with at least one of the four [...]

Very little scares me more than the threat of childhood sexual abuse.Personally, I have very strong feelings about what I would like to do to the abusers: none of the possible scenarios are pleasant. While I try very hard to remember that I do not know the personal history of the abuser, I also know [...]

“I’m still hot, only now it comes in flashes”

An Uncertain Time

I was in my late forties when I first began experiencing what I would soon learn to be perimenopause—the phase before menopause actually takes place. In perimenopause, ovarian hormone production fluctuates, causing a host of symptoms. I had no sweet clue as to what was [...]

The Breast Cancer Action (BCA) group wants consumers to think about how much money is actually going to the “cure” before purchasing something with a little pink ribbon on it.

Formed in 1990 and based in San Francisco, California, BCA is a grassroots group of ordinary people who, by educating themselves on the facts and the [...]

How can you really make a difference and stay on track in 2007?
How do you get to that personal best?

I am writing this article, not on the assumption that losing weight is a good thing, but that attaining a personal best in health is. This may, for some, include losing weight, or being active in [...]

The first weekend in my new apartment, I broke from unpacking to sit on the deck and enjoy my small piece of the outdoors in the middle of downtown St. John’s. I discovered that a group of caterpillars had moved in too. I watched the fuzzy little guys scout out spots to settle down [...]

Daily newspapers and other news media are main sources of health information for the general public. Intended as a forum for opinion and debate, the news media play an important role in determining not only what health issues make it on the public and political agenda, but how the public perceives these issues.

Communications professional Susan [...]

With escalating controversy in the media regarding cancer and prevention, why is it that Canadian women still have relatively no idea how to lower their cancer risks? There is a lot of advise on what can increase cancer rates (some legit, and some not) circulating our world: on TV, in the newspapers, and all over [...]

I don’t leave my house much these days. If I do, it’s quite a production.

I haven’t lost use of my limbs or become an agoraphobe; I’m a new mom. And getting my baby boy and me out of the house to enjoy the gentle breezes takes the tactical skills of a four-star general.

Used to [...]

When I began my career in law enforcement, I had no idea that one day I would become a specialist in the area of family violence. It all started in the fall of 1984, when I graduated from the Atlantic Police Academy at Holland College in Charlottetown with a Corrections Diploma, and started working in [...]