Is it safe to take acetaminophen daily for arthritis pain?
WEBMar 25, 2014 — He says most patients can safely consume three or even four grams of acetaminophen day-after-day for long periods. “It is when you get to six, seven or eight grams a day that you get into trouble.”. An extra-strength tablet contains 500 milligrams. “If you take two extra-strength tablets, three times a day, you are consuming a total of ...
‘Chipping away at barriers’: Nurse practitioners filling primary-care ...
WEBMar 15, 2022 — While Ontario was first out of the gate with NPs, and accepts about 225 nurses each year into primary-care NP programs, enrolment has not grown in more than a decade despite a 74 per cent increase in applicants from 2020 to 2021. Canada has only 7,910 licensed NPs (compared to more than 325,000 …
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WEBHealthy Debate’s editorial team is staffed by professionals with medical and journalistic backgrounds who make sure our coverage of health care in Canada translates what health-care insiders are seeing and thinking into articles accessible to readers from all walks of life. We’re ER doctors and dogged reporters, physicians and finicky ...
The right to die: Should MAiD apply to those whose sole condition …
WEBMay 25, 2022 — “There are good ethical reasons for giving (patients with intractable severe mental illnesses) access to MAiD: A good society ought to respect and support autonomous patients’ decision to request MAiD based on their own considered views about their experienced quality of life in so far as their suffering is caused by an intractable medical condition at the time of decision-making.
Medicine Wheel: How I use its teachings in my healing journey
WEBOct 3, 2018 — The Medicine Wheel is an ancient symbol used by some of the Native people of North and South America. I’ve learned that not all Nations use the Medicine Wheel because it can be viewed as a colonialist structure, but those who do follow it, do so according to their own teachings and what has been passed down to them through their Elders and medicine people.
‘Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always’: The importance of ...
WEBJan 25, 2021 — There is a famous line attributed to Edward Trudeau and related to health professionals, “cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.”. Where medicine falls short of addressing the full range of a disease, comfort is what remains. Comfort from the medical team but from a reliable support network and yes, other patients, too.
When bread becomes difficult to swallow. - Healthy Debate
WEBJun 8, 2020 — Patients with EoE can have a number of symptoms such as trouble swallowing, painful swallowing, feeling like food gets stuck, abdominal pain, throwing up and more, all of which have the potential to severely impact patients’ quality of life. Certain foods – bread, or meat for example – can make these symptoms worse.
There is a fifth horseman of the Apocalypse – and it is us
WEBNov 5, 2020 — The fifth horseman: That’s us. Clearly, Elton’s “four horsemen” are not controlling the human population. But something is working: While world population continues to increase – the UN projects it will reach 11 billion in 2100 – the rate of increase has dropped “from 2.2 per cent per year 50 years ago to 1.05 per cent per year,” reports Max Roser in Our World in Data.
Vaping: A valuable harm reduction tool or a public health concern ...
WEBJul 11, 2024 — As plumes of cotton candy and strawberry ice cream-scented clouds fill the air, the heated debate over vaping regulation in Canada wages on. The popularity of nicotine vapes, or e-cigarettes, continues to rise, but so too do questions of whether vape uptake is a positive sign of changing times or a new public health concern hooking a younger generation to nicotine.
Mental health and MAID: An ongoing challenge - Healthy Debate
WEBSep 8, 2021 — This conversation of mental illness and MAiD is a complex one and rightfully so. To form strict, infallible criteria for legislative purposes, we must be able to define the specific conditions of an illness, its response to treatment and overall trajectory. When considering whether one qualifies for MAiD, buzzwords like “grievous and ...