Health

“A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill, if you don’t eat it,” said Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937.

Dear Dr. Roach: Can you tell me about hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia? My fingers bleed constantly. One doctor told me just to keep a bandage over them. Others said they could not treat me. H.L.M.

TORONTO - A team of researchers is questioning the findings of a highly publicized study that claimed bedside EEG testing showed evidence of conscious awareness in three patients diagnosed as being in a vegetative state.

TORONTO - Health Canada has updated the labelling for commonly prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins to warn users they may be at a small increased risk of developing diabetes.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A new strain of stomach bug sweeping the globe is taking over in the U.S., health officials say. Since September, more than 140 outbreaks in the U.S. have been caused by the new Sydney strain of norovirus.

SANTA ANA, California —It’s a new year, and you want to transform that body of yours. It’s a natural instinct. It’s an instinct that the owners of fitness centres anticipate.

NEW YORK — Doonya, which combines high-energy aerobics and conditioning with the hip-swaying, arm-swirling exuberance of Indian folk, pop and classical dance, is a Bollywood-based workout that experts say can be fun and effective.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 64-year-old woman who goes every year for an annual gynecologist visit, and I have always had a yearly Pap smear.

Smoke like a man, die like a man. U.S.

TORONTO - Leading influenza scientists have ended a self-imposed moratorium on research into what it might take to make bird flu viruses transmissible among humans.