Life

Dear Dr. Roach: A few years ago, I was diagnosed with ischemic colitis after running a half-marathon. My doctor advised me not to run more than 15 kilometres at a time.

Colour bleed be damned. There’s a red lipstick for everybody nowadays. You know how celebrity beauty guru Ted Gibson found that out? “My mother has just now been wearing red lipstick since I turned her onto it over the last two years.

Dear Dr. Roach: It would be helpful if you described some of the warning signs/symptoms of a bad hip that requires replacement. I now know that such a condition does not necessarily announce itself with chronic severe pain in the hip.

Still a teenager, Kyle McConkey has already endured two transplants in his ongoing battle with leukemia. Now his Tsawwassen family are pinning their hopes on a last-ditch experimental treatment available only in Seattle.

In the black of night, the gas cloud was almost invisible as it engulfed the sleeping shantytowns. It curled through open windows and gaps in ramshackle walls. By sunrise, thousands had suffered a slow, choking death.

Heart failure is the fastest growing cause of heart disease in North America. What’s ironic is that the medication prescribed to prevent heart problems may be causing weakened hearts and sapping energy from our 100 trillion cells.

Dear Eric: When I was growing up, my mother (of Ukrainian descent) made wonderful cabbage rolls, but did not use a meat filling, just rice. I have looked at recipes and all that I’ve found contain meat.

Saying “thank you” is often the first lesson in manners parents teach their children. Science now shows the benefits of those words flow both ways.

Scientists have demonstrated that boys (well, men) really do have cooties (a simplified term for bacteria) that can spread to girls (OK, women) by kissing them.

TORONTO — Doctors are increasingly turning to brain-stimulation therapy, a non-invasive procedure that uses electromagnetic energy, to treat severe depression that doesn’t respond to standard antidepressant medications and psychotherapy.