Our bodies are just trillions of cells stuck together, and these cells are integrated into communities forming our organs. Your brain, heart, blood, kidneys, lungs, pancreas and skeleton are all specialized cellular systems. What do they need to be healthy? If a group of heart muscle cells are deprived of oxygen or glucose because of a clotted artery, they die
Read moreThe entomologist E.O. Wilson, who died recently, wrote back in 1998 “We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.” The situation today is even more extreme as our attention
Read moreThe winter games in Beijing are likely to be over by the time you read this. The games originated in Greece millennia ago and coincided with a festival honoring Zeus. They were revived in Athens in 1896 with contestants from 12 nations. World wars prevented holding them in 1916, 1940 and 1944. The Tokyo 2020 event was postponed a year
Read moreBy Dr. Stephen Bezruchka January 20, 2022 David Zakus asked me if I would do a blog for the PHW. I’ve known David from his days in Edmonton at the University of Alberta and follow the Weekly every Thursday. Some background about me and what I hope to cover, this being my first blog. I was born in Toronto and
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