Top five health apps to help with your New Year’s resolutions
Dr. Deborah Mechanic lists the top five health apps to help you achieve your New Year’s resolutions.
Healthy Aging: Take stock of yourself with a personal year-end review
Dr. Vivien Brown gives you steps on how to take care of yourself in the new year.
Married with kids: Finding dignity in dementia
Lauren Kramer looks back on her father’s life.
Measles spike prompts letters from rabbis, government
In the wake of measles outbreaks in Jewish communities in Israel, New York and New Jersey, two separate letters were sent out to parents of students who attend Jewish day schools in Toronto.
Navigating the system to get the most out of your health care
“Education in health situations creates confidence, including the confidence to ask questions and have one’s voice heard. Building a relationship with a health-care professional that you know and trust is a great way to create a space where you can ask these questions and get the knowledge to have your voice heard.”
Israeli, Palestinian doctors promote joint health initiative
Two doctors recently completed a North American speaking tour, to build support for Project Rozana, an international organization that works with Israelis and Palestinians to promote peace through health-care initiatives.
Canadian doctor heads Bar-Ilan medical school in Safed
The Azrieli faculty of medicine at Bar-Ilan University calls Safed home and a few weeks ago, Dr. Karl Skorecki was appointed as its dean.
Parents of preemies thank the Jewish General Hospital neonatal unit for care
Families of babies who were born prematurely and are now doing well gathered on Nov. 16 at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal for World Prematurity Day.
Making art together improves the lives of seniors: study
An innovative art program for seniors at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is having a measurable, positive impact on participants’ well-being, quality of life and, in some cases, health, according to researchers with the Jewish General Hospital.
Israeli doctor comes to Canada to discuss disaster relief
A disaster is any event that exceeds a local community’s ability to meet the demand for medical attention, and Israeli doctor Elhanan Bar-On is often one of the people who comes to help meet that demand.
