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 What's The Diagnosis?How would you like to save a life this week? After all, it's not only doctors who are involved in life or death situations. So all you have to do is remember this column.
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 Do You Want Better Sex?"How is your sex life?" I often ask patients. It's amazing how often I get the response, "Finally, someone I can trust will discuss this matter with me!" So what can be done to make the bedroom a happier place? It's important, even though good sex may be only five percent of a relationship. But I stress to patients that it's the first five percent! Besides, it can also affect physical health.
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 Unmasking black pepper's secrets as a fat fighterJournal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry A new study provides a long-sought explanation for the beneficial fat-fighting effects of black pepper. The research, published in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, pinpoints piperine -- the pungent-tasting substance that gives black pepper its characteristic taste, concluding that piperine also can block the formation of new fat cells.
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 I Could Hear The Sawing and Hammering!When does a doctor fully realize the nature of a disease? Sir William Osler, distinguished Professor of Medicine at McGill, Johns Hopkins and Oxford University, remarked that a doctor only fully understood a disease when he suffered from it himself. Having just recovered from a hip replacement operation, I couldn't agree more with Osler. So what did I learn and what did I fear?
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 Simple Advice For A Healthier Lifestyle To Help Prevent A StrokeHouston, TX, - Forty-hour work weeks, two-hour commutes, carpools, school conferences, commitments: who has time to eat healthy foods and exercise? And who can afford pricey organic, fresh foods anyway? You can, according to Randy Wright, MD and his co-author David Tabatsky. They spell it out in practical terms in The Wright Choice: Your Family's Prescription for Healthy Eating, Modern Fitness and Saving Money (Intouch Media Health Network).
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 Can A Fart Kill?Ig Nobel prizes are prestigious awards given each year at Harvard University to those engaged in strange scientific research. For instance, Canadian researchers received the award for showing that small farts, known as fast repetitive ticks (FRTs), can be lethal. But why would the Vatican receive one?
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 New treatment for prostate cancer gives 'perfect results' for nine in ten men: researchUK Telegraph
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 TA-65, Ponce de Leon's Anti-Aging PillWould Albert Einstein's genius have discovered the secret of life if he hadn't died at 76 years of age? We will never know. But for years, in an endeavour to extend life, scientists have searched for Ponce de Leon's "fountain of youth". Now, their discovery of a unique molecule, TA-65, which is not science fiction, has opened new doors to this goal.
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 Handheld device for doing blood tests moves closer to medical useAnalytical Chemistry Scientists are reporting a key advance in efforts to develop a handheld device that could revolutionize the complete blood cell count (CBC), one of the most frequently performed blood tests used to diagnose and treat disease. In a report in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry, they describe adding a key feature to their "blood lab-on-a-chip" that allows it to count white blood cells more accurately.
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 Medizone International Announces Successful Production of AsepticSure Hospital Disinfection SystemSan Francisco, CA - Medizone International, Inc. (MZEI:OB) (MZEI:QB) announced today that the first production unit of its HYPERLINK "http://medizoneint.com/asepticsure/dr-dick-zoutman-presents-the-case-for-asepticsure/"AsepticSure disinfection technology has been successfully completed by its manufacturing partner, SMTC Corporation (NASDAQ:SMTX).
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 Financial Justice For All Disabled Canadians"Do you know there's financial help for your child?" I recently asked a friend. Like many new parents he and his wife had expected a healthy child. But the fickle finger of fate had ordained otherwise. Now, several years later, they were struggling with the medical, financial and emotional burdens of caring for a child with cerebral palsy, a lifetime disability. Unfortunately, many families are unaware of the new government project providing financial security for all disabled Canadians.
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 Advance toward an imaging agent for diagnosing Alzheimer's diseaseACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters Scientists are reporting development and initial laboratory tests of an imaging agent that shows promise for detecting the tell-tale signs of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the brain -- signs that now can't confirm a diagnosis until after patients have died. Their report appears in the journal ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters.
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 Re: Chopping Wood In Northern CanadaI recently suggested the best treatment for OxyContin addicts was Course 101, Chopping Wood in Northern Canada. I asked for a reaction and got it, a ton of e-mails!
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 Vaccine to stop heart attacks could be here in 5 yearsCanada.com
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 Merck Contributes $35 million to Merck Lumira Biosciences Fund in QuebecOTTAWA, - Rx&D President Russell Williams made the following statement today about the Merck Lumira Biosciences Fund, which will fuel future pharmaceutical innovation in Quebec.
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 Will I Get My Wish on The Second Post-Operative Day?What do I do when I arrive home after seeing patients all day? I have a pre-dinner drink with my wife. This week I'll wish I could still do it. But on March 22 I'm scheduled for a hip replacement at The Toronto Western Hospital. So today, a column dealing with alcohol is appropriate. And will my surgeon recall Sir William Osler's wise remark?
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 Rx For OxyContin Addicts: "Chop Wood In Northern Canada"What will happen to the 200,000 or more Canadian OxyContin addicts now that this opioid narcotic is no longer available? For years these people have embarked on a willful act of self-destruction. Isn't it about time for society to get its priorities straight? To care more for those who have lived a good lifestyle, paid their taxes, and when dying of cancer, suffer needless agony because there's no money for more palliative centers in this country.
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 Why coffee drinking reduces the risk of Type 2 diabetesJournal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry Why do heavy coffee drinkers have a lower risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, a disease on the increase around the world that can lead to serious health problems? Scientists are offering a new solution to that long-standing mystery in a report in ACS' Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry.
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 Planting the seeds for heart-healthier fries and other foodsChemical & Engineering News With spring planting season on the horizon, scientists are planting the seeds of healthier oils for cooking French fries, fried chicken and other fried items prepared in restaurants and other settings in the foodservice industry. Those seeds of new types of heart-healthy soybean, canola and sunflower oils are the topic of an article in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society.
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 What Vitamins Do I Take?Should I take vitamin supplements to prevent illness? Do I need them if I eat a balanced diet? What is the best dosage of vitamin D or C?
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 Why Couldn't This Woman Go To Church?Several years ago I landed at Nairobi airport in Kenya after many hours in the air. It was an uneventful flight, but one elderly traveller had encountered an embarrassing problem. On arrival, she could not put on her shoes due to swelling (edema) of her feet. So why do legs and feet swell in flight, and when is it dangerous? Also what prevented one woman from going to church?
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 Cuddling dying pets gives owners scary infectionsMSNBC
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 CDC Issues Warning About Nasal WashesDENVER (CBS4) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Jewish Health in Colorado both have issued a warning about nasal washes after two people have died from using tap water to do their sinus rinse.
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 New hybrid "NOSH aspirin" as possible anti-cancer drugACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters Scientists have combined two new "designer" forms of aspirin into a hybrid substance that appears more effective than either of its forebears in controlling the growth of several forms of cancer in laboratory tests. Their report on the new NOSH-aspirin, so named because it releases nitric oxide (NO) and hydrogen sulfide (H2S), appears in the journal ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters.
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 Adapting personal glucose monitors to detect DNAAnalytical Chemistry An inexpensive device used by millions of people with diabetes could be adapted into a home DNA detector that enables individuals to perform home tests for viruses and bacteria in human body fluids, in food and in other substances, scientists are reporting in a new study. The report on this adaptation of the ubiquitous personal glucose monitor, typically used to test blood sugar levels, appears in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry.
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