How can we prevent or delay Alzheimer’s?

How can we push back or prevent Alzheimer’s?” asks Claudette in Quebec City. As with most health-related issues, the answer is we can do our best with diet and exercise. The Globe’s dietitian wrote a piece this week that outlined a new diet that may help stave off Alzheimer’s: According to a study, a hybrid of these two eating plans – called the MIND diet – is...

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How much naturally-occurring sugar (i.e. from fruit or milk) is healthy to eat?

How much naturally-occurring sugar (i.e. from fruit or milk) is healthy to eat? There are no guidelines to limit natural sugars in fresh fruits and vegetables and milk because there is simply no evidence that consuming these sugars is harmful to our health. Earlier this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) released strict limits for added sugars – those that are...

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There’s an apple that will never brown for sale in Canada. What health risks do GMO foods pose?

There’s an apple that will never brown for sale in Canada. What health risks do GMO foods pose? The Arctic apple, engineered to be non-browning, became the latest genetically modified food to be approved by Health Canada this week. We’ll likely start seeing it in stores in 2017, according to Neal Carter, founder of Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc., the British Columbia-based...

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What’s the current recommendation about eggs? How many should I eat per day?

What’s the current recommendation about eggs? How many should I eat per day? A 2013 report, published online in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, concluded that eating an egg a day – yolk included – did not increase the risk of cardiovascular disease in healthy people.The bad news: Egg eaters were more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. And among people...

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Good Clinical Practice GCP

Good clinical practice (GCP) is an international quality standard that is provided by ICH, an international body that defines standards, which governments can transpose into regulations for clinical trials involving human subjects. A similar guideline for clinical trials of medical devices is the international standard ISO 14155, that is valid in the European Union...

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THE TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT

CLINICAL RESEARCH ETHICS: THE TUSKEGEE EXPERIMENT The Tuskegee syphilis experiment (/tʌsˈkiːɡiː/) was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African-American men in Alabama. They were told that they were receiving free health care from...

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