Health

Orgasm Inc.: B.C. professors address medicalization of female sexual dysfunction

By Craig Takeuchi | February 9, 2012

How would you feel if you were told that the identification of female sexual dysfunction and its treatments might be motivated more by profit than by research?

Sex plays key role in health

By Gail Johnson | February 9, 2012

There's no more clichéd excuse to skip sex than the old line: "Not tonight, honey; I've got a headache." However, if the headache is genuine, sex might be just what the doctor ordered.

Finlandia offers the love hormone by prescription

By Gail Johnson | February 9, 2012

Local residents can fill a prescription for oxytocin at Finlandia, where it's available in lozenges, nasal spray, or injectable form.

When the Devil Knocks powerfully depicts multiple personalities

By Adrian Mack | February 7, 2012

The broadcast of When the Devil Knocks on the Knowledge Network tonight comes when the dispute over the validity of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is on the boil again.

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Director LÃ©a Pool digs into the dark side of breast-cancer fundraising in Pink Ribbons, Inc.

Director Léa Pool digs into the dark side of breast-cancer fundraising in Pink Ribbons, Inc.

By Janet Smith | February 2, 2012

taking on pink-ribbon campaigns—a project some might liken to ripping into Amnesty International or Mother Teresa—was not a project that director Léa Pool took lightly.

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Pink Ribbons, Inc. pulls no punches

By Janet Smith | February 2, 2012

It names names, takes on massive corporations, and rips into one of the charity world’s most revered symbols of hope.

Study examines adult women, sex, and risk

By Gail Johnson | February 2, 2012

The medicalization of female sexuality—and the misinformation surrounding it as a result—has never been more prevalent.

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British Columbians want laws to stop gender-based abortions: poll

By Craig Takeuchi | January 27, 2012

The majority of British Columbians want Canadian laws to prevent the use of abortion for gender selection, according to an Angus Reid poll.

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ADHD experts want B.C. inquiry into bungled $3-million donation

By Matthew Burrows | January 25, 2012

Experts are seeking an investigation into why the Provincial Health Services Authority blew a chance to pocket a $3-million donation.

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With adaptive skiing, teachers benefit, too

By Gail Johnson | January 25, 2012

Vancouver Adaptive Snow Sports offers ski, snowboard, and sit-ski lessons at local mountains for people of all ages with everything from autism to paraplegia to blindness.

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