/oss/taxonomy/term/2987/all en /oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-may-just-be-hot-air-many <hr /> <p><em>This article was first published in <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-may-just-be-hot-air-for-many">The Montreal Gazette.</a></em></p> Fri, 27 Sep 2024 23:03:19 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 10098 at /oss /oss/article/medical/type-2-diabetes-what-why-and-how <p>November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. It therefore timely to consider what diabetes actually is, why we should care, and how it can be treated. Diabetes, or more technically, diabetes mellitus, now affects 10% of Canadians, with the numbers increasing annually, not only in Canada but worldwide.</p> Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:22:11 +0000 Patricia Brubaker, Ph.D., F.R.S.C. 9730 at /oss /oss/article/did-you-know-health/theres-condition-can-cause-human-blood-turn-green <p>If you have clear blood you may be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiopod#Taxonomy">brachiopod</a>, if you have blue blood you may be an <a href="/oss/article/did-you-know/snails-spiders-and-octupi-all-have-blue-blood">octopus</a> (or just a rich human), but if you have green blood you may have sulfhemoglobinemia.</p> Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:00:00 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 8000 at /oss /oss/article/health/under-microscope-blood <p><img height="2693" width="2694" style="width: 600px; height: 600px;" class="file-original " src="/oss/files/oss/img_1617.jpg" alt="" /></p> Mon, 25 Mar 2019 19:31:36 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 7665 at /oss /oss/article/did-you-know/snails-spiders-and-octupi-all-have-blue-blood <p>Snails, spiders and octopi have something in common- they all have blue blood! We're not talking in the sense of royalty, these creatures literally have blue blood. So why is their blood blue and ours red?</p> <p>One of the purposes of blood is to carry oxygen around the body. That transport system is actually quite complex, not just a matter of oxygen dissolving in liquid blood.  </p> Mon, 12 Feb 2018 17:01:24 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 6920 at /oss