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Searching Health Information Online Free Vancouver, Surrey Public Forum

UBC and SFU are hosting two free public forums titled “Searching Health Information Online” as part of the Technologies for Better Health project. It’s led by an experienced medical librarian. Free, but you need to register online. When we use the Internet as a source of information about health and wellness, how do we know […]

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B.C. Lacks Resources to Treat, Diagnose Adults with ADHD – Vancouver Sun

Today’s Vancouver Sun Monday April 13th 2009 has an article on Adult ADHD on p A5. The title is B.C. lacks resources to treat, diagnose adults with ADHD by Amy O’Brian. Web version is here. They interviewed a local adult with ADHD, John Scrivin. Please check it out and let others that might be interested

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Study 33.3% of Alcoholics had ADHD, 65.5% of Substance Abuse Patients Had ADHD.

A study in the Journal Alcohol and Alcoholism looked at 91 adults with alcohol dependence and 61 adults with multiple substance addiction and they determined if these patients were affected by ADHD. RESULTS: 20.9% WURS-k (Wender Utah Rating Scale) 23.1% (DSM-IV diagnostic criteria) of the alcohol-dependent patients showed evidence of retrospective ADHD affliction in childhood.

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Is The Whey Based Protein Powder/Bar/Drink You Eat Made With Chinese Contaminated Milk Protein aka Melamine?

Do you know if it is? Do you know if it’s not? Most protein powders, protein bars and protein drinks are made with whey protein, which is made from milk. Is your government checking and letting you know if the whey protein products that you’re eating or drinking safe to consume? Especially since the whole

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