The Kootenay / Boundary region woke to the impact of a magnitude 4.6 earthquake in the early hours this Friday morning. The earthquake’s epicenter was just outside of Omak, Washington at 5:09 a.m., the second in a week according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. The earthquake that took place last week in the same […]

Some people enjoy the scent of a wood fire. Still smoke is full of particulate matter and exotic trace chemicals. Two new studies led by University of California, Berkeley, researchers spotlight the human health effects of exposure to smoke from open fires and dirty cook stoves, the primary source of cooking and heating for 43 […]

The Japanese have long had the edge on healthy living, Another popular route to longer, healthy living found in Japan is to drink water immediately after waking up every morning. Read the complete article, as suggested by facebook subscriber to The Nelson Daily. It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking […]

Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much. – Helen Keller Proving the Polish proverb that two heads are better than one, a unique example of teamwork has provided the City of Nelson with a community health education centre. More than a dozen organizations came together to create the Community Health […]

The high-profile sponsorship of a BC cancer research charity event by the world's biggest oil pipeline builder raises serious questions about the ethics of fundraising - and threatens to backfire for both organizations involved.Unless you never open a newspaper, turn on the TV, listen to the radio, or surf the web, you have...

Especially with the cold weather this year, I’ll be expecting phone calls from parents with sick children (or themselves if they were dipping into the candy too much) about a week after Hallowe’en. I see many colds and flus due to the increased amount of sugar. As I stated in a past article, one teaspoon […]

The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control is issuing a public health advisory to identify passengers who traveled on Greyhound bus #5098 on Oct. 11 and were exposed to an active case of tuberculosis. The ill person took Greyhound bus #5098 from Vancouver at 5:45 p.m., arrived in Chilliwack at 7:45 p.m. left Chilliwack at […]

By Yojana Sharma, Science and Development Network Researchers are aiming to bridge the gap between Chinese and Western systems of medicine with what they say is the first database of chemical compounds found in herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine. The database, known as Chem-TCM, will be used to help with drug development, according to […]

Amendments to the Workers Compensation Act were introduced Thursday in the legislature. The proposed changes ensure the current workers’ compensation system remains responsive to the needs of workers and employers. Specifically, the amendments: Broaden compensation coverage for mental stress conditions arising in the workplace. Adjust compensation for injured apprentices to a level that fairly represents […]

By Helen Fields, Science AAAS Happy people don’t just enjoy life; they’re likely to live longer, too. A new study has found that those in better moods were 35 per cent less likely to die in the next five years when taking their life situations into account. The traditional way to measure a person’s happiness […]