Constipation is not a disease but a symptom. Most people growing up with constipation doesn’t even realize it to be abnormal until the discomfort starts to interfere with how they are feeling over all. In fact, some think that their bowel habits are quite normal when they have only one bowel movement a week. Constipation [...]

Hepatitis B is a serious liver infection caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). In Canada, there are about 3,000 new cases each year. For some, the infection can become deadly when the condition becomes chronic leading to liver scarring (cirrhosis), liver failure or liver cancer. Once our liver is compromised we lose a major [...]

Sweating (diaphoresis) is a natural physiologic response when the body needs to cool down (physical activity or from fever) but it can also occur in emotional situations, high environmental temperatures or even in some disease states such as an overactive thyroid to an underlying malignancy. Therefore, in any case of excessive sweating it is necessary [...]