By Karin Kloosterman

(Whoopi Goldberg undergoes the EndoPAT test. Able to predict heart health 7 years into the future, it will soon be available in Canada).
Canadians know about eating food to promote a healthy heart. For decades we’ve been seeing commercials on TV, teaching us how to eat our veggies, stay fit, and how to check [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Showing up unannounced, I’d met Beverly Goodman in Eilat, the southernmost city in Israel where she is working as a marine researcher, doing something akin to underwater archeology. She was eager to accept me and my mom, who’d just come to Israel from Canada for a short holiday. Thinking I could merge travel [...]

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by Staff
New Scientist magazine reports that a “bank” of ready-to-transplant organs may be one step closer to reality thanks to an Israeli experiment in which a pig’s liver was frozen, thawed and transplanted. 
Reports Andy Coghlan:  “If human livers, which are about the same size, can survive this process, more people in need of transplants could receive [...]

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