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Dr. Vivien Brown

Dr. Vivien Brown

MD,CM, CCFP, FCFP, NCMP
Family Doctor
Toronto, ON
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What are long-term health benefits of taking birth control pills?

A:

Aside from preventing pregnancies, the birth control pill carries some positive side effects from taking it over a lengthy period of time. Long-term health benefits include lower occurrences of ovarian cancer and anemia in women taking birth control pills. 

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Non-Contraceptive Benefits of the Pill

Dr. Daniel Ngui

Dr. Daniel Ngui

BSc (P.T), MD, CFPC, FCFP
Family Doctor
Vancouver, BC
Q:

Why should people get vaccinated?

A:

Patients getting immunized as adults can help protect those at highest risk. For example, those who are young, those who are elderly and those who are immunocompromised. If adults get immunized when they’re healthy, it can help with herd immunity, or reduce the risk to transmit conditions to others.

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Adult vaccination and the pneumococcal pneumonia vaccine

Dr. Amit Gupta

Dr. Amit Gupta

MD, FACS
Ophthalmologist
Scarborough, ON
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Diabetes And The Importance Of Regular Eye Exams

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Once you have been diagnosed as having diabetes, you need to get regular eye exams. You may not realize when you have eye disease, your vision can be 20/20, even though there’s bleeding in the back of the eye.

Only your eye doctor can look inside that eye and tell you that you’re having a problem. Whether it is by looking, or by doing tests such as optical optical coherence tomography or photographs, the doctor needs to look inside your eyes to be able to tell if you have a problem.

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Diabetes And The Importance Of Regular Eye Exams

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