On Monday, February 25th 2008, Meera Dossa , a naturopathic doctor at The Pacific Wellness Institute, Toronto, was featured on Global News Ontario as part of their health segment. As Global was doing a story on the importance of folic acid, Dr. Dossa was approached to speak about the recommended dietary intake values and actual [...]

By Meera Dossa BSc, ND
Naturopathic physicians have a number of modalities in their “medical arsenals”, in order to help people achieve a sense of well being. One such modality is called parenteral therapy (or more commonly called intravenous therapy), and it will be offered in the form of a Myers’ Cocktail as early as [...]

We’ve all heard of at least one story of someone having a heart attack from shoveling snow and wondered if winter is indeed hazardous to our health. Well, according to statistics Canada, Environment Canada and the Heart and Stroke foundation “the colder winter months are definitely associated with increased hospitalization and mortality among heart failure [...]