WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION’S RANKING OF THE WORLD’S HEALTH SYSTEMS World Health Organization’s Ranking of the World’s Health Systems 116  Some people fancy all health care debates to be a case of Canadian Health Care vs. American. Not so. According to the World Health Organization’s ranking of the world’s health systems, neither Canada nor the USA ranks in the top 25. Improving the Canadian Healthcare System does not mean we must emulate the American system, but it may mean that perhaps we can learn from countries that rank better than both Canada and the USA at keeping their citizens healthy. World Health Organization Ranking; The World’s Health Systems 1 France 2 Italy 3 San Marino 4 Andorra 5 Malta 6 Singapore 7 Spain 8 Oman 9 Austria 10 Japan 11 Norway 12 Portugal 13 Monaco 14 Greece 15 Iceland 16 Luxembourg 17 Netherlands 18 United Kingdom 19 Ireland 20 Switzerland 21 Belgium 22 Colombia 23 Sweden 24 Cyprus 25 Germany 26 Saudi Arabia 27 United Ara...

'Instantaneous results': How music transformed a man with Parkinson's Before Parkinson’s disease changed his life, Larry Jennings loved to sing, dance and play his guitar. A decade after his diagnosis, the 73-year-old Oklahoma man is once again able to dance with his wife, thanks to the therapeutic power of music.   Jennings’ remarkable improvement was captured on video that has gone viral since his physical therapist Anicea Gunlock shared it on Facebook.  The video, posted earlier this month,  at first shows Jennings struggling to walk around his home in Hartshorne, Okla., even with the help of a walker. But when Gunlock started playing music on her cellphone, Jennings’ stride immediately improved. Within a couple of minutes, Jennings was able to let go of his walker and even lead Gunlock in a dance. “I’d never seen anything like it,” Gunlock told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview Thursday. Gunlock explained how, after her very first session with Jenn...

Men who eat lots of red meat have higher risk for common bowel disease ‹ 2/2 Bacon is fried up in a pan in a kitchen in this photo illustration in Golden, Colorado, October 26, 2015. REUTERS/RICK WILKING 1/2 Individual packages of steak are shown with labels at a meat shop in San Francisco, California June 5, 2015. REUTERS/ROBERT GALBRAITH 2/2 Bacon is fried up in a pan in a kitchen in this photo illustration in Golden, Colorado, October 26, 2015. REUTERS/RICK WILKING 1/2 Individual packages of steak are shown with labels at a meat shop in San Francisco, California June 5, 2015. REUTERS/ROBERT GALBRAITH › X A new study suggests that men who eat lots of red meat are much more likely to have bowel problems, pain and nausea than their peers who stick mainly with chicken or fish. Researchers examined more than two decades of data on more than 46,000 men and f...