THE MEDICAL RECORD:  MULTIVITAMINS MAY PLAY A ROLE IN BOOSTING MEMORY OF OLDER ADULTS ACCORDING TO STUDY

Libby Znaimer is joined by Dr. Alisa Naiman, Family Physician and Founder and Medical Director of The Medical Station in Toronto, Dr. Malcolm Moore, Medical Oncologist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Dr. Jamie Spiegelman, an  Internal medicine and critical care physician at Humber River Hospital.

It’s Wednesday: time to talk about your health and it is our first medical panel of the new year. Many of us have made health related New Year resolutions - what are the most sensible changes to start and how best to keep them. And before the holidays we talked about the expected increase in heart attacks and overcrowding in emergency rooms. How did this actually turn out? Paediatricians are complaining that a lack of government data on childhood flu is hampering them. And if you listen to weather reports, one of the big questions is when will we see some sunshine? Is the lack of it getting you down and has it reached the level of SAD? We'll also touch on the latest on multivitamins and brain health and the Ozempic scam.

THE CONTROVERSIAL SECOND-HAND CLOTHING MARKET

Libby Znaimer is now joined by Megan McPhaden, Managing Editor at Cottage Life Magazine who wrote her thesis on this topic and Baniyelme Zoogah, an Associate Professor at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University.

It’s almost a seasonal ritual: purging our closets at the start of the new year and donating the items we no longer want. It may make us feel like we are doing something good but the opposite is true. Most of that stuff ends up in Africa if not in a landfill. And with the increased trendiness of thrifting, people who really need  those cheaper things often don't have access.

HARVARD'S PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS

Libby is now joined by Michael Poliakoff, President of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.

After months of pressure, the president of Harvard resigned yesterday. First there was that disastrous Congressional hearing where Claudine Gay, Harvard’s first Black woman president, could not bring herself to say that calling for the genocide of Jews violated the school’s policies. After that she was accused of plagiarism in her academic work - or at best the failure to properly cite her sources. Yesterday she stepped down also citing personal attacks which she claims were motivated by racism.

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