Freelance lifestyle and entertainment journalist
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … Standing at the top of a hill before a run, what’s going through your mind? It depends. If I’m at the top of the half pipe, I’m going through my run mentally and then I’ll just breathe and tell myself, “Relax. You got this.” But if I’m just going down […]
Published as part of FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … When you were younger, what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a ballerina. I studied ballet for a long time as a kid. How did you end up forging your own career path? I didn’t think I would end up with […]
Breaking news coverage for Allergic Living from the 2016 AAAAI conference. Epinephrine auto-injectors are a life-saving tool for children with allergies, however new evidence suggests the design of the devices may need adjustment for use on very young children. The needles in pediatric auto-injectors are half-an-inch long, but according to research presented at the AAAAI conference in March, […]
Breaking news coverage for Allergic Living from the 2016 AAAAI conference. Precautionary allergy labels are widely misunderstood and causing confusion, which in turn is leading to a lack of caution among consumers who live with food allergies, according to a recent study. Researchers surveyed more than 6,600 food-allergic consumers and caregivers in the U.S. and Canada, finding that […]
Breaking news coverage for Allergic Living from the 2016 AAAAI conference. Each academic year, one in every six U.S. schools will have a student or staff member experience anaphylaxis, according to a nationwide survey that further supports the need for stock epinephrine auto-injectors in schools, and training for staff on when and how to use them. The latest […]
Published as part of FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What is your clientele like? Our clients range in age from 19 to 70. Because you need a prescription, they are either avid [medicinal] cannabis users, or people who have been sick for a while and are trying cannabis for the first time because they are seeking an alternative remedy. What […]
Written for Mediaplanet’s Neurological Conditions campaign published in the National Post on March 11, 2016. When some people look at seven-year-old Jaxson, they see a brain tumour survivor who is now unable to breathe, eat, or stand on his own, but Candace Breynaert simply sees her son. Jax was just a toddler when he started vomiting profusely and […]
Written for Mediaplanet’s Women’s Health campaign published in Maclean’s magazine in March 2016. In the age of hand sanitizer and antibiotics, many avoid bacteria in order to stay healthy, but research indicates that not all bacteria are bad. “A probiotic is actually a substance made by a microorganism including bacteria and even fungi,” says Dr. Marla Shapiro, an […]
Written for Mediaplanet’s Women’s Health campaign published in Maclean’s magazine in March 2016. New medical imaging is taking mammography from 2D to 3D, providing physicians with a better picture of cancer. The main screening tool for breast cancer, one of the most common cancers among Canadian women, is currently 2D mammography, which takes two X-ray images of the […]
Ishani Nath 