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The moment the thermometer climbs, most Indian homes reach straight for a strip of Dolo 650 or Crocin. It is the familiar first move for a warm forehead, body ache...

Anyone who has waited for a Canadian bus in January knows the feeling — fingers that ache with cold and toes that stay icy long after you have come indoors...

Every Canadian September, the backpacks come out and so do the germs — a fresh classroom of shared desks, shared snacks and shared sniffles that seem to travel straight home...

By the time a Canadian winter reaches its darkest stretch, the sun is gone before the workday ends and mornings start in the dark too. That long run of short...

Come deep winter, the furnace runs day and night and the moisture seems to vanish from every Canadian home — and your skin pays the price. Tight cheeks, flaky shins,...

Canadian winter means more time indoors, dry heated air and frequent circulation of respiratory viruses. Vaccination, ventilation, hand hygiene and staying home when acutely unwell remain the most useful preventive...

When sleep will not come, plenty of Canadians reach for Nytol or Sleep-Eze from the pharmacy shelf — the drowsy antihistamine tablets that promise a faster route to nodding off....

A dab of Ozonol has lived in Canadian medicine cabinets for generations — the tube you grab after a kitchen mishap, a scrape on the trail, or a patch of...

Polysporin is the tube in nearly every Canadian first-aid kit, dabbed on every scraped knee and kitchen nick out of pure habit. It has its place, but for the everyday...

Gravol is the little box Canadians pack for the ferry, the winding cottage road and any queasy stomach — it is almost the default word for nausea relief here. It...

A steaming mug of NeoCitran is the go-to comfort for a lot of Canadians the moment a cold or flu takes hold — hot, lemony and knock-you-out for the night....

Buckley's Mixture is practically a Canadian rite of passage — that bracing, tastes-awful-works-great spoonful people keep for a cough that will not quit. The taste alone is a lot, and...