The good news is that Moderna announced this morning that its vaccine was around 95 % effective, and this held for all demographic groups, including seniors. Plus, none of the people who got sick on the vaccine came down with a severe case of Covid-19, which is just as important to learn, perhaps. So yes, […]
So on the one hand, the Prime Minister says that Canada is gonna have to get in line behind other countries when it comes to getting Covid-19 vaccines for our population because we can no longer manufacture our own vaccines in the True North Strong and, Free (but not so Smart, eh). As usual, he […]
An interesting recent study in the British Journal of Dermatology looked at what’s happened to the rates of basal cell carcinoma (BCC), one of the2 most common skin cancers, over the last 30 years in people who live in Iceland. And while the rate doubled in men over that time, the rate quadrupled in women, […]
Easy. Give in. To your partner, I mean. So, a new University of Rochester meta-analysis published in the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, of 174 separate studies looking at several vital components of a strong (or not so strong) relationship has concluded that “being mindful and emotionally flexible in tough and challenging situations . . . (can) . […]
No good study has ever found a decent benefit from the drug hydroxycholoquine – even the Orange blowhard in the White House who has hyped this drug beyond all belief did not take HCQ for the treatment of his infection when he got sick. Yet hydroxycholoquine continues to be pushed in some quarters so this […]
According to the claims of a new study from Penn State dried fruit “may be connected” with better health. According to this study based on data from over 25,000 participants in the (US) National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a survey that provides tons of ongoing fascinating information, although people who consumed dried fruits regularly […]
Dogs were not very prominent in immigrant Canadian families after the 2nd World War. And for a good reason, I suppose: They had enough on their plates worrying about providing enough food for the kids without having to worry about feeding another animal in the home (and yes, some of us kids ate like animals; […]
For some reason, statin drugs, which reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, and even death from heart disease by (this varies, of course, by other risk factors) up to 25-35 per cent , draw and intense amount of negative discussion on the internet. There are lots of reasons for that – you can start […]
This morning, AstraZeneca PLC and the University of Oxford added their promising results from their vaccine candidate to the two shots that have shown good results against Covid-19. Depending on how negatively you can parse the data – and trust me, the experts will dissect, parse, boil the data till the cows come home, and […]
According to a new study published in the journal BMC Medicine that analyzed data from over 50,000 people in the long-ongoing (and excellent) EPIC-Oxford study , compared to people who eat meat and fish, “vegans with lower calcium and protein intake . . . had a higher risk of fractures anywhere in the body” which includes, […]