It would be much easier to accept Health Canada’s hesitancy to approve the AstraZeneca vaccine if HC were more open – as that agency seldom seem to be – about the reasons for its hesitancy. I am sure the reasons make sense. But it would be a real boon for all of us – not […]
“Health Canada is working hard to give Canadians access to COVID-19 vaccines as quickly as possible without compromising its safety, efficacy and quality standards,” said the Health Canada statement. “Protecting the health and safety of Canadians is a top priority.” Those are quotes from the Health Canada statement issued today. I just hope they – […]
For once. According to a report from the CBC, Health Canada has decided wait for more data before approving – or not approving – the coronavirus vaccine from the Oxford group in partnership with AstraZeneca. Which separates Canada from the UK where the authorities have just approved this vaccine for immediate use in UK residents. […]
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A 1787-person study of people between the ages of 46 to 77 (and followed for over a decade) published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease has concluded that yes, hurray, some foods can help your brain age better. And the very great news for some of us is that the food that was particularly linked […]
Yet another study (over 1 million case records) which was published today in the Lancet Digital Health has concluded, like several other studies have, that those anti-hypertensive drugs that were labelled early in this pandemic as being linked to worse outcomes with COVID-19 are in fact quite safe to take. This study concluded that compared […]
I’m shocked, shocked to learn that eating a lot of ultra-processed foods is bad for you. But that’s exactly what researchers in Italy have concluded from an 8-year-long study of over 22,000 Italians, and yes, apparently even in Italy, where access to great food – Mediterranean diet stuff – is a near as your corner […]
An interesting study in the journal Physics of Fluids concluded that simply walking behind a fast-walking person infected with SARS-Co-V2 in a narrow corridor inside a building can raise your risk of getting infected from that source. According to the computer simulation in this study, a coughing person walking fast in a narrow indoor space […]
An editorial in JAMA has concluded that COVID-19 has become the leading cause of death in the United States, which means it’s moved past the previous leading causes of death, namely heart disease and cancer. Wanna know how bad it is? One of the authors of this editorial argues that “the current death rate from […]
French national data published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine journal found that roughly “twice as many people were admitted to hospital for COVID-19 at the height of the pandemic than were for influenza at the peak of the 2018/2019 flu season”, and that the death rate among COVID-19 patients was almost three times higher than the death […]