And anything else you don’t ordinarily wash but which you’ve been convinced to wash nonetheless to prevent getting COVID-19. Nearly every expert – including most lately the US CDC, which has been very slow to accept this reality of viral transmission, namely that it is nearly always passed on through air-spread – that you are […]
And so am I. But when you get most worked up about what’s going on and how long it’s taking to get things back even close to normal, just consider this. This virus has only been causing havoc here in Canada since February (give or take a few weeks) last year. And work on a […]
Apparently, the New York Times reports, allergy symptoms may also be improved in people who wear masks a lot. This is according to a recent Israeli study on data from 215 nurses who used surgical masks or N95 masks during a two-week period. Among the 44 nurses with severe allergy symptoms, nearly 40 percent said […]
According to a study that analyzed long-term data on over 20,00 people, and which was published online in the journal, JACC: CardioOncology, the same risk factors for major cardiovascular diseases (CVD), which includes heart attacks, heart failure, sudden cardiac death, and strokes, are also linked to a significantly higher risk of future cancer. On what […]
A major news announcement from the UK government this week that everyone in England is soon to be offered free, twice-weekly coronavirus tests. Which sounds like a plan that has only an upside to it. And if England can do it, why can’t BC? Sure, it’s costly but surely not nearly as costly as repeated […]
If you think things are bad now, they will be even worse after the pandemic eases. That’s the gist of two new Frame of Reference articles just published in the journal Circulation. How can things get worse, you wonder. Because of what we did – and mostly didn’t do – during the pandemic. Thus, these articles […]
The good news is that a new long-term study of 6,520 people between the ages of 58 and 101 which is just out in the online issue of Neurology found that those people with just one sensory deficit of either hearing or vision had no increased risk of eventual dementia. The bad news is that there […]
According to a new study in the Lancet Oncology, if you’re one of the hundreds of millions of people taking one of the several types of high blood pressure out there, the good news is that this huge analysis failed to find that these drugs raise your risk of cancer, something that, believe it or […]
According to a research letter published online April 5 in JAMA Pediatrics, an estimated 37,300 to 43,000 children in the US have lost a parent to COVID-19, and an estimated 3/4 of the kids who lost a parent were adolescents, which is about 20 % more than in a typical year. And all this happened over […]
According to a new report in the CMAJ, lots of you may be taking your anti-histamines “incorrectly”. That’s especially pertinent at this time of year when so many of us are suffering allergy-associated symptoms, something that for most of us will go on all summer at least to some extent. So here’s the main point […]