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Category : Health Trends – Canada
At the CAncer or Not Cancer: Evaluating and Reconsidering GG1 prostate cancer (CANCER-GG1?) Symposium, Jeff Simko provides analogies from other cancer types to inform the debate on reclassifying Grade Group 1 prostate cancer. He presents the example of tubular breast cancer, which… S..
INDIAN TRAIL, N.C. (WBTV) – A Union County high school student was diagnosed with tuberculosis, public health officials announced on Thursday. Tuberculosis is a bacterial infection that spreads through the air and most often affects the lungs. Without proper antibiotic treatment, the disease can… S..
Twice-yearly shots used to treat AIDS were 100% effective in preventing new infections in women, according to study results published Wednesday. There were no infections in the young women and girls that got the shots in a study of about 5,000 in South Africa and Uganda, researchers reported…. S..
Fancy a water, oat and lime juice smoothie? No? Influencers across the internet have been raving about this concoction, claiming it mimics the effects of the weight loss drug Ozempic. They’ve even dubbed it ‘oat-zempic.’ But now it seems there could be some truth to the hack –… S..
More than 18% of physicians reported post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a review and meta-analysis published online July 24 in JAMA Network Open. … S..
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — El Paso County has higher rates of STDs than most counties in Texas, according to the Texas Health and Human Services website. In their most recent STD surveillance report from 2021, El Paso County ranked 6th in the state when it came to chlamydia, syphilis, and… S..
Cells and viruses HEK 293T (human kidney epithelial, ATCC CRL-11268), Vero E6 (Cercopithecus aethiops kidney epithelial, ATCC CRL-1586) and SVG-A (human astroglial, provided by T. Kirchhausen) cells were maintained in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle’s medium (DMEM, Gibco) supplemented with 10%… S..
A bat in Burlington, Ont., has tested positive for rabies, warns the local public health authority. It was found in a central neighbourhood and is the first confirmed case of rabies detected in a bat in the Halton Region this year, said public health in a news release Wednesday. A viral… S..
Ottawa County has recorded its first detection of West Nile virus so far this summer. S..