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- 3/14/2024
The obsessive passion: is it a way to escape?
Sometimes passionate interests serve as escapes from underlying issues, argues Dr. Jabir Jassam. - 3/14/2024
Five tips: Assessing the potential for QT-prolongation drug interactions
Picture this: you’re filling/verifying prescriptions and you get that all too familiar pop-up that notifies you of a QT-prolongation interaction . . . how should you approach this? - 3/14/2024
The tools in a medieval Japanese healer’s toolkit: from fortunetelling and exorcism to herbal medicines
As a historian of premodern Japan, Alessandro Poletto has studied its healing experts. Both literature and historical records demonstrate that the boundaries between what are often called ‘religion’ and ‘medicine’ were indistinct. - 3/14/2024
A blood test for colon cancer performed well in a study, expanding options for screening
The test looks for DNA fragments shed by tumor cells and precancerous growths. It’s already for sale in the U.S. for $895, but has not actually been approved by the FDA, yet. - 3/14/2024
Florida’s ‘quick fix’: Instead of looking to Canada for cheaper drugs, U.S. should regulate its own prices
We appreciate that Americans need access to affordable drugs. But taking them from Canada is not a fair, sustainable or equitable solution. - 3/14/2024
What is Tommy John surgery and how has it progressed in the 50 years since it was invented
Dr. Jeffrey R. Dugas developed a procedure that cut recovery time to as little as nine months for some baseball pitchers with torn elbow ligaments. He envisions more innovations within five-to-seven years. - 3/14/2024
Teen pregnancy raises risk of death in early adulthood, Ontario study suggests
The study of 2.2 million females between the ages of 12 and 19 found that the risk of premature death was 1.5 times higher in those who had one teen pregnancy and 2.1 times higher among those with at least two teen pregnancies. - 3/14/2024
B.C. proposes law allowing government to sue companies behind products that can be harmful to health
The Public Health Accountability and Cost Recovery Act is modelled on previous B.C. legislation that allows the province to seek recovery of health-related tobacco and opioid damage costs. - 3/14/2024
Program helping northern Ontario ERs stay open set to expire
Many of the province’s more isolated hospitals that rely on locums have been benefiting from the Temporary Locum Program, which pays them a premium. - 3/13/2024
Case report: Bigger?
Dr. Robert Dickson sees something dramatic in his walk-in that addresses common issues we don’t often consider.