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- 9/30/2021
'Tightly knit': Small but mighty band of N.L. healthcare workers heading off to help Alberta battle COVID-19
Premier Andrew Furey says he's happy Newfoundland and Labrador will be sending a small team of healthcare workers to Alberta, a province closely linked with his own. - 9/30/2021
Two new menopause guidelines on sexuality highlight new treatments
New guidelines from SOGC are the first of seven to be published over the next two months as part of the overall Menopause Guidelines. - 9/30/2021
Spotlight 7: Massage therapist blessings
A patient who kept on wanting massage therapy for his chronic anxiety but wouldn’t consider meds or psychotherapy. That didn’t thrill Dr. Jassam—but then the patient’s requests went to something he had to say no to. - 9/30/2021
Fighting cancer better with AI
Canadian, American, German and Belgian researchers have developed an artificial intelligence application that has been able to collect and then synthesize for analysis millions of medical data concerning cancer patients followed for a decade. - 9/30/2021
Merck says experimental pill cuts worst effects of COVID-19
If cleared, the drug would be the first pill shown to treat COVID-19, a potentially major advance in efforts to fight the pandemic. - 9/30/2021
Drug combo yields ‘excellent’ survival outcomes in HER2+/HR- early breast cancer
Pertuzumab and trastuzumab plus paclitaxel strong survival outcomes in HER2+/HR- early breast cancer. Results from the WSG (West German Study Group)-ADAPT Her2+/HR- trial at the 2021 ASCO conference. - 9/29/2021
10% of Alberta schools have COVID 19 outbreaks: student advocacy group
Wing Li, a lead tracker and communications director for Support Our Students Alberta, says she has confirmed 228 of about 2,400 elementary and secondary schools have active outbreaks. - 9/29/2021
Pharmacies must put corporate interests aside to give flu shots
The flu shot starts to work two weeks after you get it, and its effectiveness wears off after a couple of months. Most influenza comes in Dec. and on. Yet pharmacies seem to be promoting folks to get flu shots in October.