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- 7/12/2021
Ohio patient gets kidney meant for someone else
An Ohio hospital has acknowledged that a patient received a new kidney meant for someone else. - 7/12/2021
Belgian woman believed first case of contracting two COVID-19 variants at once
The 90-year-old had not been vaccinated. - 7/11/2021
Canada to donate 17.7M doses of AstraZeneca and raise money for global vaccination
The federal government is donating 17.7 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and is asking Canadians to give their own money to help other countries get needles into arms. - 7/11/2021
Decriminalizing drug use is a necessary step, but it won’t end the opioid overdose crisis
Media, policy-makers, advocates and the public claim that decriminalization will make drug use safer and save lives. But can it? - 7/11/2021
Health Canada pulls pre rolled joints contaminated with yeast, mould and bacteria
Exposure to unwanted yeast can really harsh a strain's mellow. - 7/11/2021
Feds setting up guidelines to include national security considerations into university research funding criteria
Security questions around scientific research have drawn renewed attention after two scientists were escorted from the high-security National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg in July 2019 and then fired in January this year. - 7/11/2021
Case report: Vaccine side effects
Having read about “Moderna arm,” I was sure that I was observing a case. Seven days previous to her visit, a patient had received her first dose of Moderna vaccine. Two days later, she noticed a small red spot on her vaccinated arm. This continued to grow in size. - 7/11/2021
Ontario family doctors want clear plan on their future COVID-19 vaccination role
Provincial officials said this week that they hope to include more family care practitioners in the immunization campaign in an effort to reach residents still without first doses and slowly shift away from mass clinics.