December 19, 2022 Bariatric Medicine Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials looks at efficacy of semaglutide (Ozempic) in treating people suffering with obesity
December 15, 2022 Bariatric Medicine Diabetes drug in short supply in U.S. (but not in Canada) after celebrities, influencers touted its weight-loss benefits.
November 11, 2022 Addiction Orexin-blocking medications to be investigated as potential treatment for drug addiction
August 29, 2022 Cardiovascular Diesase Study shows that post MI use of polypill combination of ASA, ACE-inhibitor, and statin as opposed to individual pill forms improved secondary prevention outcomes due to better adherence to treatment.
August 2, 2022 Infectious Disease Biden’s rebound COVID and its relationship to Paxlovid reviewed but more data needed to fully understand why this occurs.
May 17, 2022 Prescription Drugs Possible new treatment, pending Phase 3 study confirmation, for Dupuytren’s Disease reported by Oxford researchers.
May 11, 2022 Bariatric Medicine Treatments for weight loss do exist, work well for many, and reveal our growing understanding of how our homeostatic, motivational, and executive brain centers interact with respect to weight control.
April 4, 2022 Allergy/Immunology Many Canadians continue to choose Benadryl as their first choice for allergy medication despite messaging from Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology recommending safer 2nd and 3rd generation antihistamines.
February 14, 2022 Clinical Research FDA stops the review of the incomplete data (two-dose COVID vaccine for children 0-5 years-old) it asked from Pfizer. Why did you ask for it in the first place? Says now it will wait for the complete three-dose data set. What a surprise.????
February 7, 2022 Cancer/Oncology Case studies reported in Nature of decade-long leukaemia remissions after CAR T treatment. #GoScience