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Bird flu a concern in California
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 20, 2024 Source:How do people catch bird flu?
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‘Very low risk’ of hepatitis A spread to customers at Hunt Club Tim Hortons
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 19, 2024 Source:‘Very low risk’ of hepatitis A spread to customers at Hunt Club Tim Hortons
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Same old top-down advice from academics and bureaucrats trying to solve the family doctor shortage. Perhaps it would he advisable to ask physicians who actively manage their practices/businesses what it would take to improve the working environment to attract family doctors to join?
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 18, 2024 Source:Number of family doctors in Canada now growing at a slower pace: report Reference: While family physician growth has slowed, pan-Canadian data indicates primary health care workforce is expanding
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“Holiday Heart Syndrome” is no different from “weekend” or “celebratory” heart when the culprit is alcohol.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 17, 2024 Source:What is ‘holiday heart’ and how can you avoid it this Christmas season?
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New tool to test for early bone marrow changes know as smouldering multiple myeloma has been developed.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 16, 2024 Source:‘Smoldering myeloma’: Breakthrough research could buy time for those at risk of dangerous cancer
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House Calls, #951, December 15, 2024: Eli Lilly Levies Fat Tax on Weight Loss Drug
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff joins me today to discuss the decision by Eli Lilly, manufacturer of Mounjaro, to charge more for patients who are suffering with the affects of obesity. In fact the cost will be double that of people using it for the treatment of their type 2 diabetes. Your Calls and Comments:
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Some Early Forms of Low-Risk Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) Breast Cancer May Not Need Treatment, Study Says
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 13, 2024 Source:Some Early Forms of Breast Cancer May Not Need Treatment, Study Says Reference:Active Monitoring With or Without Endocrine Therapy for Low-Risk Ductal Carcinoma In Situ
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Certain foods may disrupt your body’s fight against cancer cells, study says, There are likely other concomitant factors at play.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 12 2024 Source:Certain foods may disrupt your body’s fight against cancer cells, study says Reference:Integration of lipidomics with targeted, single cell, and spatial transcriptomics defines an unresolved pro-inflammatory state in colon cancer
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A challenge to the hypothesis explaining the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s Disease.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 11, 2024 Source:Neuroscientists just turned a major Alzheimer’s theory on its head Reference:Increases in amyloid-β42 slow cognitive and clinical decline in Alzheimer’s disease trials
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