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Ontario girl with autism making ‘fantastic’ progress after deep brain stimulation treatment
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 9, 2023 Source:Ontario girl with autism making ‘fantastic’ progress after deep brain stimulation treatment
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Sunday House Call, #863, January 8, 2023: You can do it, we can help.
Pharmacists have been given new areas within which they can prescribe. If it helps patients, I am all for it. There are caveats as always but these can be resolved. Your calls about:
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Study concludes that cryoablation treatment of Atrial Fibrillation was “associated with a lower incidence of persistent atrial fibrillation or recurrent atrial tachyarrhythmia over 3 years of follow-up than initial use of antiarrhythmic drugs.”
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 6, 2023 Source:Atrial fibrillation (A-fib): Ablation surgery may be more effective than drugs Reference:Progression of Atrial Fibrillation after Cryoablation or Drug Therapy
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Public Health Agency of Canada states that 21 cases of COVID subvariant XBB.1.5 have been detected in Canada. If the U.S. is any indication, there will be many more cases to come. Border screening may slow but not stop exponential increases in cases.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 5, 2023 Source:21 cases of COVID subvariant XBB.1.5 detected in Canada, says PHAC
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Scientists discover T-cell overactivation as a key reason why long-COVID patients experience long-term smell loss
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 3, 2023 Source:Scientists discover key reason why long-COVID patients experience long-term smell loss Reference:Persistent post–COVID-19 smell loss is associated with immune cell infiltration and altered gene expression in olfactory epithelium
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A review of invasive group A strep infections given reports of four children contracting the disease in Montreal.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 21, 2022 Source:Doctors worry more kids may be getting sick with invasive strep A. Here are the facts
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Meningitis B vaccine available and recommended for university and college students. Halifax family raising awareness after the death of their 19-year-old son who was studying at Dalhousie University
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 20, 2022 Source:Family renews calls for change after Dalhousie University meningitis death
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Discovery could explain why women are more likely to get Alzheimer’s
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 16, 2022 Source:Discovery could explain why women are more likely to get Alzheimer’s Reference:Mechanistic insight into female predominance in Alzheimer’s disease based on aberrant protein S-nitrosylation of C3
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