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Study looking at effects of grocery store sales of alcohol on emergency dept visits should lead to more questions and further evaluation
Health Headlines Commentary for April 1, 2019 Source: New study shows that selling alcohol in grocery stores results in more hospital visits Reference: The association between alcohol access and alcohol‐attributable emergency department visits in Ontario, Canada
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Sunday House Call, #689, March 31, 2019: “I haven’t got time for the pain”
Sunday House Call, #689, March 31, 2019: “I haven’t got time for the pain” Topics today include: A Scottish woman who feels no pain and has no fear discovered to have a genetic mutation that increases our understanding of pain and its possible management in the future. Your calls about: Vertigo and sinus congestion Back…
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Welcome to the Bizzaro World where anti-vax pseudoscience is used by an arbitrator to support a mother’s anti-immunization stance even after the children developed whooping cough during the arbitration period.
Health Headlines Commentary for March 29, 2019 Source: Arbitrator sides with Ontario parent who refuses to immunize children, cites anti-vaccination ‘expert’
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Anti-vaxxer demographics in all its pseudoscientific glory
Health Headlines Commentary for March 28, 2019 Source: Who are the anti-vaxxers? Here’s what we know — and how they got there in the first place
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Life-threatening emergencies like heart attack or stroke get immediate care as they should. Why are people suffering from drug addiction who are at high risk of harm or death treated differently with limited resources to save their lives?
Health Headlines Commentary for March 27, 2019 Source: Ottawa Public Health sends out alert after three fatal overdoses on Monday
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Wednesday House Call, March 27, 2019
Wednesday House Call, March 27, 2019 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to discuss the latest health stories of the week. Today: We talk about a 19 year-old woman who died of meningicoccal B meningitis. How to control a nose bleed. Why it is not recommended to tilt your head back. How to determine if…
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Walking-talking test for early detection of cognitive decline in fully functional people is in its early stages and clinical relevance requires further evaluation.
Health Headlines Commentary for March 26, 2019 Source: Study probes possibility of walking-talking test to predict dementia
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Cannabis marketing mimics tactics once used to promote Oxycontin.
Health Headlines Commentary for March 25, 2019 Source: ‘Marijuana is the new Oxycontin’: Should we be concerned with how docs are learning about pot?
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Sunday House Call, #688, March 24, 2019: How much is a child’s life worth? If you are an herbalist in California dispensing quackery resulting in a child’s death, not very much.
Sunday House Call, #688, March 24, 2019: How much is a child’s life worth? If you are an herbalist in California dispensing quackery resulting in a child’s death, not very much. Topics today include: The tragic outcome of a 13 year-old boy with diabetes whose parents were given bad advice and treatment by an herbalist…
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