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Federal Government asking pharma to stop marketing opioids
Health Headlines Commentary for June 27, 2018 Source: Ottawa asks drug companies to stop marketing opioids
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C. difficile infection rates dropping at Canadian hospitals
Health Headlines Commentary for June 26, 2018 Source: ‘Remarkable drop’ in C. difficile infections at Canadian hospitals Reference: The evolving epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Canadian hospitals during a postepidemic period (2009–2015)
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No study, just hypothesis that the amino acid arginine found in hemp (and produced in abundance by your own healthy body) can lead to high blood pressure treatment. Good luck with a compound that has a half-life of 2-6 seconds.
Health Headlines Commentary for June 25, 2018 Source: Hemp protein could positively affect high blood pressure: Study Reference: No study published.
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Excellent basic science study looks at certain viruses as a contributing factor to the development of Alheimer’s
Health Headlines Commentary for June 22, 2018 Source: New evidence that viruses may play a role in Alzheimer’s Reference: Multiscale Analysis of Independent Alzheimer’s Cohorts Finds Disruption of Molecular, Genetic, and Clinical Networks by Human Herpesvirus
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Mouse study shows that caffeine can stimulate diabetes drug release from implant. Overhype drives this article and raises questions how you would control caffeine dosing and why use it in the first place.
Health Headlines Commentary for June 21, 2018 Source: Could coffee replace insulin injections for diabetics? Reference: Caffeine-inducible gene switches controlling experimental diabetes
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Wednesday House Call, June 20, 2018: When the ticks come marching in.
Wednesday House Call, June 20, 2018 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to discuss the latest health stories of the week. Today: Ticks in Ottawa. The resource burden on family physicians’ offices to report vaccination records to public health is delayed by new Ontario government. Infrastructure was not ready. Your calls about: Using antiviral tablets…
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Ottawa Public Health targeting undervaccinated population. Adults should get a blood test to ensure they are still immune to mumps, measles, and rubella.
Health Headlines Commentary for June 20, 2018 Source: Public health unit targets under-vaccinated Ottawans
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Early findings of a study based on survey data cannot predict with any certainty that millennials will be less healthy in the future compared to their parents
Health Headlines Commentary for June 19, 2018 Source: Millennials may be less happy and healthy than their parents by middle age Reference: Early release of data. No publication source.
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Is “gaming disorder” a real mental health diagnosis?
Health Headlines Commentary for June 18, 2018 Source: WHO classifies ‘gaming disorder’ as mental health condition Reference: Gaming disorder
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