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No causation can be drawn from cow’s milk study stating that it helps kids grow taller
Health Headlines Commentary for June 8, 2017 Source: Does drinking cow’s milk help children grow taller? Reference: Association between noncow milk beverage consumption and childhood height
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Wednesday House Call June 7, 2017: When superlice attack, duck and cover and shave your head!
Wednesday House Call June 7, 2017 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to discuss the latest health stories of the week. Today: Paramedic triage at the scene, superlice, and your calls!
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Plan to allow paramedics to triage ER necessity at the scene is a good idea as long as they agree with this scope of practice
Health Headlines Commentary for June 7, 2017 Source: New Ontario ambulance system aims to better prioritize calls
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Bone marrow tranplant turns off one facet of allergic asthma response in mice. No correlation to people yet.
Health Headlines Commentary for June 6, 2017 Source: This new gene therapy could help ‘turn-off’ asthma! Reference: Allergen-encoding bone marrow transfer inactivates allergic T cell responses, alleviating airway inflammation
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Fitness trackers are not reliable calculating caloric expenditure
Health Headlines Commentary for June 5, 2017 Source: Fitness trackers ‘poor at measuring calories burned’ Analysis: Fitness trackers’ calorie measurements are prone to error Reference: Shcherbina A, Mattsson CM, Waggott D, et al. Accuracy in Wrist-Worn, Sensor-Based Measurements of Heart Rate and Energy Expenditure in a Diverse Cohort. Journal of Personalised Medicine. Published online May…
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Sunday House Call, #616, June 4, 2017: Attention all shoppers, there is fluoride in you beer and pass the pasta!
Sunday House Call, #616, June 4, 2017 Topics today include:Organic acids in animal feed do just as well as antibiotics with causing antibiotic resistance, Big Pasta’s study showing how beneficial eating pasta is for kids (what a surprise), the measles outbreak in Minnesota now exceeds the total number of measles cases for the US in…
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Death Cap mushrooms live up to their name despite being “natural”
Health Headlines Commentary for June , 2017 Source: ‘Death Cap’ Mushrooms Sicken 14 in California Reference: Amanita phalloides Mushroom Poisonings — Northern California, December 2016
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Oft-cited journal letter identified as impetus for opioid prescription increases
Health Headlines Commentary for June 1, 2017 Source: How a 1980 letter on drug addiction fuelled the opioid epidemic
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Reversal of elementary school peanut ban in Montreal needlessly endangers young children
Health Headlines Commentary for May 31, 2017 Source: Montreal’s French school board implements new food allergy policy
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