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Sunday House Call, #914, February 18, 2024: The Walls are Crumbling Down.
The family doctor shortage continues apace with dire and likely accurate warnings of an almost doubling of Ontarians without access to a family doctor within two years to four million people given that 1.7 million have a doctor older than 65 years of age. Two stories hit home this week about why two physicians have…
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FDA approves first treatment for severe frostbite
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 16, 2024 Source:FDA approves first treatment for severe frostbite
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Drug used for cocaine addiction may treat advanced colon cancer, uOttawa researchers find. However still a ways to go. Great science work. Human trials to follow.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 15, 2024 Source:Drug used for cocaine addiction may treat advanced colon cancer, uOttawa researchers find Reference:The dopamine transporter antagonist vanoxerine inhibits G9a and suppresses cancer stem cell functions in colon tumors
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An Oregon resident was diagnosed with the plague. Here are a few things to know about the illness and also the etymology of the word boo boo and the theory behind the relationship between iron overload and surviving the plague.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 14, 2024 Source:An Oregon resident was diagnosed with the plague. Here are a few things to know about the illness
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Trying to kick a nagging cough? It often just takes patience and time, physicians say. A foray into the natural history of viral upper respiratory tract infections.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 13, 2024 Source:Trying to kick a nagging cough? It often just takes patience and time, physicians say
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‘We have a very large problem’: Why Ontario is dealing with syphilis rates it hasn’t seen in decades
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 12, 2024 Source:‘We have a very large problem’: Why Ontario is dealing with syphilis rates it hasn’t seen in decades
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Sunday House Call, #913, February 11, 2024: The resurgence of measles. Rinse and repeat
How the anti-vaccine movement is downplaying the danger of measles. I discuss that although the impetus for this is based on the goal to protect children, the outcomes are resulting in the opposite. Your Calls and Comments:
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Study looks at organ-specific blood plasma proteins to track organ age and disease risks.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 9, 2024 Source:Scientists can now predict which of your organs will fail first Reference:Organ aging signatures in the plasma proteome track health and disease
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Specific memory B cells implicated in food and allergy and allergic rhinitis
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 8, 2024 Source:Researchers say they’ve found the ‘smoking gun’ for tackling life-long allergies Reference:CD23+IgG1+ memory B cells are poised to switch to pathogenic IgE production in food allergy