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Sunday House Call, #911, January 28, 2024: Betrayal and Slimy Politics
Information from the Ontario Medical Association is bad news for family doctors who are trying to stay afloat and maintain their practices. Doctors are being held accountable and responsible for population increases and demands on providing care. Your Calls and Comments:
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Some physicians advocating renaming low-grade cancers as “not cancer”. I do not think this is the correct path to take. It seems a bit patronizing presume how patients will respond to the news of their diagnosis.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 26, 2024 Source:The Cancer That Doctors Don’t Want to Call Cancer
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How COVID-19 vaccines and infections are tweaking our immunity to respond better than anticipated or extrapolated.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January , 2024 Source:How COVID-19 Vaccines and Infections Are Tweaking Our Immunity Reference:TGFβ prevents IgE-mediated allergic disease by restraining T follicular helper 2 differentiation
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New centre of excellence established at the Ottawa Heart Institute for rare cardiac diseases.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 24, 2024 Source:Heart Institute establishes world’s first centre of excellence for rare cardiac conditions
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Carrying emergency Aspirin for use for suspected heart attack can help reduce the risk of further heart damage. If used, you must call 911 for further assessment and treatment.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 23, 2024 Source: Bill found this company that sells the FOBS. Not an endorsement. For example purposes only.
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A Canadian school has eased its nut ban, but it’s not a given others will follow
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 22, 2024 Source:A Canadian school has eased its nut ban, but it’s not a given others will follow
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Sunday House Call, #910, January 21, 2024: Sticking with your brand.
As insurance companies make it more difficult for patients to remain on brand-name medications that they have taken for decades, especially those on psychotropic medications, there is a work-around for some meds using the innovicares and viatrisoriginals cards. These make up most of the difference in cost between the brand-name and generic versions of the…
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FDA approves AI scanner that increases the physician’s accuracy in identifying skin cancers like basal and squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 19, 2024 Source:FDA Approves AI Device That Helps Spot Skin Cancer
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How Long Does It Take to Get COVID-19? Here’s What a New Study Says
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 18, 2024 Source:How Long Does It Take to Get COVID-19? Here’s What a New Study Says Reference:Digital measurement of SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk from 7 million contacts
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