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Sunday House Call, #865, February 12, 2023: Facility fees, co-payments and your private/public insurance plan coverage.
I discussed the comparisons between private health insurance plans (that all politicians and public service employees have) and our public health insurance system in Ontario. There is a disconnect between how we think about these and what is required in order to prevent further deterioration of family practice and primary care services. Your calls about:
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Epigenetic processes seem to be intimately involved in the cellular aging process. Research uncovering the mechanisms of these processes may help reverse the harm from degenerative disease among other conditions.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 10, 2023 Source:Researchers May Have Found a Way to Slow Human Aging Reference:Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian agingReprogramming to recover youthful epigenetic information and restore vision
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First step studying the outcomes of a one-and-done therapy using pegylated interferon lambda demonstrated that it helped curb severe COVID-19 infection-related hospitalizations.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 9, 2023 Source:New one-and-done therapy can help curb severe COVID-19 infection: Canadian-led study Reference:Early Treatment with Pegylated Interferon Lambda for Covid-19
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AI system developed to assist oncologists by predicting the effectiveness of breast cancer chemotherapy. This is just the beginning of AI forays into medicine.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 8, 2023 Source:AI can predict the effectiveness of breast cancer chemotherapy Reference:Cancer-Net BCa: Breast Cancer Pathologic Complete Response Prediction using Volumetric Deep Radiomic Features from Synthetic Correlated Diffusion Imaging
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Study reviews best evidenced-based practices using antidepressant medication for treatment of chronic pain.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 7, 2023 Source:Antidepressants used for chronic pain on the rise, but are they effective? Reference:Efficacy, safety, and tolerability of antidepressants for pain in adults: overview of systematic reviews
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Study prompts doctors to renew recommendations for fallopian tube removal to prevent ovarian cancer
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 6, 2023 Source:Study prompts doctors to renew recommendations for fallopian tube removal to prevent ovarian cancer Reference:Ovarian cancer population screening and mortality after long-term follow-up in the UK Collaborative Trial of Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS): a randomised controlled trialOvarian Cancer Screening and Symptom Awareness Consensus Statement
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Sunday House Call, #864, February 5, 2023: Blatant Hypocrisy: Some publicly-funded family practices are more equal than others. How your tax dollars do not go towards the goal of equity in health care.
In today’s show, I explain how the bleating from those that insist that equity in health care is of utmost importance will cling to their private insurance plans that provide access to health services that are not available to those uninsured Canadians. In Ontario, there are different tiers of publicly-funded family medicine practices, some that…
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Autism rates have tripled. Is it now more common or are we just better at diagnosis? Study concludes the latter.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 3, 2023 Source:Autism rates have tripled. Is it now more common or are we just better at diagnosis? Reference:Prevalence and Disparities in the Detection of Autism Without Intellectual Disability
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The last drug that can fight gonorrhea is starting to falter. Report from Massachusetts Department of Health uncovers new resistant strains to multiple antibiotic regimens.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 2, 2023 Source:The Last Drug That Can Fight Gonorrhea Is Starting to Falter Reference:Department of Public Health announces first cases of concerning gonorrhea strain
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