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Ontario Hospital Association calls rising ER wait times ‘worrying’
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 17, 2022 Source:Ontario Hospital Association calls rising ER wait times ‘worrying’
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Student and teacher naloxone training program to thwart opioid overdose deaths is an excellent idea and will save lives.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 16, 2022 Source:Students, teachers across Canada to be offered naloxone training to combat overdoses
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Study in Nature outlines how in vitro and in vivo (mouse model), specific white blood cells (B-Cells) can be genetically programmed to produce anti-HIV antibodies thus offer a one-time treatment for the disease. Long way to go but elegant study design.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 15, 2022 Source:A “One-Time” Treatment for HIV Could Be on the Horizon Reference:In vivo engineered B cells secrete high titers of broadly neutralizing anti-HIV antibodies in mice
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ROLLING STONE – “Anti-Vaxxers Are Flipping Out Over Justin Bieber’s Facial Paralysis”. There is no evidence of a connection between COVID vaccine and Ramsay Hunt Syndrome. It is not known if he had the vaccine after getting COVID in Feb ’22.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 13 and 14, 2022 Source:What is Ramsay Hunt syndrome? Justin Bieber’s diagnosis explainedROLLING STONE – Anti-Vaxxers Are Flipping Out Over Justin Bieber’s Facial Paralysis Reference:Justin Bieber, Ramsay Hunt syndrome, SADS, and how to antivaxxers everything is always about vaccines
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Sunday House Call, #839, June 12, 2022: Physicians around the campfire singing Kumbaya to solve the health care crisis and burnout
Although the Ontario Medical Association’s intention goal is to provide empathy for physicians suffering from burnout, as expressed in their latest Ontario Medical Association email, it does not address nor will it alleviate the real reasons for this predicament. I discuss one of likely many actionable solutions to improve patient access to their family practice…
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The science behind the small colon cancer trial success is what provides optimism for the future of cancer treatment but the study itself is too small to state that it is the “cure” for colorectal cancer.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 10, 2022 Source:Small Cancer Trial Resulted in Complete Remission for All Participants Reference:PD-1 Blockade in Mismatch Repair–Deficient, Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer
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Moderna releases data on Omicron version of their vaccine.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 9, 2022 Source:Moderna says experimental combination COVID-19 vaccine appears to work against Omicron
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The myriad and litany of reasons why family doctors are burned out and retiring. In 32 years of practice, all governments have failed because they purport to know more about family practice than we do, enforcing dogmatic solutions; and all pay the price.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for June 7, 2022 Source:Burned out, closing practices: Family doctors warn health-care situation will likely get worse
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