Dr. Barry Dworkin

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  • Study flags Canada’s growing burden of chronic gut disease

    May 14, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 14, 2025 Source:Study flags Canada’s growing burden of chronic gut disease Reference:Global evolution of inflammatory bowel disease across epidemiologic stages

  • Denmark, amongst other countries with high HPV vaccination rates and cervical cancer screening programs, could eradicate cervical cancer by 2040: study

    May 6, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 6, 2025 Source:Denmark could eradicate cervical cancer by 2040: study

  • Tackle these 17 health factors to lower your risk for dementia, stroke and depression, study says

    April 7, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 7, 2025 Source:Tackle these 17 health factors to lower your risk for dementia, stroke and depression, study says Reference:Modifiable risk factors for stroke, dementia and late-life depression: a systematic review and DALY-weighted risk factors for a composite outcome

  • Ontario reports 78 new measles cases, nearly doubling count in ongoing outbreak

    February 28, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 28, 2025 Source:Ontario reports 78 new measles cases, nearly doubling count in ongoing outbreak

  • Bird flu genetically combining with human flu strains is a concern and is being actively monitored by health organizations like the Public Health Agency of Canada among others.

    February 19, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 19, 2025 Source:The danger of bird flu mixing with human flu? A potential pandemic

  • New recommendations to measure obesity are more helpful than using only body mass index or BMI

    January 22, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 22, 2025 Source:BMI is wrong way to measure obesity, researchers say — here’s what they recommend instead

  • China experience a surge of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) infections. It is not a new virus and for most healthy people it is a mild illness. It does not pose a pandemic risk.

    January 7, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 7, 2025 Source:Hospitals in China overwhelmed by surge in HMPV patients raising concerns about a new epidemic

  • Knowing the average life expectancy decline with cigarette smoking, what time is lost off your life if you break it down to per cigarette use? There are caveats.

    January 6, 2025

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 6, 2025 Source:A single cigarette slashes 20 minutes off your life expectancy, U.K. research suggests Reference:The price of a cigarette: 20 minutes of life?

  • Same old top-down advice from academics and bureaucrats trying to solve the family doctor shortage. Perhaps it would he advisable to ask physicians who actively manage their practices/businesses what it would take to improve the working environment to attract family doctors to join?

    December 18, 2024

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for December 18, 2024 Source:Number of family doctors in Canada now growing at a slower pace: report Reference: While family physician growth has slowed, pan-Canadian data indicates primary health care workforce is expanding

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