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Study Concludes That You’re More Likely to Get Heart Issues From COVID-19 Than the Vaccine
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 27, 2024 Source:You’re More Likely to Get Heart Issues From COVID-19 Than the Vaccine Reference:Long-Term Prognosis of Patients With Myocarditis Attributed to COVID-19 mRNA Vaccination, SARS-CoV-2 Infection, or Conventional Etiologies
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Whooping cough resurgence in Europe. The reasons are straightforward enough yet…
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 9, 2024 Source:What is whooping cough and should Canadians be concerned as Europe declares outbreak?
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Work on HIV vaccine continue apace with encouraging in vitro results. Now need to find out how well it works in human clinical studies.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 27, 2024 Source:‘Another step closer’: Western University researchers work on cure for AIDS
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A man deliberately got 217 COVID shots. Here’s what happened
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 7, 2024 Source:A man deliberately got 217 COVID shots. Here’s what happened Reference:Adaptive immune responses are larger and functionally preserved in a hypervaccinated individual
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Measles travel advisories, New Canadian Pharmacare not covering the cost of Ozempic for people with type 2 diabetes, and a possible new treatment pathway for people suffering from Crohn’s disease.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 26, 2024 Source:Treating newly-diagnosed Crohn’s patients with advanced therapy leads to dramatic improvements in outcomes
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Gene therapies that let deaf children hear bring hope—and many questions
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 1, 2024 Source:Gene therapies that let deaf children hear bring hope—and many questions
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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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Covid shots may slightly increase risk of stroke in older adults, particularly when administered with certain flu vaccines.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 30, 2023 Source:Covid shots may slightly increase risk of stroke in older adults, particularly when administered with certain flu vaccines
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Health Canada approves Pfizer’s new COVID-19 vaccine targeting Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 29, 2023 Source:Health Canada approves Pfizer’s new COVID-19 vaccine targeting Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant