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Dr. Barry Dworkin

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  • Free prescription drugs could reduce overall health-care costs in Canada: study

    May 30, 2023

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 30, 2023 Source:Free prescription drugs could reduce overall health-care costs in Canada: study Reference:Effect of Free Medicine Distribution on Health Care Costs in Canada Over 3 Years

  • Hormone therapy should be offered to more women with severe menopause: review

    May 17, 2023

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for May 17, 2023 Source:Hormone therapy should be offered to more women with severe menopause: review Reference:A pragmatic approach to the management of menopause

  • FDA approves new pill developed to reduce the risk of re-infections by repopulating microbiome after patients complete antibiotic treatment for C. difficile

    April 28, 2023

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 28, 2023 Source:FDA Approves First Pill for the Microbiome

  • Health Canada approves new antibody drug to help prevent serious RSV in babies

    April 24, 2023

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for April 24, 2023 Source:Health Canada approves new antibody drug to help prevent serious RSV in babies

  • University of Calgary researchers to look at aging brain as study provides association but not causal link between vitamin D intake and prevention of dementia. Observational nature of study did not have the power to account for confounding variables.

    March 2, 2023

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 2, 2023 Source:University of Calgary researchers to look at aging brain as study says vitamin D prevents dementia Reference:Vitamin D supplementation and incident dementia: Effects of sex, APOE, and baseline cognitive status

  • Ottawa Public Health concerned about measles as March break approaches.

    March 1, 2023

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for March 1, 2023 Source: Measles a growing concern as March Break approaches

  • Prostate Cancer screening blood test uses a combination PSA and epigenetic markers to improve accuracy and reduce false positive results. Further evaluation in larger population cohorts recommended by study authors.

    February 14, 2023

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for February 14, 2023 Source:New blood test may be 94 per cent effective at spotting signs of prostate cancer Reference:Circulating Chromosome Conformation Signatures Significantly Enhance PSA Positive Predicting Value and Overall Accuracy for Prostate Cancer Detection

  • Study prompts doctors to renew recommendations for fallopian tube removal to prevent ovarian cancer

    February 6, 2023

    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

  • Alzheimer’s Research UK has developed an online brain check-up tool that aims to cut risk of dementia at any age

    January 23, 2023

    Medical Mythbusting Commentary for January 23, 2023 Source:Dementia: Brain check-up tool aims to cut risk at any age

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