Vaccines, volunteers & chutzpah key to Israel’s speedy pandemic response
Volunteer emergency medics with Hatzalah have been key to Israel’s pandemic response. What can other countries learn from this?
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Walking as good as pills for reducing high blood pressure in some: Cochrane analysis
Walking to reduce high blood pressure: the clinical evidence collated by Cochrane researchers
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600 rapid COVID-19 tests done on WestJet passengers at Vancouver airport. Not one yielded a positive result: UBC study
Rapid testing on hundreds of Westjet travellers turns up no COVID cases; executives say it instills confidence in air travel.
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About 500 cases of COVID-19 infections in B.C., one death, among those who’ve been vaccinated
About 500 cases of COVID-19 among B.C. residents who’ve been vaccinated.
Read MoreThe elderly deserve better and the pandemic is our watershed moment to do right by them
GUEST POST BY DAN LEVITT While frontline workers have finally attained long overdue hero...
Read MoreTraumatized nurses should try to practise self-care in the pandemic era
Self-care for traumatized nurses helps restore, rejuvenate and replenish physical and psychological health.
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High levels of PTSD in critical care nurses during pandemic
PTSD common in nurses working in COVID-19 ICU units, research done at Surrey Memorial Hospital finds
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Risky to delay 2nd COVID-19 shots in the elderly because of blunted immune response: B.C. study
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN A small B.C. study that offers an early glimpse into immune function after the...
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Doctoral candidate implores Dr. Henry to introduce mask mandates for B.C. schools
Masks should be mandatory for all students in schools
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120 day gap between COVID-19 vaccinations requires vigilance: B.C. experts
B.C.’s decision to increase the interval between first and second COVID vaccine doses to 120 days requires careful monitoring to ensure safety.
Read More1,591 reports of adverse events from COVID-19 vaccines; two deaths being investigated
Thousands of reports of side effects of COVID-19 vaccines. Two deaths being investigated by Health Canada.
Read MoreDire warnings about cancer diagnosis delays but might the pandemic result in less overtreatment?
Oncologists worry that the pandemic will lead to a tsunami of delayed cancer diagnoses and deaths. But some health policy experts say it may prevent cases of overdiagnosis and treatment.
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Website Author: Pamela Fayerman
I'm an award winning Canadian journalist for nearly four decades. I’ve worked at six daily newspapers, and for 25 years, I was the medical/health issues reporter for The Vancouver Sun and other newspapers in Canada’s largest newspaper chain. My professional development has been assisted with numerous fellowships awarded by the Association of Health Care Journalists, New York Times Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Knight Science Journalism. I’ve received training in various aspects of medical journalism at Columbia University (neuroscience), MIT (medical evidence and digital science journalism), Mount Sinai Medical Center (aging) and Dartmouth College medical school (Medicine in the Media).
I graduated from Ryerson University with a degree in journalism and attended Queen’s University law school on a one-year legal journalism fellowship from the Canadian Bar Association.
I’m the recipient of several prestigious journalism awards as well as two major grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, one for a series on patient navigators and another for a series that focused on knowledge translation as it pertains to fallopian tube removal to prevent ovarian cancer.
My goal for this website is to share valuable information that will help readers learn about health care, research and medical advancements.
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