Category: Health & Medicine

https://i.cbc.ca/1.6004022.1619557624!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/covid-ont-pharmacy-vaccination-20210419.jpg Every day, more and more Canadians are vaccinated against COVID-19. It has often been suggested that as this trend continues, we will soon reach a point where so many people are invulnerable to the virus that it will largely die Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.6014314.1620194208!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/health-coronavirus-vaccine-austria.JPG An Alberta woman in her 50s has died from a rare blood clot condition after receiving the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, says the province’s chief medical officer of health. In a statement Tuesday, Dr. Deena Hinshaw said the woman died of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT). Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.6012828.1620124863!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/1232680387.jpg The latest: COVID-19 infections and deaths are mounting with alarming speed in India with no end in sight to the crisis, and a top public health expert is warning of hard weeks ahead. India’s official count of coronavirus cases Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.6011235.1619987538!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/40-pharmacy-vaccine.jpg Dr. Sumon Chakrabarti empathizes with other Canadians who have reported common side effects after receiving their COVID-19 vaccines. After his second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, he had a low-grade fever and joint pain. But Chakrabarti, an infectious diseases physician at Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.6010841.1619912201!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/1315605080.jpg The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is now recommended for all Canadians over 30, but officials say to weigh the risk of rare but potentially serious blood clots that can occur from the vaccine with the COVID-19 levels in their community Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.6011536.1620047350!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/1316048366.jpg Even after more than a year of devastating coronavirus surges across the world, the intensity and scale of India’s current crisis stands out, with patients desperate for short supplies of oxygen, pleas for help from overwhelmed hospitals, and images Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.6007344.1619715908!/cumulusImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/vaccine-clinic-at-black-creek-community-health-covid-toronto.jpg Ontario reported another 3,436 cases of COVID-19 on Monday, as eligibility for vaccines opened to all residents aged 18 and older in hot-spot areas. Adults living in the 114 specific postal codes designated as hot spots were able to Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.6009891.1619817679!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/covid-que-20201219.jpg Itching to travel again? You’re not alone. One Ottawa travel agency says people are booking Caribbean and resort vacations for as early as this September and cruises are quickly filling up for next year. “A lot of people are booking Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.6007607.1619722224!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/covid-19-humber-vaccine-villa-columbo-ltch.jpg This is an excerpt from Second Opinion, a weekly roundup of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers every Saturday morning. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. After months of anxiously waiting, many newly Read more …

https://i.cbc.ca/1.5999689.1619819559!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/covid-cda-20210115.jpg It was a Friday in February and Canada’s COVID-19 situation seemed to be improving. The second wave had crested. Just over 3,000 cases were reported countrywide that day, Feb. 19, down from a peak of 8,766 six weeks earlier.  Read more …