Toronto's SickKids Hospital is advising parents of changes to access to some over-the-counter fever and pain medicine for children, due to a nationwide supply shortage of Advil and Tylenol. In a let… [+2251 chars]
New York health officials announced in July that an unvaccinated adult man from Rockland County had been diagnosed with poliothe first case of the life-threatening disease in the United States since … [+6285 chars]
New research led by scientists at Mass Eye and Ear and Brigham and Women's Hospital, member hospitals of Mass General Brigham, reveals the role that a genetic variant associated with Alzheimer's dise… [+7629 chars]
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Low levels of a stress hormone called cortisol can also indicate the lingering symptoms post a Covid infection, according to a study not peer-reviewed yet. Long Covid is defined as having new or ong… [+2085 chars]
<li>Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Weekly Epidemiological Update (20 April 2022) World. ReliefWebhttps://reliefweb.int/report/world/coronavirus-disease-covid-19-weekly-epidemiological-update-20-apri… [+13964 chars]
Article content (Bloomberg) The World Health Organization is asking for the publics help in renaming the monkeypox virus, part of an ongoing effort to discourage harmful misconceptions associated wi… [+2743 chars]
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A team of researchers led by Penn State has been awarded $4 million from the National Science Foundation to investigate the elements that lead to the spread of Lassa virus from… [+3554 chars]
In a recent study published in Pediatrics, researchers assessed the prevalence of neurologic complications in children hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Study: COVID-19 and Acut… [+5411 chars]
This rare form of blood cancer is little known among Canadians Della Krieger, a retired Sudbury education superintendent, with members of her family. Krieger is battling multiple myeloma, a little-… [+4255 chars]
University of Manitoba professors are making headlines around the world for a recent discovery that a frequently used medical care device provides inaccurate results for people of colour, leading doc… [+3741 chars]
Matthew Miller, director of McMasters Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, says better strategies are needed to protect people from flu pandemics. (Photo by Matt Clarke/McMa… [+3744 chars]
