GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization is creating a global training center to help poorer countries make vaccines, antibodies and cancer treatments using the messenger RNA technology that has successfully been used to make COVID-19 vaccines. At a press briefing in Geneva on Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the new hub will […]
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GENEVA (AP) — The number of new coronavirus cases around the world fell 21% in the last week, marking the third consecutive week that COVID-19 cases have dropped, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. In the U.N. health agency’s weekly pandemic report, WHO said there were more than 12 million new coronavirus infections last week. […]
If the demographic trends hold, by 2037 — right about the time a lot of Gen Xers will start to get serious about retirement — one-quarter of Canadians will be over 65. It’s hard to imagine what retirement is going to look like for those of us who first watched Ferris on a big screen, […]
MONTREAL – A new international study involving Canadian researchers has found that people who had COVID-19 during the pandemic’s first wave were more susceptible to nightmares — and the worse their infection, the more bad dreams they experienced. The study found that, for some, the experience of a COVID-19 infection was as intense as a […]
Elizabeth Ostrander spent two years on an organ transplant wait list, worrying about her oxygen levels any time she left home and wondering if she’d ever get the lungs she needed. The Niagara, Ont., resident, who was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in 2016, underwent a successful double-lung transplant in November. But she […]
Every weekend, east-end resident Chris Schryer goes for a jump in the lake — no matter how cold it is. “I do it Saturday mornings,” said Schryer, host of the Toronto Beer Podcast. “I get up, I walk the dog, take her home and change into my gear and then walk down to the water […]
VANCOUVER – As a registered psychologist who specializes in stress and anxiety, Dr. Melanie Badali says it’s been difficult to watch some of her wait lists grow over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Two years in, many are dealing with built-up anxiety and depression, and Badali said she wants to help. “It feels horrible […]
Have you noticed that “movement” is having a moment? The word is popping up everywhere as it makes its way into the names of things: fitness classes, studios and training sessions. It’s hip to be in motion. But what exactly is movement? Are they all referring to one type of movement? Or is the “movement […]
VANCOUVER – Traumatic brain injury is so common among the homeless that prevention should be prioritized for people facing multiple challenges and worse outcomes compared with “affluent populations,” says the lead author of a study in Vancouver that monitored participants for symptoms every month for a year. Tiffany O’Connor said rates of brain injury are […]
As several provinces toy with scrapping their COVID-19 vaccine mandates, medical experts allow it may be time to start reconsidering the policy – but caution against dropping the measure too soon. Prevalence of cases among both vaccinated and unvaccinated Canadians has led to calls to nix the vaccine passport system by some who question whether […]