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Keenan: Reseachers are 'in this together' to solve rare diseases

COVID-19 has been a great educator. Members of the public now toss around terms like viral load, safety, efficacy and herd immunity, often using them quite correctly.

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Researchers around the world are working together to solve rare diseases.

Books

Book review: Scathing indictment of how Canadians treat their elderly

Long-time health journalist André Picard’s new book says sweeping changes are needed across the seniors care sector

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André Picard, author of Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve The Lives of Canada’s Elders in the Wake of the Pandemic, says among other things that new care facilities, smaller and less institutional, should be part of our elder-care reforms.

Health

How 'excess deaths' show COVID's real impact, and point to better ways of combating pandemics

Canada and most other countries have seen significant rates of 'excess deaths' during the pandemic — many more people dying than the average for previous years

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According to a Statistics Canada report last month, this country saw 13,798 more deaths than would be expected by mid-December of 2020, based on previous years and after accounting for the aging population.

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Covid-19 variant from Brazil discovered in Calgary, Drayton Valley, Edson and Hinton

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Canada has triple the number of cases of the COVID-19 variant P.1 than the U.S.

Here's everything you need to know about the worrisome P.1 variant first identified in Brazil

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Health workers transport a COVID-19 patient in Manaus, Brazil in January.

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Canada's blood supply stays healthy during the pandemic due to fewer surgeries, loyal donors

Canadian Blood Services operates as a national inventory and donated blood can be used anywhere in the country, no matter where it is collected

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Canadian Blood Services has seen a drop in first time donors, but those that regularly donated blood before the pandemic have continued to do so.

Life

'Cold water, warm community': For some, winter swimming has become an antidote to pandemic isolation

While COVID has disrupted many of our social lives, health, and sense of sanity, hordes of people are flocking to cold-water swimming to help them cope

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Adam Kreek (centre), Fraser Thomson and Patrick Walter exit the water at Mt. Douglas Park in Victoria on March 26.

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News

Conversations That Matter: B.C. makes strides in online health care

B.C. had world-leading digital health options before the pandemic hit

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April 2, 2021 News

Dr Sylvain Moreno of Digital Health Circle.

Life

Foraged ingredients and craft bitters for sober-curious consumers

It was a few months back that JoAnne Pearce was feeling the Ice-Olation Blues. Tired of pandemic lassitude and the ensuing uptick in drinking, the Edmonton-based graphic designer and marketing consultant became entranced with mocktails, non-alcoholic takes on classic cocktails. She began inventing booze-free, Halloween-themed drinks to entertain herself. Pleased with her results, she began uploading the photos onto social media, giving her the dopamine hit she once got from a glass of wine or a highball. “Getting all of those ‘likes’ on Instagram was my transfer addiction,” jokes Pearce, author of the just-released recipe collection Mock-Ups: Mocktails for Grown-Ups. “I was making these spooky drinks like a Vampire Bloody Mary, or one with a white grape made to look like an eyeball with fennel simple syrup. It hit the point where I was waiting for the work day to end so I could go try the next idea.”

April 1, 2021 Life

JoAnne Pearce, founder of Mock-Ups: Mocktails for Grown-ups, makes a Butterfly Fuzz using coconut, cardamon, lime, egg and cream.

Health

Mock-Up recipes rewrite the mocktail playbook

You won’t find any of the usual lame recipes for Virgin Mojitos or Shirley Temples in Mock-Ups: Mocktails for Grown-Ups , a recipe book of non-alcoholic beverages with all the creativity and stylings of craft cocktails.

April 1, 2021 Health

JoAnne Pearce released Mock-Ups, a recipe booklet of her creative mocktails, in mid-March.

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Canada

Toronto health group abruptly cancels project that would see some young people get COVID vaccine now

The changes seem to underline the political sensitivities around Canada's painfully slow vaccine rollout, where the hint of queue jumping is quickly snuffed out

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March 31, 2021 Canada

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AstraZeneca COVID shots could test Canadians' vaccine hesitancy: 'There is no way they can downplay that risk'

'The more transparent they are about communicating what is known about possible risks the more that could undermine trust in vaccination'

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March 31, 2021 Canada

The latest controversy over AstraZeneca “presents an enormous challenge for vaccine risk communication,” a Canadian professor says.

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Immune response may be linked to AstraZeneca vaccine clot issue; death risk rising among young adults in Brazil

The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus.

March 30, 2021 Health

A vial of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is prepared in a vaccination centre at Newmarket Racecourse, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Newmarket, Britain March 26, 2021.

Canada

'A very clear shift': Younger people getting sicker, faster with COVID, doctors say

It’s not clear what’s driving that shift, but doctors say highly contagious variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are undoubtedly playing a role

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March 29, 2021 Canada

People sit at a restaurant patio to take advantage of sunny weather in Ottawa, March 20, 2021.

PostPandemic

Suicide deaths have declined during the pandemic, but experts warn the toll might be yet to come

Suicides are a complex issue, and experts caution that the downward trend in death rates in 2020 does not tell the whole story

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March 29, 2021 PostPandemic

"There's not a straight line between distress and suicide," one psychiatrist says.

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For the COVID-vaccinated in Canada, a void in public health advice: ‘They seem to be working on it’

With 9.5 million combined doses due to be delivered by the end of March, many will soon be wondering, I've had my shot, now what?

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March 25, 2021 Canada

“It’s a little bit too early” to issue new directions on what people can or shouldn't do once vaccinated, Canada's Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam said this week.

World

If ever there were a season to wish for a cold, this might be the one

Can the solitary rhinovirus overcome coronavirus' social animal?

March 24, 2021 World

The virus that causes COVID-19 is very social; it likes to open doors for others to come in and spread illness.

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Stem cells from umbilical cords might be the answer for severely ill COVID patients: Canadian researchers

As many as 40 per cent of COVID patients in the intensive-care unit never make it out

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March 24, 2021 Health

Dr. Duncan Stewart of Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, who is conducting a trial using a type of stem cell obtained from umbilical cords to treat patients made severely ill by COVID-19.

News

They kill jobs, overwhelm treasuries, harm mental health but COVID lockdowns work, science suggests

Still, for many lay people and some doctors and scientists , the question has become: Was it all worth it?

March 22, 2021 News

Like it or not, restricting human-to-human contact has been key to curbing the spread of COVID-19.

Diet & Fitness

Penner: The pull and power of Writing-On-Stone

It’s fifteen minutes before sunset and I am, seemingly, trapped in a maze of stone-capped hoodoos and shady slot canyons. Tantalizingly, 20 metres above me, the day’s last rays are burning red on the rocky spires and flooding the Milk River Valley with a red-orange glow. I need to get up there, I’m thinking, to photograph the scene from the top. I keep wandering on the Hoodoo Trail and, eventually, reach a set of chiselled stairs heading up to a high point. Bingo! I clamber up the sun-kissed knob, catch my breath, and feel the power of Writing-On-Stone glazed in golden light.

March 20, 2021 Diet & Fitness

The author enjoying last light at Writing-On-Stone

Credit: Andrew Penner

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Diet & Fitness

Last: The Alberta advantage is access to world-class wines

Over the decades that I’ve been writing this column, I’ve pointed out on many occasions that Alberta enjoys the best selection of wine in Canada, hands down. I can’t help but notice that the haters seem to enjoy picking on us these days, mostly due to the impact of our oil and gas industry and the disproportionate amount of wealth it generated. (Can we have those transfer payments back in that case?)

March 20, 2021 Diet & Fitness

Calgary has many specialty shops where you can find some of the best wines from around the world.

Seniors

Shragge: The fine art of 'imagineering' seems to have been lost

My generation used to play games — board games, card games ... games with cardboard boxes! I know I'm not the only one, writes Sherv Shragge.

March 18, 2021 Seniors

June Harris knows the versatility of a cardboard box when you're a kid.

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Men

Keenan: We are all hikikomori

The 1965 book, You Are All Sanpaku , by Sakurazawa Nyoiti, left a real impression on me, both for its content and its delightfully accusatory title. It introduced the macrobiotic diet to the Western world and argued powerfully that we have lost touch with our bodies and the natural forces of the universe. Nyoiti claimed this makes people prone to ill health, violence, and accidents.

March 13, 2021 Men

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Before and after COVID-19: How the world has changed in a year, in 37 photos

This month marks the one year anniversary of Canada swiftly moving into lockdown after the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic

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March 12, 2021 Canada

Quebec

Dubé lashes out at Catholic bishops for suggesting some vaccines are more 'morally acceptable'

The bishops suggested that Catholics should "prefer" the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines because they have less direct connection to abortions.

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March 11, 2021 Quebec

Keenan: Reseachers are 'in this together' to solve rare diseases

Book review: Scathing indictment of how Canadians treat their elderly

How 'excess deaths' show COVID's real impact, and point to better ways of combating pandemics

Covid-19 variant from Brazil discovered in Calgary, Drayton Valley, Edson and Hinton

Canada has triple the number of cases of the COVID-19 variant P.1 than the U.S.

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Mock-Up recipes rewrite the mocktail playbook

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Toronto health group abruptly cancels project that would see some young people get COVID vaccine now

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'A very clear shift': Younger people getting sicker, faster with COVID, doctors say

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For the COVID-vaccinated in Canada, a void in public health advice: ‘They seem to be working on it’

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Stem cells from umbilical cords might be the answer for severely ill COVID patients: Canadian researchers

They kill jobs, overwhelm treasuries, harm mental health but COVID lockdowns work, science suggests

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Last: The Alberta advantage is access to world-class wines

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Keenan: Reseachers are 'in this together' to solve rare diseases

Book review: Scathing indictment of how Canadians treat their elderly

How 'excess deaths' show COVID's real impact, and point to better ways of combating pandemics

Covid-19 variant from Brazil discovered in Calgary, Drayton Valley, Edson and Hinton

Canada has triple the number of cases of the COVID-19 variant P.1 than the U.S.

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For the COVID-vaccinated in Canada, a void in public health advice: ‘They seem to be working on it’

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Stem cells from umbilical cords might be the answer for severely ill COVID patients: Canadian researchers

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