This antidepressant may help dial back the body’s immune response to COVID-19
(Claire Gillespie/ Health) — The COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been the main focus of attention over the last few months—more than 90 million doses have been administered since distribution began on December 14, at a rate of more than 2.2 million shots per day. But at the same time, scientists have continued to work hard to
Here’s what to expect when you go to get your COVID-19 vaccine
(Padraig Moran/ The Current) — Before she got her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine last week, Vivian Musni was issued some strict instructions by her kids.
“They told me like, ‘Mommy, can you just take a picture? I want to see,'” said Musni, who works in administrative support at Altum …
COVID-19: a heavy toll on health-care workers
Montreal study finds colorectal cancer on the rise among younger Canadians
(CTV News/ The Canadian Press) — A study out of Montreal has found colorectal cancer is on the rise in younger people, a phenomenon that experts don’t really understand, but which they find concerning.
However, nutrition, inflammation and the microbiome, or the intersection between the three, may have something …
COVID-19 can kill heart muscle cells, interfere with contraction
(Science Daily) — A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis provides evidence that COVID-19 patients’ heart damage is caused by the virus invading and replicating inside heart muscle cells, leading to cell death and interfering with heart muscle contraction. The researchers used …
You’ve got to move it, move it!
(Science Daily) — One in four women over age 65 is unable to walk two blocks or climb a flight of stairs. Known as mobility disability, it is the leading type of incapacity in the U.S. and a key contributor to a person’s loss of independence.
Published in the February 23, 2021 online issue of JAMA Network Open, researchers …
Drug relieves chronic pain without the addiction risk
(Laura Bailey-Michigan/ Futurity) — According to some estimates, chronic pain affects up to 40% of Americans, and treating it frustrates both clinicians and patients—a frustration that a hesitation to prescribe opioids often compounds.
Naltrexone is a semi-synthetic opioid first developed in 1963 as an oral alternative …
Pandemic has caused an increase in antidepressants use in Quebec
(CTV News/ Associated Press) — A comparison of the consumption of antidepressant drugs between 2019 and 2020 in Quebec shows a significant increase, according to findings from pharmacists, who associate the phenomenon with the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The compilations established by the Quebec Association …
She was in agony since age 13. Then a hospital diagnosed her with endometriosis
(Julie Landry/ CBC News) — Kim will never forget the moment the specialist touched her arm and believed her.
She had been living with excruciating pain for more than half her life, yet, she says, a long list of doctors had either misdiagnosed or dismissed her condition.
It was only when she was treated at a special unit of B.C. …