(Chloe Ranaldi/ CBC Health News) — Though the pandemic has cancelled his daily commute to work, Verdun resident Patrick Lavery still tries to get in 15,000 steps a day.
“With the pandemic and working from home I was very sedentary,” he said. “There were days I didn’t leave the house at all and I put …
(Eleanor Morgan/ The Guardian) — There’s only so much a dog can do, even if that is a lot. I live alone with my staffy, and by week eight of the first lockdown she was rolling her eyes at my ever-tightening clutch. I had been sofa-bound with Covid and its after-effects before lockdown was announced, then spring and summer passed …
(Selena Ross/ CTV News) — Quebec could change its vaccine strategy based on new data out of Israel about the efficacy of the first dose, on its own, of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, says a top adviser in the province.
Israel just provided the world with its first large-scale, real-world hint of how effective the first dose of the Pfizer …
(CTV News) — Beyond the lungs and heart, tobacco can also affect the digestive system, Quebec Council on Tobacco and Health (CQTS) says.
The council took aim at these unknown impacts of cigarettes in its 44th week for a tobacco-free Quebec.
Over time, the CQTS has often tried to educate Quebecers about the harmful effects …
(Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News) — Just when we thought the SARS-CoV-2 virus couldn’t get any more insidious, a new study from investigators at the Yale School of Medicine describes the mechanisms that allow the coronavirus to directly infect the central nervous system.
The new study was performed using …
(Chad Pawson/ CBC Health News) — If you are thinking about how to get into better shape this new year, why not keep it simple with a proven health intervention that’s easy to do and proven to improve people’s health and extend their lives?
It’s walking. And before you say “too bad it’s boring” and …
(Lauren Pelley/ CTV News) — While Lhamo Dolkar worked on the front lines as a registered nurse in the early months of the pandemic, her precautions after coming home from a shift were a stressful but necessary routine.
First, the Whitby, Ont., resident would strip down in her garage. Then she’d rub alcohol on her body …
(Erika Edwards/ NBC Health News) — A drug that could protect high-risk Covid-19 patients from developing severe illness is sitting on shelves unused as a record number of people are hospitalized in the U.S.
On Thursday, public health officials at the federal and state levels pleaded with the country to take advantage of …
(Rhitu Chaterjee/ NPR Health Shots) — With COVID-19 cases still soaring across the U.S., it can be tempting to just ride the winter out on the couch, binging on Netflix. But psychologists say it’s important in 2021 for us all to keep up human contact.
“Isolation and particularly quarantines and …
(Julia Bettina Montgomery, Patricia L. Farnese/ The Conversation) — The University of Saskatchewan’s aspirations to be “the university the world needs” took on tangible meaning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For our colleagues who are health-care professionals or researchers in the areas of infectious …