(Nicoletta Lanesse/ Live Science) — If a woman catches COVID-19 during pregnancy, can her baby pick up any immunity to the virus in the womb? Early data hint that the answer is yes, but many questions still remain.
In a new study, published Jan. 29 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, scientists analyzed blood samples from …
(Kirsten Fenn/ CBC Health News) — As health-care workers feel the exhaustion of the pandemic setting in, some doctors say medical organizations must do more to prevent burnout among front-line employees.
“During the early phases [of the pandemic], we actually had a little bit of a galvanization and a calling that …
(CTV News) — The work of a Montreal researcher could lead to identifying which children have a genetic predisposition to cancer, allowing them to be closely monitored and, hopefully, lead to an early diagnosis of the disease.
There are believed to be more than 125 types of genetic predispositions to cancer in young people, …
(Matthew Kupfer/ CBC News) — Clinics and other resources that help young people in Ottawa deal with mental health issues say they’ve noticed a significant spike in demand for their services since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold.
Kids Help Phone says calls and texts from young people in Ottawa have more than doubled …
(Medical XPress) — A Quebec research team has discovered two early plasma markers to detect Alzheimer’s disease five years before its onset. The results of this recent study led by the doctoral student Mohamed Raâfet Ben Khedher and postdoctoral student Mohamed Haddad, directed by Professor Charles Ramassamy …
(Nicoletta Lanese/ Live Science) — A personalized “cancer vaccine” may help keep a deadly form of skin cancer from growing for years, a small new study in humans suggests.
Unlike vaccines that prevent infections, such as measles and influenza, cancer vaccines are a form of immunotherapy that …
(Toula Drimonis/ Cult MTL) — “We have been pushed to the breaking point,” says Natalie Stake-Doucet, president of the Quebec Nurses Association. “More than 2,000 nurses in Quebec have quit since the pandemic hit. Hospital administrations and the Ministry of Health need to look at the structural problems forcing them …
(Bethany Ao, Aubrey Whelan/ The Philadelphia Inquirer) — In July, Erica Rodriguez, 20, checked herself into the Renfrew Center, a residential center for eating-disorder treatment in the Philadelphia area. Rodriguez, who has been struggling with disordered eating since she was 12, had relapsed in quarantine.
“It had
(Jeremy Faust/ New York Magazine) — Once the size of the COVID-19 crisis was clear, and the obvious measures we could take to stop it politicized, I became convinced that vaccines alone were our best path out of this hellscape. The obligatory selfies posted by my fellow frontline health-care providers getting their shots …
(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 …