Ontario Hospitals May Have to Withhold Care as COVID-19 Fills ICUs

TORONTO (Reuters) – Doctors in the Canadian province of Ontario may soon have to decide who can and cannot receive treatment in intensive care as the number of coronavirus infections sets records and patients are packed into hospitals still stretched from a December wave. Canada’s most populous province is canceling elective surgeries, admitting adults to

Life expectancy lower near superfund sites

Living near a hazardous waste or Superfund site could cut your life short by about a year, reports Hanadi S. Rifai, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston. The study, published in Nature Communications and based on evaluation of 65,226 census tracts from the 2018 Census, is

No evidence of an increase in risk of suicide in first months of the pandemic, but continued monitoring needed

A new observational study is the first to examine suicides occurring during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in multiple countries and finds that suicide numbers largely remained unchanged or declined in the pandemic’s early months. The study is published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal. The authors note that—while their study provides the best

12% of Children With COVID Are Hospitalized, Study Says

About 12% of U.S. children with COVID-19 were hospitalized in 2020, and nearly a third of those had severe disease that required mechanical ventilation or admission to an intensive care unit, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open on Friday. That means about 1 in 9 kids with COVID-19 needed hospitalization, and

What Is Fenugreek, And Does It Help With Weight Loss?

If you find that changing up your diet and exercise routine isn’t getting you to 100 percent of your weight-loss goals, it’s understandable that you might at least want to see what kind of naturopathic options are out there. And there’s ingredient you’ll see come up a lot in that search: fenugreek. Fenugreek (pronounced “feh-nyuh-greek”)

Super Cute One-Piece Swimsuits for Your Baby on Amazon

When you’re searching for your little babe’s swimsuit, you’re looking for a soft suit that will protect their delicate skin. One-piece bathing suits for babies usually include a rash guard, so your baby’s upper half is encased in what looks like a wetsuit. The entire suit has a UPF rating of 50+, so it will

Did catching Covid-19 help these patients fight cancer?

Did catching Covid-19 help these patients fight cancer? One saw his tumours vanish, another went into remission. Now doctors are asking if their immune response was key – and if it could also be triggered by the vaccine When doctors at a hospital in Cornwall carried out a follow-up check last summer on a 61-year-old

UK reports highest number of new COVID cases since April 1

FILE PHOTO: Nurses react as they treat a COVID-19 patient in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) at Milton Keynes University Hospital, amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Milton Keynes, Britain, January 20, 2021. REUTERS/Toby MelvilleLONDON (Reuters) – Britain reported the highest number of new COVID cases since April 1 on Monday, with

Better treatment for aggressive prostate cancer

New research from CU Cancer Center member Scott Cramer, Ph.D., and his colleagues could help in the treatment of men with certain aggressive types of prostate cancer. Published this week in the journal Molecular Cancer Research, Cramer’s study specifically looks at how the loss of two specific prostate tumor-suppressing genes—MAP3K7 and CHD1 —increases androgen receptor