Pandemic life happened here: work calls by day, home-cooked meals by night, a baby’s first delightful laugh. And now it’s hard to imagine having to leave. Every morning at 8:30, I’d put on a sweatshirt and yoga pants, brush my hair and slather on tinted moisturizer and a smack of lip balm. Destination: dining table….
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Towards a New Frontier in Medical Education
Ryerson is embarking on an exciting new chapter that will help shape the future of health care in Canada. It’s time to build a medical school as diverse as the community its doctors serve. As part of the Intersections Lectures Series, Alumni Relations of Ryerson University is hosting this webinar event. On Tuesday December 14…
Vaccine allergy? Experts say most past reactions not valid reason for exemptions
Some patients concerned about receiving 2nd mRNA dose if they had adverse reaction to the 1st Dr. Mariam Hanna noticed an uptick in requests for allergy assessments in her Burlington, Ont., clinic after the province began implementing COVID-19 vaccine certificates last month. Whether people have held off on getting vaccinated because of a past reaction or…
‘Really good’ Medicago COVID-19 vaccine data bolster hopes for a Canadian shot
A vaccine developed by Quebec-based Medicago Inc. has shown greater than 70-per-cent efficacy against a range of COVID-19 variants in a large-scale clinical trial, the company said on Tuesday. The outcome bolsters Medicago’s bid to become the first COVID-19 vaccine maker in Canada to get a product to market for use either as a booster shot or as a…
The investigation of experiences among LGBTQ+ Asian Canadian youth’s mental health and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic
RESEARCHER BIOS AND HOW THEIR RESEARCH BACKGROUNDS RELATE TO THIS STUDY Dr. Todd Coleman (he/him) is an assistant professor at the Department of Health Science at Wilfrid Laurier University. His research area is in population health and research methods. He works with various community organizations to conduct research on the health outcomes of 2SLGBTQIA+ populations,…
AIM Resilience Dialogues Part II
Asian Initiative In Mental Health (AIM)Resilience Perspective Webinars- PART II FAMILY RESILIENCE:Facing Stress and Chronic Illness Together SPEAKERS:Kenneth Fung, MD FRCPC MSc FAPA DFCPAJenny Liu, PhDColina Yim RN(EC), MN DATE/TIME:Saturday Dec 18, 2021 – 1 – 3 PM ET Session in English and Chinese, with simultaneous interpretation in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin Free registration via…
Which COVID-19 booster shot should I get? Your questions answered
Also: Do COVID-19 boosters protect against the omicron variant? As the omicron variant continues to spread, many of you have been writing to us about COVID-19 booster vaccines. We have been listening and posing your most-common questions to the experts. Here’s what they have to say. Am I eligible for a booster shot? That depends…
‘No parents should have to bury their child’: How a Canadian funeral home owner is trying to stop suicides among international students
Tucked away in an expansive industrial park filled with factories and warehouses, a funeral home in north Toronto hosts a gathering of people to mourn the death of a young international student from India. It’s the sixth death of an international student the funeral home’s owner has seen in a month. On this recent week…
Ontario’s modelling shows COVID busting out. But Dr. Kieran Moore sounds like a man boxed in
Sometimes the fog of war lifts, and what is left is a moment of clarity. Tuesday, with Omicron popping up and Delta already on the march, Dr. Kieran Moore was asked: given the worrisome modelling from earlier in the day, and given the worry that the good doctor had shown on the subject, why isn’t Ontario…
Multigenerational households a factor in covid-19 ethnic disparities
People in the UK of Bangladeshi or Pakistani heritage are more likely to live in households that include schoolchildren and people aged 70 or older – a factor that may explain why people from these backgrounds were more likely to die from covid-19 during the country’s second wave People of Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in…