Smokers warned of severe case of Covid-19

CEBU CITY – A Department of Health (DOH)-Region 7 official on Thursday urged local government units (LGU) to ramp up the campaign against smoking amid the coronavirus disease...

AstraZeneca second dose: Should I get the same vaccine or choose Pfizer or Moderna?

People in Canada whose first dose of COVID-19 vaccine was AstraZeneca have a choice to make: They can either choose one of the mRNA vaccines (Pfizer...

Increases in dementia will drive long-term care reform

Canada’s philosophy and approach to supporting seniors in long-term care (LTC) needs a fundamental re-think, including how, why and when people access LTC. We’ve just begun...

PH Covid-19 recovery tally reaches 1.15M

Prince Harry saga: what advice would Carl Jung give?

Prince Harry recently received attention for releasing photos of himself undergoing psychotherapy. But if Swiss psychologist Carl Jung was alive today, he’d be telling those following...

Opioids Like ‘Lean’ Permeate Hip-Hop Culture, but Dangers Are Downplayed

Nykerrius Williams knows about the close relationship between hip-hop and opioid use. Williams, 27, an independent rapper from Gibsland, Louisiana, who goes by the name Young...

Pandemic Leads Doctors to Rethink Unnecessary Treatment

Covid-19 is opening the door for researchers to address a problem that has vexed the medical community for decades: the overtreatment and unnecessary treatment of patients....

Here are answers to 3 persistent questions about the coronavirus’s origins

U.S. President Biden has joined the chorus of calls for more investigation Controversy is once again swirling around the origins of the coronavirus behind the COVID-19...

Stem cell research community drops 14-day limit on human embryo research

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), which bills itself as “the voice of the stem cell research community,” has announced that it no longer...

How to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake and decrease vaccine hesitancy in young people

Ending the coronavirus pandemic rests partly on a large uptake of COVID-19 vaccines, with the goal of reaching herd immunity. Recently in Canada, the age for...