July 30, 2021 Neurology Researchers report concerns about dementia following COVID-19 infection but the data is incomplete and much greater numbers of well-conducted studies need to be done to determine if there is a causal link.
July 29, 2021 Addiction Philip Morris CEO states that cigarette sales to end in UK within 10 years and will be replaced with a harm-reduction IQOS (Tobacco Heating System) product approved by the FDA
July 28, 2021 Emergency Medicine Doctors and air pollution experts express growing concern about wildfire smoke and its deleterious health effects as the fires are becoming a more regular occurrence.
July 27, 2021 Infectious Disease Pandemic-related public health measures reduced rates of Respiratory Syncytial virus (RSV) infection in infants and children. Resurgence anticipated as measures ease this coming winter. #RSV
July 25, 2021 Sunday House Call Shows Sunday House Call, #800, July 25, 2021: What does Emergency Use Authorization mean? Misinformation abounds but in short, the vaccine is approved. #vaccineswork
July 23, 2021 General information Some COVID-19 myths that refuse to die come with important caveats. With time, some of them become accepted facts with supporting evidence, others become misinformation that are difficult to dislodge. #vaccineswork
July 22, 2021 Addiction Study reports that there is spectrum of perceived disengagement from the world they coin boredom proneness, the degree of which can relate to a range of mental health outcomes and behaviours.
July 20, 2021 Health Headlines Sunday House Call, #799, July 18, 2021: Health-care workers: No jab, no job.
July 20, 2021 Food Study reviewed nutrient composition between ground beef and veggie burgers. It notes product labels implying nutritional equivalence is not supported in their analysis. It is not promoting one over the other just awareness that they differ.
July 19, 2021 Allergy/Immunology Review of available evidence indicates that compounds within cleaning products may contribute to the development of childhood allergies and not the elimination of the microbes/allergens. In short, they say the hygiene hypothesis is incorrect.
