Health/Sick Care
The Ottawa Police Service has hired local law firm Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall to assist its discreditable conduct case against detective Helen Grus. On Monday, day 15 of Grus’ disciplinary tribunal, it was learned that firm partners Jessica Barrow and Lynda Bordeleau – former OPS chief Charles Bordeleau’s wife – have joined the prosecution.
They were retained by OPS after Grus’ defence team of Bath-Sheba van den Berg and Blair Ector filed a motion to have police’s lead counsel, Vanessa Stewart, tossed from the case for professional misconduct. During cross-examination of a defence witness last January, Stewart compared Grus’ calm demeanour to that of serial rapist and double murderer Russell Williams.
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Read MoreStrand Therapeutics, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) spinout, has developed a new class of advanced mRNA molecules for more targeted and powerful treatments for cancer.
The new class of mRNA molecules is designed to sense what type of cells they encounter in the body and express therapeutic proteins once they have entered diseased cells.
Most next-generation cancer immunotherapies are based on recombinant proteins, which are challenging to deliver to specific targets in the body and do not remain active for long enough to create a durable response.
Strand has developed the world’s first mRNA programming language to improve mRNA molecules’ ability to sense their environment and generate targeted responses where needed most, allowing the company to specify the tissues its mRNAs express proteins in.
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Read MoreOn Episode 31, we tell you about the firing of an Ontario librarian whose apparent crime was trying to diversify the collection; we walk you through a heart-breaking decision by a Calgary judge to allow a woman with autism to access assisted-death over her father’s objections, and we share our new polling that shows Canadians are ready for major change on health care.
Stories and cases discussed in this week’s episode:
Most Canadians want ‘major changes’ to healthcare system new research finds
Calgary judge rules woman with autism can seek Medical Assistance in Dying
Premier Ford clarifies fourplex comments despite insisting it would be a ‘disaster’
Niagara-on-the-Lake library board fires CEO Cathy Simpson
Monica Harris: The unjust firing of Ontario librarian who challenged DEI orthodoxy
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Read MoreThe number of people on long-term sick leave in the United Kingdom (U.K.) has risen by 700,000 since the spring of 2021, coinciding with the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, according to healthcare commentator John Campbell, Ph.D.
Campbell highlighted the trend in a March 21 video, which focused on an exchange in the Houses of Parliament between members of Parliament Andrew Bridgen, who raised the issue, and Mel Stride, who dismissed Bridgen’s concerns.
During the exchange, Bridgen said the number of long-term sick individuals in the U.K. had risen from 2.1 million pre-pandemic to 2.8 million.
“The huge increase started in spring 2021, at the same time as the rollout of the experimental emergency use vaccines,” Bridgen said. “Or does the minister have an alternative explanation?”
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Read MoreOne January morning in 2021, Carol Rosen took a standard treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Three gruesome weeks later, she died in excruciating pain from the very drug meant to prolong her life.
Rosen, a 70-year-old retired schoolteacher, passed her final days in anguish, enduring severe diarrhea and nausea and terrible sores in her mouth that kept her from eating, drinking and eventually speaking. Skin peeled off her body. Her kidneys and liver failed.
“Your body burns from the inside out,” said Rosen’s daughter, Lindsay Murray, of Andover, Massachusetts.
Rosen was one of more than 275,000 cancer patients in the U.S. who are infused each year with fluorouracil, known as 5-FU, or, as in Rosen’s case, take a nearly identical drug in pill form called capecitabine.
These common types of chemotherapy are no picnic for anyone, but for patients who are deficient in an enzyme that metabolizes the drugs, they can be torturous or deadly.
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Read MoreModerna announced positive clinical trial data on three experimental vaccines and said it will move those shots to final stage studies.
The update brings the biotech company a step closer to having multiple products on the market, which it badly needs amid plunging demand for Covid shots worldwide.
Moderna will chart its post-Covid future Wednesday during its fifth annual “Vaccines Day,” an investor event in Boston.
Those vaccines include a shot against norovirus, a highly contagious stomach bug that causes vomiting and diarrhea; a vaccine against Epstein-Barr virus, a common herpes virus that can cause contagious infections and is associated with some cancers; and a shot designed to target a virus that causes shingles and chickenpox.
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Read MoreQuebec is still struggling to attract medical students to family medicine, a trend experts warn must be reversed to address the shortage of family doctors in the province.
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Read MorePharmacists are angry, frustrated and concerned about their ability to deliver safe and effective patient care as corporate pressures to perform billable services mount, according to the Ontario College of Pharmacists.
In an extraordinary statement Tuesday, Registrar and CEO Shenda Tanchak said the college had gathered compelling and troubling information about the extent and impact of growing “corporate-centric” pressures on pharmacists during a recent series of virtual town halls and written submissions from thousands of pharmacy professionals.
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Read MoreThe urge by the WHO for countries to sign onto its ‘Pandemic Accord’ comes after Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis warned provisions contained in the document would give the globalist group unreasonable power over Canadian citizens.e globalist World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an “urgent” call for countries around the world to sign on to their sovereignty-undermining “Pandemic Accord” by May.
In a March 20 press release, the WHO called for “accelerated progress” from countries joining their proposed treaty, the Pandemic Accord, which critics such as Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis have warned would give the WHO increased power over Canada in the event of another “pandemic” or other so-called emergencies.
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Read MoreDNA integration associated with the modified mRNA shots is an issue. It is an issue because cancer. Let’s break it down like a nuclear membrane during mitosis. When cells divide, their nuclear membrane has to break down and be re-formed as part of DNA copying and distribution to daughter cells.1 Any foreign DNA that might have found its way into the cell could get packaged into the nucleus when the nuclear membranes reform. It could also get into the nucleus via transport by nuclear location sequences like SV40.2
Getting foreign into nucleus: not a problem.
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