Health/Sick Care
Learned Lots On Cocaine Use
Cabinet learned a lot from its short-lived experiment in decriminalizing public use of cocaine in British Columbia, Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks said yesterday. The program scheduled to run to January 31, 2026 was abruptly cut short on complaints of public disorder.
“There are a lot of lessons to be learned,” Minister Saks told reporters. “What we know is health supports need to be readily available in a timely manner for those who are seeking help when they’re using substances.”
“Does that close the door to any further decriminalization?” asked a reporter. “Decriminalization is one tool of many,” replied Saks.
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Read MoreThe hasty authorization of the AstraZeneca COVID jab based on third-party assessments, despite significant contamination issues and manufacturing concerns, undermines Health Canada’s mandate of quality assurance and safety oversight.
Health Canada’s swift approval of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccines, based on third-party assessments, is being scrutinized as the manufacturer pulls its product from global markets following court confirmation of blood clot risks — something fact checkers said wasn’t true.
This underscores the importance of addressing the serious manufacturing issues overlooked by Health Canada before authorizing millions of AZ doses for use by Canadians, in a deal that saw contaminated shots imported into Canada from the United States.
A mere few weeks into the declared pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Canadians there would be no end to the civil liberty infringing purported public health measures until a vaccine was available. By the Spring of 2021, he showcased himself and his now-estranged wife receiving their AZ shots, with the rhetoric being that the safest shot is the first one available to you.
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Read MoreThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) informed legislators on Wednesday that the agency is making preparatory measures in case the current avian flu is able to mutate and transmit to humans on a massive scale.
Bird flu, known as H5N1, is often deadly in poultry and can be transmitted to other bird and animal species. The recent outbreak has occurred in dairy cows, alerting experts as to the possibility of wider contamination. The mortality rate for cattle is less than 1%.
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf told the Senate Appropriations Committee that although risk to the public is low, early investment is critical: “If we institute the countermeasures now, and reduce the spread of the virus … we’re much less likely to see a mutation that jumps to humans for which we’re ill-prepared.”
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Read MoreMay 8 (Reuters) – Britain is refusing to sign the World Health Organization’s (WHO) pandemic accord because the country says it would have to give away a fifth of its vaccines, the Telegraph reported on Wednesday.
According to a draft of the pandemic accord being negotiated at the WHO, richer countries should be asked to pull their weight in helping the world cope with pandemics, including reserving 20% of tests, treatments and vaccines for the WHO to distribute in poorer countries during emergencies.
“We will only support the adoption of the accord and accept it on behalf of the UK, if it is firmly in the UK national interest and respects national sovereignty,” a spokesperson for Britain’s Department of Health and Social Care said in a statement to Reuters.
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Read MorePfizer has agreed to settle more than 10,000 lawsuits alleging it it of hiding the cancer risks of its heartburn drug Zantac.
The financial details have not been revealed but pharma rival Sanofi agreed to pay more than $100million to resolve 4,000 Zantac-cancer claims last nonth.
The over-the-counter pill was pulled in the US in 2020 after animal studies found a key ingredient released ‘probable human carcinogens’.
Pfizer was the primary manufacturer of Zantac from 1998 to 2006, when several suits claim it should have known that the drug was contaminated with NDMA.
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Read MoreBreast cancer screening age officially lowered from 50 to 40, amid worrying rise of disease in young women
The age that women should begin regular breast cancer screening has dropped from 50 to 40, according to new official guidance from the US’ chief disease prevention body.
The US Preventive Services Task force (USPSTF) finalized Tuesday the draft recommendation from last year, amid rising cases of the disease in women under 50.
Recommendations from the group are almost always adopted as best practice by physicians across the US.
For instance, the same agency lowered the minimum colonoscopy screening age from 50 to 45 last year.
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Read MoreRosemary’s mom, Judy, was diagnosed with renal cell in April, 2022. She had her right kidney removed in June. Immunotherapy and chemotherapy didn’t help, often with severe side effects. The doctors sent her home to die. Watch this lovely celebration after a year on ivermectin.
Find our review of the published literature showing options for repurposed drugs that can be used in cancer treatment here https://covid19criticalcare.com/reviews-and-monographs/cancer-care/
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Read More“We know that vaccines can have unintended consequences, AKA side effects, but nobody’s really talking about it because they’re too afraid of blame, and they just want it to go away,” Mr. Cuomo said. “But the problem is people like Shaun—and me—and millions of others who still have weird stuff with their bloodwork and their lives and their feelings—you know, physically—are not going away,” he added.
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Read MoreA former CNN host says it was “wrong” for clinicians to “play scared” on the benefits of Ivermectin so that he shared “bad information” with the public.
Chris Cuomo made his comments on a recent episode of the Patrick Bet-David podcast.
“I’ll tell you something else that’s going to get you a lot of hits. I am taking a what do they call it like a regular dose, trying to build up of Ivermectin. Ivermectin was a boogeyman early on,” Cuomo said.
When host Patrick Bet-David said the generic drug was forbidden to mention, Cuomo agreed.
“That was wrong. We were given bad information about ivermectin. The real question is why?” Cuomo said.
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Read MoreAs the epidemic of pediatric constipation grows, the safety of MiraLAX draws scrutiny from parents awaiting completion of decade-long research
Bradley Koehler resembled any four-year-old, always on the move and eager to explore the world around him. Healthy and well-adjusted, he began having episodes of bed-wetting, despite being successfully potty-trained.
Alarmed by this regression, his parents sought medical advice. Doctors found that Bradley was suffering from constipation. The retained stool was exerting pressure on his bladder, inadvertently resulting in the nighttime incidents. His medical team prescribed daily doses of Miralax to alleviate the condition.
Over the next few years, shifts in Bradley’s behavior alarmed his parents. At soccer practice, he began to lash out, his small legs delivering kicks to his peers in bursts of unprovoked aggression. School assignments, which previously captured his interest, were now met with outright defiance—papers crumpled and thrown on the classroom floor. His parents were concerned but chalked his behavior up to him just “being a boy.”
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