Health/Sick Care
This report shows that excess deaths in Canada continue to be a significant problem in 2022 for all age groups. Excess deaths in 2022 increased to an estimated 37,000 compared to an estimated 21,000 in 2021–an approximate 75 percent increase. Further, as of June 2023, 24 percent of 2022 deaths from all causes were still categorized as “information unavailable” or were attributed to “ill-defined or unknown cause.” Canadian authorities cited excess deaths (when the cause was attributable to COVID-19) as justification for stringent pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. Agencies such as Statistics Canada have provided little analysis of the causes of excess deaths occurring across Canada in 2022. Data releases and reports of causes of deaths have been subject to significant and inexcusable reporting delays. Further, it appears that deaths attributed to COVID-19 may have been overreported, especially in Québec. Citizens must have access to vital statistics if they are to trust and accept government interventions of the kind seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read MoreFood shapes not only how long we live but how good we feel. So what’s the scoop on food and happiness? There’s no doubt that ice cream, cookies, and chips have brought a lot of smiles to a lot of faces. But we also know that there’s more happiness in health than in sickness. Food Revolution Network founder Ocean Robbins shares his remarkable family story, and how food can contribute to a thriving life. #tedx #healthyfood #foodandhappiness Ocean Robbins is co-founder & CEO of the 700,000 member Food Revolution Network. He is author of the bestseller, 31-Day Food Revolution: Heal Your Body, Feel Great, and Transform Your World. Ocean founded Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!) at age 16, and directed it for the next 20 years. He has spoken in person to more than 200,000 people, organized online seminars and events reaching more than a million, and facilitated leadership development events for leaders from 65 nations. He has served as adjunct professor for Chapman University, and is a recipient of the national Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service, the Freedom’s Flame Award, the Harmon Wilkinson Award, and many other honors. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.
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Read MoreAt least 45 percent of Canadians and likely many more contracted Covid, says a Public Health Agency report. The true infection rate was much higher than a federal forecast used to justify lockdowns and other restrictions.
“Almost half of respondents, 45 percent, report they have tested positive for Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic,” said the report Use Of Public Health Measures, Advice And Risk Assessment Survey. “Eleven percent had multiple infections.” Many more Canadians, 89 percent, said they “suspected I had Covid” but were not so sick they visited a doctor or took a test.
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Read MoreThe American Medical Association published an article that explores taxpayer-funded uterus transplants as a solution for transgender women — biological males who believe they are female — to help “consolidate” their chosen gender.
The article, written by Timothy F. Murphy, PhD, and Kelsey Mumford, was published in a June issue of the AMA Journal of Ethics with the title: “Should Uterus Transplantation for Transwomen and Transmen Be Subsidized?”
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Read MoreThe campaign to appeal the serial killer’s conviction appears to have emerged from California
A disturbing fundraiser to appeal Lucy Letby’s conviction has been launched following the sentencing of the former nurse to spend the rest of her life in prison.
The campaign, which has emerged out of California, claims the former neonatal nurse’s trial “may represent one of the greatest miscarriages of justice ever”.
Letby, 33, was convicted of murdering seven babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016 last week.
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Read MoreThe inquiry will focus on the health and social impacts of the pandemic
The Scottish National Party (SNP) has been accused of making it difficult for witnesses to give evidence in a public enquiry about the party’s handling of the pandemic.
The inquiry will take place on August 28 and will scrutinise the Scottish Government’s response to the pandemic, focusing particularly on the health and social care impacts on people.
However, the SNP has come under fire for putting barriers up that will make it harder for people to give evidence at the inquiry.
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Read MoreSightings in the UK have sparked fears they are spreading this summer
Britons are being warned about an invasion of Asian hornets which have now been spotted in London for the first time.
Sightings in the UK have sparked fears they are spreading this summer.
Beekeeper Joel Soo discovered the killer insect at his Thamesmead home on Saturday evening.
While harvesting honey, the 43-year-old spotted one Asian hornet and managed to capture it in a container.
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Read MoreMales who feel they are misunderstood – by their wives or all women in the world – can now heave a sigh of relief. For decades, the Y chromosome – one of the two human sex chromosomes – has been notoriously challenging for the genomics community to sequence due to the complexity of its structure.
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Read MoreIt is a long-established conclusion from the scientific world that face masks achieve no appreciable reduction in viral transmission. We knew this in 2015-16 with regard to surgeons and their patients (here and here). We knew this in 2020 from a gold-standard Cochrane review, an analysis of 14 studies on influenza and a healthcare investigation that concluded that masks “may paradoxically lead to more transmissions”. We knew this in 2021 based on the Danish mask study and two comprehensive evidence reviews (here and here). We knew this in 2022 in relation to primary schools and universities, and a debunking of premature pro-mask conclusions drawn from the Bangladesh study. And – as if more evidence was needed – at the start of 2023 we had the latest Cochrane review, yet again concluding that covering our faces with cloth and plastic does not significantly reduce the likelihood of contracting respiratory viral infections. Yet, despite this collective scream from the scientific community that the ‘MASKS DON’T WORK’, it seems that nothing will muzzle the strident protestations of the mask disciples, such as those at Independent SAGE.
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Read MoreIt started with needles.
They began appearing on the ground around the South Riverdale Community Health Centre with increasing regularity after a new safe injection site opened there in late 2017. South Riverdale is an independent centre built in 1998 in Leslieville, just east of downtown Toronto, home to about 30,000 people. It also happens to be across the street from the house where I have lived with my wife and son for 14 years.
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Used needles also started popping up in the rear lanes on both sides of Heward Avenue, my street. These lanes are playgrounds for the many children who live on these streets, relatively traffic-free spaces where they can ride their bikes, play catch and shoot at basketball and hockey nets.
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