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Air Pollution May Increase the Risk of Severe COVID-19
This study enforces the idea that air pollution is pervasive and a silent killer.” The study was observational and therefore unable to establish a cause-and-effect relationship. But air pollution could make people more vulnerable to COVID-19 in a number of ways, the researchers hypothesize. For instance, air pollution might increase people’s viral loads by limiting the lungs’ immune responses and anti-microbial activities, the study authors say. It may also increase chronic inflammation in the body and trigger the over-expression of a key enzyme receptor that SARS-CoV-2 uses to enter cells. Since the st...
Source: TIME: Health - May 24, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tara Law Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

First year of COVID-19 pandemic saw fewer Alberta stroke patients, more deaths, study finds
The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta saw fewer stroke patients, but a higher number of stroke-related deaths, according to new research.
Source: CBC | Health - March 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Calgary Source Type: news

After she lost her hair from COVID-19, 7-year-old Regina girl excited about 1st vaccine dose
Cedar Herle was eager to get the pediatric COVID-19 vaccine after experiencing first-hand the long-term effects of the disease. She lost all of her hair after contracting COVID-19 a year ago, while her mother suffered a COVID-related stroke.
Source: CBC | Health - December 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Saskatchewan Source Type: news

After she lost her hair from COVID-19, 7-year-old Regina girl excited for 1st vaccine dose
Cedar Herle was eager to get the pediatric COVID-19 vaccine after experiencing first-hand the long-term effects of the disease. She lost all of her hair after contracting COVID-19 a year ago, while her mother suffered a COVID-related stroke.
Source: CBC | Health - December 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Saskatchewan Source Type: news

Bringing WISDOM to Breast Cancer Care
Dr. Laura Esserman answers the door of her bright yellow Victorian home in San Francisco’s Ashbury neighborhood with a phone at her ear. She’s wrapping up one of several meetings that day with her research team at University of California, San Francisco, where she heads the Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center. She motions me in and reseats herself at a makeshift home office desk in her living room, sandwiched between a grand piano and set of enormous windows overlooking her front yard’s flower garden. It’s her remote base of operations when she’s not seeing patients or operating at the hospita...
Source: TIME: Health - October 22, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news

Ontario man speaks out after father has severe stroke from rare blood clot following AstraZeneca vaccine
An Ontario man whose father suffered a severe stroke from a rare blood clot after receiving the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine is revealing new details about the condition for the first time in hopes of helping Canadians better understand the risk.
Source: CBC | Health - April 24, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news

He had a stroke in N.L., she's in Quebec, and COVID-19 keeps them apart
The isolation, separation and loneliness of the COVID-19 pandemic is felt deeply by a couple who split their time between this province and Quebec. 
Source: CBC | Health - May 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/Nfld. & Labrador Source Type: news

'Distressing' drop in people seeking care for heart attacks in Canada, data suggests
New data analyzed by Heart & Stroke and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society suggests fewer people in Canada are seeking care for serious heart attacks amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: CBC | Health - May 1, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Health Source Type: news