Canada government will help Toronto as it struggles with COVID-19, says PM Trudeau

OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Canadian government will help Toronto as the country’s largest city struggles to cope with a rapidly worsening wave of COVID-19, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Friday.FILE PHOTO: The team lead from Humber River Hospital’s mobile vaccine clinic, Ruben Rodriguez, administers the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to an employee of pharmaceutical company Apotex, […]

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How to Use the Ab Wheel Correctly

Today’s ab routines are more versatile than ever. Sure, you can slog through sets of situps and rounds of planks over and over again. But, more and more, core workouts incorporate tools like Swiss balls, medicine balls, dumbbells and kettlebells. And if you’re looking for one more way to mix up that ab training, then it’s time to consider the […]

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Supertrafficking ion channel found to be arrhythmia culprit

The potassium channel KCNQ1 plays a critical role in the cardiac action potential—the electrical activity underlying heart muscle contraction. Inherited mutations resulting in loss of channel function or gain of function (GOF) cause heart rhythm abnormalities. Charles Sanders, Ph.D., and colleagues surveyed known disease-linked GOF mutations in KCNQ1 and found that seven of 15 increased the amount of KCNQ1 that […]

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Fauci expects Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine will 'get back on track' soon

CDC advisory panel delays vote while J&J vaccine info is collected FOX News correspondent Jonathan Serrie joins ‘Special Report’ with the details America’s leading infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told Reuters Thursday he hopes federal health authorities can reach a conclusion on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine “quickly and get back on track.”  Fauci’s comments came a day […]

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Mycosis Fungoides Hospitalizations Longer for Blacks, Hispanics

Black and Hispanic patients had higher inpatient care utilization for mycosis fungoides (MF) — and were admitted at a younger age — compared with White patients, according to an analysis of the 2012-2017 National Inpatient Sample (NIS). The findings are consistent with prior studies implicating earlier and more severe disease in Black and Hispanic patients, and reinforce the importance of accurate […]

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Sweat sensor could alert doctors, patients to looming COVID cytokine storm

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors recognized that patients who developed a “cytokine storm”—a surge of pro-inflammatory immune proteins—were often the sickest and at highest risk of dying. But a cytokine storm can also occur in other illnesses, such as influenza. Today, scientists report preliminary results on a sweat sensor that acts as an early warning system for an impending […]

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