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- 11/15/2020
How our instincts to be healthy are making us sick
For the past thousand years, our lifespans have been slowly and steadily increasing. With the exception of somewhat unscheduled plagues and wars, each generation has enjoyed their years on our planet a slight bit longer than the previous. That is, until now. Rather shockingly, new research indicates that segments of the population have begun, just recently, to experience a reversal of this thousand-year long trend. Moreover, while other wealthy nations around the world continue to see a steady march toward longer lives, mysteriously, the reversal in lifespan is, thus far, only evident in the United States. - 11/15/2020
CFPC launches family medicine Indigenous health supplement
The document discusses seven key CanMEDS-FM roles: the family medicine expert, communicator, collaborator, leader, health advocate, scholar and professional—defining each in the context of Indigenous tradition. - 11/15/2020
Cough and cold: trends in treatment
- 11/14/2020
Little miss perfect: a portrait
Lakshmi gave every appearance of being perfect. Her marks in undergraduate medical school were exceptional. She was intelligent, well prepared, charming and efficient. Always beautifully dressed, her hair was professionally blown out, her nails never ragged or chipped. Unlike the other often frazzled and sleep-deprived members of her resident cohort, she never looked flustered, exhausted and overworked. - 11/14/2020
Pharmacists helping pharmacists
- 11/12/2020
Chains, independents partner with U.S. Health and Human Services to distribute COVID-19 vaccine
Ahead of vaccine approval, pharmacies have been named key immunization sites by the U.S. health agency - 11/12/2020
5 Tips: Enhancing adherence to inhaler therapy
Whether being used to treat asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, respiratory inhalers have very high nonadherence rates at 30%-to-70%. - 11/12/2020
Your COVID-19 long haulers IQ
- 11/12/2020
Assisted dying bill sparks ferocious debate among Canadians with disabilities
Bill C-7 attempts to strike a balance between an individual's right to personal autonomy and self-determination and the need to protect vulnerable people who might feel pressured—either directly or indirectly by societal attitudes and a lack of support services—into seeking medical help to end their lives.