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Canadian children face an ongoing mental health crisis during COVID-19.
The harm to children is such that a new campaign called #CodePink is underway to get governments to act immediately.
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Code Pink is the term used to declare a pediatric emergency exactly the current state of affairs in this country, with children’s hospitals reporting a 100% increase in suicide attempt admissions, a 200% jump in substance abuse disorder admissions, and a sharp rise in rates of child abuse. There also has been a disturbing increase in cases of infants with fractures and head trauma, for example, since September 2020.
OTTAWA Canada s top children s hospitals, including CHEO, are declaring a mental health emergency among children and youth as the COVID-19 pandemic wears on. School closures, the lack of access to sports and recreational programs, and social isolation have resulted in children being one of the hardest hit populations during the COVID-19 pandemic, a release said. Advocates describe what they call staggering numbers of increases to suicide attempts and substance-use disorder admissions. Suicide attempt admissions have increased by 100 per cent on average during the pandemic, the release says. Admissions for substance-use disorders have increased by 200 per cent. It goes on to say that 70 per cent of children ages 6 to 18 have said the pandemic has harmed their mental health.
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(Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, Toronto) Results of a world-first Canadian pilot study on patients treated with gene therapy for Fabry disease show that the treatment is working and safe.
The Canadian research team was the first to use gene therapy in 2017 to treat patients with Fabry disease, a rare, chronic illness that can damage major organs and shorten lives. They report their findings today in the journal
Canadian pilot study uses gene therapy to successfully treat patients with Fabry disease
Results of a world-first Canadian pilot study on patients treated with gene therapy for Fabry disease show that the treatment is working and safe.
The Canadian research team was the first to use gene therapy in 2017 to treat patients with Fabry disease, a rare, chronic illness that can damage major organs and shorten lives. They report their findings today in the journal
Nature Communications. Being one of the first people in the world to receive this treatment, and seeing how much better I felt afterward, it definitely gives me hope that this can help many other Fabry patients and potentially those with other single gene mutation disorders, says Ryan Deveau, one of the participating patients in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Now that I don t have to get the replacement therapy every two weeks, I have more time to spend with my family.