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on May 17, 2021
Stanford Medicine held its first virtual Health Matters, an annual week-long event run by Stanford Medicine designed to educate the public on advances in medicine and wellness, from May 10 to 15. All talks were open to the public, and medical experts covered topics including Asian-American health care, violent conflict, applying for medical school, among others. The Daily attended three of the week’s events, each detailed below.
Addressing gaps in Asian-American health care
Latha Palaniappan M.S. ’01, highlighted the gaps in medical care for Asians and Asian Americans in a May 12 Health Matters talk.
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Ottawa plans to announce who will replace Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin as the head of Canada’s vaccine rollout as soon as Monday, according to two government sources. The sources, who iPolitics assured it wouldn’t name in order for them to share information they otherwise wouldn’t be able to, are well-connected to the decision about who will takeover for Fortin, the rollout’s original logistics’ operator and planner, who stepped down Friday night, “pending the results of a military investigation,” as the Department of National Defence said in a press release.
iPolitics By Janet E Silver. Published on May 17, 2021 5:30pm Natural Resources Minister Seamus O Regan (Matthew Usherwood/iPolitics)
Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan says he’s confident his government has done the right thing by filing an
amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Federal Court last week in support of Enbridge’s controversial Line 5 pipeline.
An
amicus curiae brief, Latin for “friend of the court,” is filed to support or oppose the position of one of the sides in court, and contains information that may not have been presented before.
The minister was responding to a question about Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s claim that the state has the jurisdictional “ability to determine the location of pipelines.”
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