Switzer Daily
Co-authored by Dr Stephanie Mathieson
Back pain. If you haven’t experienced it, you are part of a small
percentage of people across the world that have been lucky. For those who have
had an episode of back pain, it may have been a short-lived experience, but it
can turn into a nightmare for others. Low back pain has been the leading cause
of years lived with disability since 1990, not just here in Australia, but
across the world (1). It continues to be a global public health problem.
Surely by now we know how to beat the problem of back pain? The
Dr. Qanta Ahmed
Senior Fellow
Dr. Ahmed is a physician, non-fiction author and broadcast media commentator. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Spectator, Al Jazeera, The Independent, USA Today, The Daily Beast, the World Policy Journal, Fox News, CNN, and many others.
Dr. Ahmed is the first physician, and first Muslim woman, to be awarded the Templeton-Cambridge Fellowship in Journalism at the University of Cambridge, England.
In 2012, she testified to Congress on Radical Islam in the United States. She subsequently has provided Congressional Briefings at the invitation of Congressional Staff on the issues of Palestinian child radicalization in the Disputed Territories. In 2016, she was nominated to Life Membership at the Council on Foreign Relations in the United States in recognition of her journalistic work focusing on Islamism.
Jess Peck Miller II
HAMPTON Dr. Jess Peck Miller II, 88, died Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, among family at his home. He was born in North Carolina in 1932, and was raised with his three brothers in Staunton, Virginia, and Wilmington, Delaware.
He graduated from the College of William & Mary and earned his medical degree from the University of Virginia, where he lived on the Range. He finished his medical training at University Hospital in Cleveland, where he met and married a beautiful and warm-hearted nurse named Patricia Namy. After two years of Navy service as the medical officer on a submarine, he and Pat moved the family to Hampton in 1964 where they have lived ever since. Together they raised seven children.
Dalhousie researchers study insomnia to address Canadian sleeping pill usage
16% of older adults in Nova Scotia use sleeping pills and Atlantic Canada has the highest rates in the country
Jan 31, 2021 1:59 PM By: Chris Stoodley
Dalhousie University researchers are studying insomnia in response to sleeping pill usage in Canada.
Atlantic Canada has the highest rate of sleeping pill usage among older adults in the country.
In Canada, an average of 10 per cent of people 65 and older regularly use sleeping pills. In New Brunswick, that rate is 25 per cent; in Nova Scotia, it s 16 per cent.
“Our focus is on those who are most vulnerable to the plagues of sleep as well as the plagues of sleeping pills in terms of their side effects,” David Gardner, a professor in Dalhousie University’s department of psychiatry and college of pharmacy, told NEWS 95.7.
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