Doctors offer duelling views of what it s like to receive an assisted death
by Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press
Posted Feb 3, 2021 4:00 am EDT
Last Updated Feb 3, 2021 at 4:14 am EDT
OTTAWA Senators have been presented with two starkly different descriptions of what it’s like to receive medical assistance in dying in Canada: a beautiful, peaceful death or a painful end akin to drowning.
The duelling descriptions came from two doctors during testimony Tuesday night at the Senate’s legal and constitutional affairs committee, which is scrutinizing Bill C-7.
The bill would expand Canada’s five-year-old regime for medical assistance in dying (MAID) to include people who are suffering intolerably but not near the end of their natural lives.
Send A close-up on snake skin helped scientists work out what might help certain snakes navigate sandy surfaces.
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When it comes to slithering, most snakes do it the same way: straight ahead. But for snakes that live in deserts, getting around can be a challenge. âAs we know from trying to move on sand in a beach or other places, it can be difficult to move on these materials that yield underneath you as you move forward,â said Jennifer Rieser, a professor of physics at Emory University in Atlanta.
Thatâs why sidewinders slither sideways. Although some snakes can move laterally under certain conditions, Dr. Rieser said, sidewinders â the common name for a group of three distantly-related vipers found in the deserts of Africa, the Middle East and North America â have raised this unique form of movement to an art. The sidewinding rattlesnake, for example, can travel at speeds of 18 miles per hour, making it the faste
Luck, foresight and science: How an unheralded team developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time
Credit for Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine belongs in part to discoveries dating back 15 years. The team behind it was inspired by two infant deaths.
David Heath and Gus Garcia-Roberts, USA TODAY
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9:25 pm UTC Jan. 31, 2021
Credit for Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine belongs in part to discoveries dating back 15 years. The team behind it was inspired by two infant deaths.
David Heath and Gus Garcia-Roberts, USA TODAY
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9:25 pm UTC Jan. 31, 2021
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Barney Graham, Kizzmekia Corbett, Anthony Fauci, Jason McLellan, Derrick Rossi and Luigi Warren
Feb. 1, 2021
Marcus Stanley s presentation was pulled from a Texas health department conference after he refused to take white supremacy out of its title.
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Late last August, Marcus Stanley, M.P.H. a gay Black man who is the project officer on the Gilead COMPASS Initiative (which funds HIV prevention efforts throughout the South) at the University of Houston was delighted to hear that an abstract he’d authored with his COMPASS colleague, Samira Ali, Ph.D., LMSW, was accepted by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) for inclusion in its December HIV/STD conference, to be held virtually because of COVID-19.