TORONTO Public health and housing advocates are demanding the return of eviction bans across Canada and feel their arguments are bolstered by a new study that found the policy stopped the spread of COVID-19. People who were evicted and the households that took them in had a 1.5-to-2.5-fold higher risk of being infected than if eviction bans were in place, researchers at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania found. Although many provinces enacted eviction bans early on in the pandemic, by autumn 2020, most of those provinces rescinded those policies, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
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Provectus Biopharmaceuticals Announces Acceptance of PV-10® Immunotherapy Abstracts at American .
Provectus Biopharmaceuticals Inc.April 28, 2021 GMT Intralesional (aka intratumoral) PV-10 administration for treatment of hepatic metastatic neuroendocrine tumors ( NCT0269367 ) Systemic administration of PV-10 for treatment of solid tumor cancers
KNOXVILLE, TN, April 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Provectus (OTCQB: PVCT) today announced that two abstracts about data from clinical and preclinical study of investigational cancer immunotherapy PV-10 (rose bengal disodium) were accepted for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2021 Annual Meeting, which will be held June 4-8 online.
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The Alberta government recently introduced a bill that will make it much more difficult to obtain compensation from health facilities and professionals who provided negligent care during the COVID-19 pandemic. This bill is backed by the Alberta Continuing Care Association who lobbied the government to limit their liability following many deaths and several legal challenges against their members.
Bill 70, the COVID-19 Related Measures Act, would set a higher, more stringent standard for negligence claims brought against health facilities as a result of individuals contracting or being exposed to COVID-19. Under the bill, there can be no legal claim for injuries related to COVID-19 such as the loss of a parent or grandparent unless the facility failed to make “a good faith effort” to comply with public health laws and guidance and its conduct amounted to “gross negligence.”
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Kingston Today, Queen’s University announces the launch of Elentra Corp, an integrated teaching and learning platform that is transforming health sciences education.
Elentra was developed by a team of software developers in the Queen’s School of Medicine’s IT department in collaboration with an international consortium of 20 medical schools. Elentra Corp is the first-ever Queen’s owned and controlled corporation. Based in Kingston, Ontario, the corporation now employs 17 people in the region.
Originally intended as tool to organize data around the stringent requirements for the Queen’s School of Medicine’s accreditation process, the Elentra platform has matured into a solution that addresses the academic needs of health sciences programs including curriculum mapping, assessment and evaluation, competency based education (CBE) and online exam delivery. Elentra now serves more than 30 institutions in Canada, the United States, Singapore and