A recent study indicates that a U.S. ban on the use of tanning beds among minors would prevent thousands of cases of melanoma in adolescents and would save millions of dollars in healthcare costs. The findings are published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
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Amid third wave, University of Toronto’s Homer Tien takes over province’s COVID-19 vaccine task force: CBC
Tien, who’s also a surgeon at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the president and CEO of Ornge, Ontario’s air ambulance agency, replaced retired Gen. Rick Hillier, whose contract expired at the end of March. Tien has been a member of the task force since its inception and was instrumental in executing Operation Remote Immunity, a mission to immunize remote and isolated Indigenous communities.
The province’s vaccination campaign continues to roll out amid supply challenges and a mounting third wave of COVID-19 infections – and Tien is no stranger to high-stress medical operations. In 1996, he was the first medical officer posted to the Canadian military’s counterterrorism team during the NATO mission in Bosnia. A decade later, he was deployed to a field hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan, where he often treated the victims of roadside bomb bl
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Extremely rare cases of blood clots are hampering the rollout of two COVID-19 vaccines that Canada has purchased, as the country recorded its first case of the side effect from the AstraZeneca injection and the U.S. suspended use of the Johnson & Johnson version.
On Tuesday, the United States temporarily stopped its use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine while it investigates reports of a rare and severe type of blood clot in individuals who received the single-dose shot. Similar blood clots have also been reported after the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Both shots use the same vaccine technology, called adenovirus vector.
Ontario is adding hundreds of ICU beds. But does it have the resources to support them?
As ICU admissions continue to soar in Ontario, the province says it s adding 350 more ICU beds by the end of the week. But just how much of an impact can more beds have when health-care experts say critical care is already pushed to the brink?
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Province has touted more beds as a way to help hospitals. But experts say beds alone won’t help
Posted: Apr 14, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 14
Medical staff in the ICU at the Humber River Hospital in Toronto turn a COVID-19 patient who is intubated and on a ventilator from his back to his stomach. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)
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