Cassandra Szklarski
Dr. Jordan Feld, a liver specialist at UHN s Toronto Centre for Liver Disease, poses in this recent handout photo. More than a year after COVID-19 emerged, few therapies exist and many that do are expensive, cumbersome and unproven, say experts who blame disjointed data, funding and communication as factors derailing efforts to tamp down disease. While warp speed efforts to develop vaccines have produced several promising options in mere months, thereâs been comparatively little push for treatment tools to cut severe cases and deaths that are crippling health-care systems, says COVID-19 researcher Dr. Feld.
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How a ‘powerhouse’ reached the brink of collapse and a new owner’s plan to rebuild
Updated on Feb 12, 2021;
Published on Feb 11, 2021
Easton Hospital was acquired by St. Luke s University Health Network on July 2, 2020. Saed Hindash | For lehighvalleylive.com
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It s been less than a year since Easton Hospital nearly closed after serving as a community bedrock for more than a century. This story explains what happened and what the future holds.
Once a community bedrock, Easton Hospital today shows all the signs of a hospital on its last legs.
But new owner St. Luke’s University Health Network is optimistic it can overcome financial and operational hurdles to turn the beleaguered Wilson Borough hospital around.
Playdium finally opening at Dartmouth Crossing (6 photos)
The launch of the long-awaited 30,000 square foot amusement centre was delayed approximately six months due to the pandemic
Feb 11, 2021 4:50 PM By: Steve Gow
After about a six-month delay due to the ongoing pandemic, Cineplex Entertainment is finally set to open Atlantic Canada’s very first Playdium entertainment complex.
The long-awaited amusement centre will feature 30,000 square feet of interactive video games, 10-pin bowling, virtual reality pods as well as fresh food options and private party rooms in the heart of Dartmouth Crossing.
While the gamble of opening Playdium during the pandemic may seem risky, Cineplex’s executive director of amusement and entertainment Kashif Ahmad says people are hungry for the giant amusement complex and its offerings.
From throwing the kitchen sink at them to scientific analysis separating hype from hope in treating COVID-19
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A nurse tends to a patient infected with COVID-19. The science of treating COVID-19 has come a long way in a year.(Georges Gobet / AFP via Getty Images) comments
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When COVID-19 hit a little over a year ago, we really had no idea what we were facing. Hospitals were filling up. Doctors were faced with patients in critical condition, with no really good understanding of the disease or how to fight it.
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