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DALLAS, Jan. 6, 2021 Statins, common cholesterol-lowering medications, may protect women s hearts from damage caused during chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer, according to new research published today in the
Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access journal of the American Heart Association. Two types of cancer medications, anthracyclines and trastuzumab, are effective treatments for many women with breast cancer, however, the risk of heart muscle damage has limited their use, particularly in women who are at higher risk for heart problems because of their age or other medical issues, said Husam Abdel-Qadir, M.D., Ph.D., lead author of the study, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Toronto s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, and a cardiologist at Women s College Hospital and the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, part of the University Health Network in Toronto.
How Ontario could have avoided the long-term care crisis
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Last spring, Ontario Premier Doug Ford promised to move heaven and earth to prevent more long-term care residents from dying of COVID-19. But today, more than one-third of the province s long-term care homes are in an outbreak. More than 960 residents have died since the start of October.
And experts say it didn t have to be this way.
Today, we re speaking to Dr. Samir Sinha the director of geriatrics at the Sinai Health System and the University Health Network, and the director of health policy research at the National Institute on Ageing about what Ontario could have done, but didn t.
Published Wednesday, January 6, 2021 3:51PM EST Starting tomorrow, Toronto s 1,300 paramedics will be eligible to receive Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine at one of three hospitals in the city, Mayor John Tory announced Wednesday. The city s three partner hospitals Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Humber River Hospital, and the University Health Network will be able to vaccinate 50 paramedics per day at each of the three vaccination sites. Paramedics in our city, who have done such a fantastic job during the pandemic and of course every other day as well, are an extension of our emergency departments and play a vital role in our response to the pandemic, Tory said at a news conference on Wednesday.
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