Hyperventilate yourself sober â a simple new device could help treat acute alcohol poisoning
The device can significantly reduce the time it takes to bring down a person s blood alcohol level
Social Sharing
This device can significantly speed up the time it takes for alcohol to leave a person s system
CBC Radio ·
Posted: Dec 11, 2020 6:07 PM ET | Last Updated: December 11, 2020
Dr. Joseph Fisher demonstrates the use of the device he developed to help people hyperventilate safely to reduce alcohol poisoning. (UNH)
5 Ontario regions tightening restrictions, Peel and Toronto to remain in lockdown
Ontario is tightening public health restrictions in five regions as hospitals say they are inundated with COVID-19 patients.
Social Sharing
CBC News ·
Ontario tightens COVID-19 restrictions in 5 more regions
The National3 months ago
2:37
Ontario is in the midst of extending lockdowns in hot spots and tightening restrictions in other regions.2:37 comments
Ontario is tightening public health restrictions in five regions as hospitals say they are inundated with COVID-19 patients.
Those regions include Hamilton, which will move to the grey or lockdown level, joining Peel Region, Toronto and Windsor-Essex County, Premier Doug Ford s government said late Friday afternoon.
Jamie Feick, a Lehigh Valley Health Network MedEvac flight nurse who is regularly stationed at LVH-Schuylkill, is given an injection of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Tanya Wagner, RN with Lehigh Valley Health Network, on Friday at Lehigh Valley Hospital-Schuylkill E. Norwegian Street. Feick was the first person in Schuylkill County to receive the vaccine, outside of those part of the clinical trials.
David McKeown / Staff Photographer
David McKeown / Staff Photographer
Blink Charging Announces Additional Deployments of Blink-Owned EV Charging Stations At St. Luke’s University Healthcare Facilities Across Pennsylvania
December 16, 2020 09:15 ET | Source: Blink Charging Co. Blink Charging Co.
Miami Beach, FL, Dec. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Blink Charging Co. (Nasdaq: BLNK, BLNKW) (“Blink” or the “Company”), a leading owner, operator, and provider of electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment and services, announced today the installation of an additional ten IQ 200 EV chargers at St. Luke’s University Health Network’s Orwigsburg, Quakertown, and Easton, PA hospital campuses. The Company is also scheduled to install eight additional chargers at the Allentown, PA hospital campus. The deployment of these Blink-owned charging stations builds upon the Company’s initial contract and deployments with St. Luke’s announced in January 2019.
Program that convinces new parents to vaccinate kids could work for COVID-19 shots, too, experts say
A program that puts vaccine counsellors right in hospital birthing centres may hold key lessons for getting vaccine-hesitant Canadians to roll up their sleeves for COVID-19 immunization, experts say.
Social Sharing
By Brandie Weikle ·
Posted: Dec 19, 2020 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: March 5
Nikita Potvin with her second baby, Riley, in Fleurimont Hospital in Sherbrooke, Que., received vaccine counselling through a program that has reduced vaccine hesitancy in the province by 40 per cent and could hold clues for getting Canadians to roll up their sleeves for COVID-19 shots. (Brian Goldman/CBC)