Two pharmaceutical companies recently issued voluntary recalls for extended-release versions of the diabetes drug metformin, because it may contain high levels of a cancer-causing chemical, according to notices by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Metformin tablets are a staple of diabetes care, reducing excess sugar in the blood. People...
You may think your dog is excited at the sight of your face, but research published Monday suggests that unfortunately, she probably isn’t.
The study, in the Journal of Neuroscience, shows that dogs aren’t wired to focus on human faces. What does make their brains spark is the glimpse of...
Months after the discovery of a "multisystem inflammatory syndrome" tied to COVID-19 in children, health officials are warning that a similar condition can strike adults as well.
On Friday (October 2), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report describing a "multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults" or...
Oh no, here we go again.
If the onset of the pandemic’s second wave has you feeling overwhelmed, wondering how you’re going to make it through another lockdown let alone another winter, you’re not alone.
“The first thing we can do is to normalize our reactions,” said Geneviève Fecteau, director of...
Provincial health officials have announced 51 new cases of COVID-19 in Manitoba.
This brings the province's total number of lab-confirmed and probable positive cases to 1,880 since early March.
The current test positivity rate now sits at 2.2 per cent.
The new cases announced on Sunday include:
One case in the Prairie...
Ottawa has surpassed 4,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic, with public health officials reporting 45 new cases on Saturday.
In all, 4,005 cases have now been confirmed in the nation's capital since the pandemic was declared earlier this year, with approximately 79 per cent of those...
A new research appears to confirm what many have been saying since the pandemic broke out in Canada in the spring: Black Canadians are being hit disproportionately hard by COVID-19 physically and financially.
The research, which its authors say is the first of its kind in Canada, was carried out...
Johnson & Johnson is starting a huge study to test if a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine can protect people against the coronavirus. The study, launching Wednesday, will be one of the world's largest coronavirus vaccine studies so far, involving 60,000 volunteers in the U.S., South Africa, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,...
University of Cincinnati researchers have found that certain treatments for cancer may increase the chance of death if they contract COVID-19.
These findings from a multicenter study, presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology Virtual Congress 2020, shed light on ways standard anti-cancer treatments may impact outcomes for patients...
Interior Health reported two new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, Sept. 9, bringing the total number of cases in the region to since the start of the pandemic to 462.
Sixteen of those cases are active and on isolation and nobody in the region is currently in hospital.
The outbreak at...
