Getting To The Heart Of The Coronavirus Pandemic
Co-authored by by Lauren Philippi, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of GuelphIn late December 2019 an outbreak of pneumonia cases arose in Wuhan, China. Patients...
View ArticleThe Emperor Has No Clothes: The Failure Of Hydroxychloroquine As A COVID-19...
The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, touted as a miracle cure for COVID-19, appeared to have had it’s Titanic moment, at least according to a study published in the Lancet. The retrospective study...
View ArticleOne Hydroxychloroquine A Day Does Not Keep The Doctor Away
As the search for an effective COVID19 treatment goes on, one therapy keeps re-appearing in the headlines: hydroxychloroquine. Early, observational studies on the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat...
View ArticleIs Air Pollution The Next Pandemic? How Air Quality Increases Deaths From...
By Gurkiran Dhuga and Glen Pyle Throughout the last few decades health concerns related to air pollution have been rising. Despite this focus there has been little research on the impact of air...
View ArticleA False Start For Women: Why Are Women With Cardiovascular Disease Undertreated?
by Gurkiran Dhuga&Glen Pyle The fight for equality between the sexes has undoubtedly made significant advances recently. But a new meta-analysis examining sex differences in treatment for...
View ArticleWill COVID-19 Use Myocarditis To Strike Out Baseball?
By Glen Pyle and Gurkiran Dhuga COVID-19 has thrown professional baseball in North America a curveball. An outbreak among players for the Miami Marlins, that has spread to the Philadelphia Phillies and...
View ArticleVaccination Opponents Drive An Epidemic Of COVID-19 Misinformation
There is a saying that when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So, it should come as no surprise that vaccine skeptics worldwide are sounding the alarm about the flu shot as a real...
View ArticleThe Thorny Problem Of COVID-19 Vaccines And Spike Proteins
Almost since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a piece of the SARS-CoV2 virus called the “spike protein” has drawn interest from researchers and healthcare professionals. New research by Yuyang...
View ArticleDo COVID-19 Vaccines Fan The Flames Of Myocarditis?
Since COVID-19 emerged on the global scene, the heart has been the centre of action. Cardiovascular disease increases the risk of severe illness and death, and injuries to the heart and blood vessels...
View ArticleInflaming The Myths Of COVID-19 Vaccines
Like the phantom heart in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, myths about COVID-19 vaccines and the risks for cardiovascular disease keep on beating.The latest mythical bogeyman comes...
View ArticleA False Start For Sudden Cardiac Death In Athletes And COVID-19 Vaccines
Social media outlets are once again bubbling with misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and cardiovascular disease. The latest uproar is over claims of a link between vaccines and increased rates of...
View ArticleA Heart-Mind Connection: The Links Between Cardiovascular And Mental Health
Too often mental health problems are dismissed as being “all in your head”. With scientific and medical advancements showing mental illness can cause physical changes to the body, we now know the...
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