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What the disappearances say about life in Canada’s shelter cities

What the disappearances say about life in Canada’s shelter cities

ByAndrew03/20/20203 min read

As a child in the 1980s, Elizabeth Brookes spent hours staring through the windows of the Laurier Towers, wondering what kind of people were living there.Now 56, she grew up…

There’s a new case of variant CJD in Europe, a fatal, rare condition that can never be cured

There’s a new case of variant CJD in Europe, a fatal, rare condition that can never be cured

ByAndrew03/15/2020

A case of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease has been identified in the Netherlands, the World Health Organization’s health agency said Friday, in the latest of a series of sporadic cases of…

Dr Jerome Adams on how a public health crisis was not lost on Trump during presidential debate

Dr Jerome Adams on how a public health crisis was not lost on Trump during presidential debate

ByAndrew03/11/2020

Trump has appointed a surgeon general who says US must step up fight against antimicrobial resistance, a global health crisis which he says is ‘one of our greatest health challenges’Dr…

Swiss to vote on whether to restrict manufacturers from creating ‘fake’ hormones

Swiss to vote on whether to restrict manufacturers from creating ‘fake’ hormones

ByAndrew03/04/2020

Switzerland will go to the polls May 22 to decide whether to temporarily block the manufacture of laboratory-made synthetic versions of key human hormones.In recent years, companies have manufactured at…