Health

Researchers create mask filtration effectiveness hierarchy

This spring, due to limited national supplies of N95 face masks, hospitals across the country asked the public and private companies to donate personal protective equipment (PPE), including many different types of masks, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Why Indigenous communities seeing few cases of COVID-19

Like most people, Tania Cameron was watching the news intently as the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in Canada. A member of Niisaachewan First Nation and regional coordinator for Indigenous Sport & Wellness Ontario, ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Cloth face masks can reduce the spread of SARS-CoV-2: new study

A literature review coordinated by Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and McMaster University in Canada demonstrates that cloth face masks provide clinically useful levels of filtration, which has the potential to reduce the ...

Health

How have primary care physicians adapted during the pandemic?

If you look just beyond the surge of patients who rushed to hospitals to be treated for COVID-19 this year, you'll find another group of people—people with broken hips or chronic illnesses—who need medical care before, ...

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