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To help address the confusion and most common questions about COVID, family doctors have come together to help patients and the public make sense of the current COVID rules and realities. I’m not feeling well. How do I know if I have COVID? What should I do? I think I have COVID. When should I [...]
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Updated May 12, 2021 COVID-19 vaccines authorized by Health Canada What are mRNA vaccines? Messenger RNA (mRNA) is found in all our cells and mRNA act as a “recipe” or a set of instructions that tells our cells on how to make proteins. Both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines use mRNA that enables our cells [...]
Dr. Hamidah Meghani, Halton’s Medical Officer of Health, has created a short video about vaccine safety. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fya-bpP1HM
Science Table Covid-19 Advisory for Ontario Lay Summary What do we know so far? The United Kingdom, European Union, and Scandinavian countries have reported that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine appears to be associated with rare cases of serious blood clots, including blood clots in the brain. These blood clots have two important features: they occur 4 to 20 [...]
Good health is something that many of us take for granted until it is too late. It is important to do all that we can to prevent disease by taking care of our bodies in terms of nutrition, exercise and flexibility. Fortunately, we can also detect some diseases in the early stages, thereby improving the [...]
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Sinusitis is often caused by viruses which are not killed with antibiotics; even if sinusitis is caused by bacterial germs that antibiotics can kill, antibiotics are often not required Treatment of sinusitis includes the following: using Acetaminophen (Tylenol) or Ibuprofen (Advil or Motrin) or Naproxen (Aleve) for fever or painusing salt water nose sprays (many [...]
What is croup? Croup is an infection that causes the lining of the voice box (larynx) and windpipe (trachea) to swell making breathing difficult and noisy. Croup is usually brought on by a viral illness, such as the flu or a bad cold. It most commonly affects children between one and six years of age, [...]
