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It was born in the 1960s, an ensemble of the best and brightest minds in their fields, tasked with providing advice to Canadians on routine childhood shots and other vaccines.
Nearly 60 years later, the National Advisory Committee on Immunization is facing accusations of having “lost the plot” and clumsily mishandling the AstraZeneca rollout. Its volunteer co-chair is fielding angry, frustrated emails from people urging her to resign. “You know what? I’d be very happy to resign, because this is not fun,” Dr. Caroline Quach-Thanh said Wednesday in an interview with the
National Post.
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Canada’s schools are not “safe!” Build rank-and-file committees to shut down all in-person classes and save lives!
organized Cross-Canada Educators’ Rank-and-File Safety Committee.
We have formed the Cross-Canada Educators’ Rank-and-File Safety Committee to fight for the immediate closure of all schools across the country. Such action is urgently required to protect the lives of school staff, students and their families from the raging COVID-19 pandemic.
Even the federal government’s own chief medical officer acknowledges that a third wave of the pandemic is rapidly developing, fuelled by new, more contagious variants of the virus, and that it threatens to be even more deadly than the two previous waves.
Lack of Vitamin D Does Not Raise the Risk of Type 1 Diabetes by Angela Mohan on March 1, 2021 at 12:25 PM
Vitamin D levels do not influence the chance of developing 1 diabetes in Europeans, according to a study published in the open-access journal
PLOS Medicine by Despoina Manousaki from the CHU Sainte Justine and the University of Montreal, Canada and colleagues.
Type 1 diabetes is a relatively common autoimmune disease that inflicts substantial lifelong illness and significant economic burden.
Its incidence is increasing worldwide, and there are no known interventions that can be used to prevent the disease. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with type 1 diabetes in observational studies, but evidence of a causal effect from randomized controlled trials is lacking.
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Genetically determined vitamin D levels do not have a large effect on risk of type 1 diabetes in Europeans, according to a study published 25th February 2021 in the open-access journal
PLOS Medicine by Despoina Manousaki from the CHU Sainte Justine and the University of Montreal, Canada and colleagues.
Type 1 diabetes is a relatively common autoimmune disease that inflicts substantial lifelong illness and significant economic burden. Its incidence is increasing worldwide, and there are no known interventions that can be used to prevent the disease. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with type 1 diabetes in observational studies, but evidence of a causal effect from randomized controlled trials is lacking. In the new study, the researchers used a Mendelian randomization design to test whether genetically decreased vitamin D levels increase risk of type 1 diabetes. Mendelian randomization is a method of using measured variation in di