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Are you feeling the heat?
Some medications can increase your risk of heat stroke. Diuretics, blood pressure medications and more in the latest medical update with CTV Montreal.
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08.08.2025 20:30 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Tick-borne diseases on rise due to warmer temperatures, experts say
Tick borne diseases in Canada are becoming more common because of rising temperatures.
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06.08.2025 18:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Always does my heart good too. It's the waistline it's not good with.
02.08.2025 17:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
yeah life is like that. It's almost as bad as finding out about Santa Claus.
02.08.2025 17:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
There really isn't. I would avoid the rush and succumb to nihilism now to be an early adopter.
02.08.2025 17:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Myth Busting: No, Red Wine Isn’t Good for Your Heart
Cardiologist Christopher Labos speaks about red wine and health misconceptions.
Myth Busting: No, Red Wine Isn’t Good for Your Heart www.medscape.com/viewarticle/... with @drlabos.bsky.social
"...you can’t think it’s good for your heart. That’s a myth."
20.07.2025 15:34 — 👍 37 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 2
Sorry to be the party pooper
21.07.2025 22:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You often see headlines about colon cancer rates skyrocketing. But the data is more nuanced. Colon cancer overall is decreasing. Over past 20 years, there has been a small increase in under 50 group. But lots of variability between countries. Probably explainable by lifestyle factors.
11.07.2025 15:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I am going to work with the graphic team next time. That is a brilliant and insightful idea :)
03.07.2025 13:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It was lovely having you on again !!!
13.06.2025 05:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Biden's prostate cancer explained by doctor
‘The problem with #prostate cancer screening is that it's a bit of a controversial issue because it is unclear how much of a magnitude of a benefit there is and whether the benefits outweighs the risks.’
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19.05.2025 20:58 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
138 – Can vitamin D treat multiple sclerosis?
The Body of Evidence · Episode
A new study claims that #vitamin D can treat multiple sclerosis multiple sclerosis. But is this trial groundbreaking or an outlier? It's a bit complicated.
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14.05.2025 15:13 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Is a Year of DAPT Magical Thinking?
The need for 12 months of dual antiplatelet therapy after coronary stenting has become entrenched in practice despite little supporting evidence, writes cardiologist Chris Labos.
It's hard to accept that babies born in the year 2000 now have kids of their own. It’s even harder to accept that there never was much evidence for 12 months of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) after coronary stenting.
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14.05.2025 14:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Body of Evidence
Dr. Christopher Labos and guests use the body of evidence to go beyond science and medicine headlines and hype. All to help you develop your critical thinking skills so that when you google your sympt...
Grey’s Anatomy had a lot of fascinating medical cases… in between all the sex and work drama. After investing 20 years of her life watching the show, guest co-host Robyn Flynn puts some of the weirdest cases she’s ever seen to me on our latest podcast.
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08.05.2025 00:56 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you!!
03.05.2025 02:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hard to say. Probably some at least but given that the virus keeps changing I wouldn’t think a great degree.
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136 - Does acupuncture work?
The Body of Evidence · Episode
Does acupuncture work? Pedro is back to share why alternative medicine is so alluring and why blinding in clinical trials is so hard to achieve.
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30.04.2025 17:40 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Measles, Vitamin A, and RFK Jr.’s About-Face
This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. There is a measles outbreak in Texas. The response by the United States government was to send extra doses of vitamin A even though the Texas public health department didn’t want them. It wasn’t a benign public relations stunt. A small group of children is now in hospital being treated for vitamin A toxicity. The dangers of misrepresenting the science are not abstract. Real children are getting sick and dying. For those of you who haven’t been keeping track, as of April 4, there were 481 measles cases in Texas and 607 cases across the U.S. The majority are in children and teens and 97 per cent are unvaccinated. Nationally, 12 per cent of the measles cases have been hospitalized. Two children have died. They are the first measles deaths in a decade. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s initial response was to downplay the outbreak and claim there was nothing unusual in a measles outbreak. In fact, the U.S. eliminated measles in 2000. While it does see occasional outbreaks in pockets of unvaccinated people, the U.S. has already seen three times more cases in 2025 than it did in all of 2024. Thomas Corry, assistant secretary for public affairs at the Health and Human Services Department, quit two weeks after taking the job, reportedly because of his growing frustration with Kennedy’s inaction. Kennedy tried to pivot his messaging by writing an op-ed on Fox News where he acknowledged the seriousness of the outbreak and shocked most people, including myself, by repudiating most of his life’s work and calling the MMR vaccine “crucial” to avoiding the potentially deadly disease. But he threw a bone to his anti-vaccine base by claiming that vitamin A can drastically reduce measles mortality. There is some evidence for the use of vitamin A in treating measles cases. Vitamin A deficiency delays measles recovery and is associated with more complications. But the studies on the issue have not been universally positive. A 2005 Cochrane review analyzed six trials of vitamin A treatment in approximately 2,000 patients. Overall, there was no mortality benefit. Only when you limit yourself to data from three of the six studies (around 300 patients) do you see fewer deaths. In children under two years of age who received two doses of vitamin A, mortality from measles dropped from 10.7 to 1.9 per cent. The positive studies in this Cochrane review were all done in Africa. The two non-African studies in Japan and England did not show a benefit. A 2021 study in Italy also showed no mortality reduction when children with measles were given vitamin A. In resource-rich countries, where vitamin A deficiency is rare, vitamin supplementation doesn’t seem to do anything. Although people sometimes believe vitamins can heal anything, once your body receives the required amount it needs, extra doses have no effect. If you are mega-dosing on water-soluble vitamins like vitamin B and C, then they will just be excreted in your urine. But fat-soluble vitamins like vitamin A, D, E and K will remain in your system and can build up to toxic levels. Multiple children in Covenant Children’s Hospital in Texas experienced liver toxicity after they reportedly used vitamin A to treat their measles symptoms. The second child’s death may be changing the narrative around measles. Kennedy’s admission on the weekend that “the most effective way to prevent the spread of measles is the MMR vaccine” is shocking for someone who spent a career demonizing the MMR vaccine. It remains to be seen whether he abandons the vitamin A rhetoric in the face of mounting measles cases. Vitamin A may have some role in minimizing the complications of measles in resource-limited areas where deficiency is common. But it probably won’t do much in the U.S. or Canada. It also doesn’t prevent or limit the spread of measles, and in very high doses it can be toxic. We’ve known that for a while; now Kennedy knows it too. @DrLabos
Measles, Vitamin A & RFK Jr.’s About-Face www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/... by @drlabos.bsky.social
"The dangers of misrepresenting the science are not abstract. Real children are getting sick & dying."
Vitamin A "doesn’t prevent or limit the spread of measles, and in very high doses it can be toxic."
12.04.2025 16:32 — 👍 88 🔁 28 💬 5 📌 1
The Body of Evidence: 133 – IVF, infertility and pineapples
What exactly is IVF and how successful is it really? Our editor Robyn Flynn joins the show to discuss her personal journey and all the steps of IVF starting from an infertility diagnosis to giving birth. Also why pineapples?
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10.04.2025 12:53 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you to everyone !! It's an incredible honour to be recognized in this way!
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