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A question posed by a parent in an antivaccine Facebook group: Measles was declared “eliminated” in Canada in 1998, and in the US in 2000. Perhaps this has caused people to become complacent, which has enabled the antivaccine movement to gain a foothold to the extent that several countries in Europe have recently lost their…
In Canada, we live in a society where we can walk into any grocery store and find an immense variety of safe, high-quality produce grown in different continents available for our consumption. We also live in a society that relies heavily on the internet for sources of information, which is plagued with a myriad of…
Asteroids are left over material from the formation of the solar system which primarily orbit around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter. Occasionally due to perturbations in the orbit due to gravity influences an asteroid will swing into an orbit close to that of the earth. Such an asteroid hit the earth 66 million years…
Global warming refers to the increase in the average global temperature. Climate change refers to the changes in long-term weather patterns including precipitation, droughts, and other severe weather events. Global warming has caused climate change. The two terms are related but not interchangeable. Want to know more? 5 Climate Change misconceptions and for additional resources,…
By Zack Dumont Healthcare and medical literature is fraught with limitations: It’s complex, vulnerable to various interpretations, and ultimately not well served by fleeting headlines. To effectively translate the knowledge uncovered in a research study into clinical practice, one must first determine whether the research methods are valid (i.e., did they conduct a good study?)…
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