Trying to stick to a plant-based diet this holiday? It is possible to be festive while skipping out on the meat and dairy. Holiday brunches, festive sweets and so many treats don’t have to derail your plan to eat plant-based this year. These new meat- and dairy-free essentials deliver all the right flavours of the
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The Canadian Paediatric Society says kids have been hospitalized after accidentally ingesting cannabis edibles. Here’s how to stash your stash. Two years after Canada legalized cannabis, most parents who use it still don’t publicly admit it, even though it’s safer than alcohol. But the issue of cannabis’s safety became a bit hazy (pun intended) last
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Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 19 2020 A UC Davis Health pediatric team presented a powerful case series of three teenagers who had unexplained breathing problems during the COVID-19 pandemic. The series highlighted the similarities between e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) and COVID-19 symptoms and manifestations. EVALI and COVID-19 share many symptoms
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Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 19 2020 When young people act out sexually in ways that are harmful to others or themselves, the stigma surrounding the issue can be paralyzing for everyone affected. However, data shows that treatment for problematic sexual behavior in youth is highly effective. Faculty members at the University of Oklahoma Health
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Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 19 2020 When it comes to understanding why children from non-white race groups have such poor health outcomes compared with their white counterparts, it’s time for researchers to look beyond their genes and delve deeper into social factors, according to a commentary published today in the journal Pediatrics. Framing race
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Imaginations flourish from reading. Whether it’s reading independently or a shared read at bedtime, curling up with a good book is important. Mastermind Toys isn’t all games and play—it’s one of the nation’s leading children’s bookstores, too. Give the gift of adventure and creativity with some of its experts’ favourite new titles. Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome
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Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 18 2020 Researchers at the VISTA Center (Vision, Image, Speech and Text Analytics) at the USC Viterbi Information Sciences Institute (ISI) along with scholars at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have discovered strong correlations between facial morphology and congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH),
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Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 18 2020 Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is a disorder that affects the adrenal gland’s ability to release hormones that regulate the body’s response to stress and illness. CAH is treatable, but can be potentially life-threatening during illness or if not managed. The disorder is difficult to identify, and much still
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As wave after wave of the pandemic pummels our world, working women have felt the sand rushing away from under their feet. Here, three women tell Chatelaine about the stresses of balancing paid work with domestic responsibilities. Photo: Courtesy of Rowena Alivio Rowena Alivio, 48, Vancouver I started working as a dealer at the Parq Casino in
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Thanksgiving is next week and if you’re anything like us, you’ll probably eat way more than usual. What’s more? With gyms slowly closing all over the country, finding a place to workout these days is super tough. The biggest factor is staying motived to actually workout and we’re thankful we can turn to TikTok for
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Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 18 2020 Children in a Melbourne family developed a COVID-19 immune response after chronic exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus from their parents, a new case report has found. The research, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) and published in Nature Communications, showed that despite close contact with symptomatic
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Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 18 2020 In a controlled study of smokers, nonsmokers, and e-cigarette users, University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers found that e-cigarette users exhibited significantly altered immune responses to a model of influenza virus infection, suggesting increased susceptibility to disease. The findings, published in the American Journal of Respiratory
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It’s the good news we all need. Last week, New York-based pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which is developing a COVID-19 vaccine with German company BioNTech, announced that, based on preliminary data, its vaccine appears to be more than 90 percent effective. Then, on Monday morning, the Cambridge, Mass. biotech firm Moderna said its vaccine appears to
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FANTASTIC JEAN HACKS Hello friends! We are super excited about today’s video. We’ve prepared the most incredible jean hacks you can try out at home. You’ll learn how to take an old pair of jeans and upgrade them into a beautiful piece of clothing. We bet they’ll be the coolest pair of jeans you’ve ever
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As the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic grows, more manifestations of the viral infection emerge. Early in the pandemic, people with COVID-19 reported symptoms of fever, cough, and difficulty breathing. Later, other symptoms were added, such as loss of taste, loss of smell, and mouth lesions in children. A team of investigators in the Department of
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What to do if your child points out “pwetty wainbows” or asks for a bowl of “thoup.” Elizabeth Crisolago Baron’s son, Matteo, was four and a half when she first realized he couldn’t properly make the “s” sound; it came out more like a “th.” “His junior kindergarten teacher brought it up during our parent-teacher
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