FOCUS ON HEALTH Nicotine exposure alone leads to pulmonary hypertension -study A study conducted by a team of researchers at LSU Health New Orleans has shown for the first time that chronic exposure to inhaled nicotine alone increases blood pressure (hypertension), in both the body’s general circulation and in the lungs that can lead to […]
GENEVA – United Nations human rights experts have called on the United States to urgently lift its long-standing trade and economic embargo against Cuba or risk many lives being lost to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The human rights experts emphasised that the more than six-decades-old sanctions are impeding the supply of medicine, medical equipment, food […]
By Jenny Baboolal On April 22 last, Earth Day came and went without much fanfare. This is unfortunate because, with a captive global audience, it was a unique opportunity to connect the dots between the COVID-19 pandemic, our way of life and its impact on our health and on the earth that supports us. Fifty […]
Former National Hockey League enforcer Georges Laraque, who is in a Quebec hospital after contracting COVID-19, said his condition was steadily improving but that people needed to take the respiratory disease seriously. In a series of videos posted over the weekend, the 43-year-old Montreal native said he was training for a marathon and delivering food […]
Axel Scheffler has illustrated a digital book for primary school age children, free for anyone to read on screen or print out, about the coronavirus and the measures taken to control it. Published by award-winning independent children’s book publisher, Nosy Crow, and written by staff within the publishing company, the book has had expert input: […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica – One of the island’s leading bleach manufacturers, Pioneer Manufacturing Distribution Company Limited, producer and distributor of the Chloro-Do brand, is warning Jamaicans not to ingest bleach in an attempt to ward off the COVID-19 virus. Managing director of Pioneer Alfred Thomas, said the product is safe when diluted and used for sanitation […]
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association together with the Black Legal Action Centre, HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario and Aboriginal Legal Services, has written to Ontario’s solicitor general outlining its concerns over “an extraordinary invasion of privacy” regarding persons tested positive for COVID-19. The letter was sent to the solicitor general after the Ontario government […]
By Lincoln DePradine The outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has caused the death of more than 200,000 people worldwide, also is impacting the conduct of final funeral rites. In Ontario, like in other cities and countries, services have been shortened and limits placed on the number of people allowed to attend funerals. “We […]
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Kamina Johnson Smith says the Government has implemented new protocols for the controlled re-entry of Jamaicans during the COVID-19 crisis. Speaking at a digital press conference at Jamaica House on Monday, Johnson Smith said re-entry is subject to the strict protocols and availability of quarantine […]
The current pandemic has given the world a lot to think and write about. In this article, I will offer some reflections on two themes. The first is Dr. Martin Luther King’s idea of our common humanity and how this has been demonstrated in the global battle against the coronavirus. The second, and related theme, […]
