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Facebook says it will finally ban anti-vaccination ads

October 13, 2020

Facebook said Tuesday it is launching a new global policy that bans ads that discourage people from getting vaccines.
The company previously had a policy against vaccine hoaxes that were publicly identified by global health organizations.
Facebook will still allow ads that advocate for or against legislation of government policies around vaccines, including the Covid-19 vaccine.

graphical user interface, application: Facebook's new campaign for flu shots.

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Facebook’s new campaign for flu shots.

Facebook said Tuesday it is launching a new global policy that bans ads that discourage people from getting vaccines. The company previously had a policy against vaccine hoaxes that were publicly identified by global health organizations.

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“Now, if an ad explicitly discourages someone from getting a vaccine, we’ll reject it,” the company’s head of health, Kang-Xing Jin, and its director of product management, Rob Leathern, said in a blog post Tuesday.

The new ban comes amid a series of policy changes announced

Ontario COVID-19 cases fall under 600, Quebec finally sees slight drop in cases

October 9, 2020

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For more on the week’s top stories, and on how the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the country, please refer to our live updates below, as well as our COVID-19 news hub.

17,916 active COVID-19 cases in Canada: 173,123 diagnoses, 9,541 deaths and 145,666 recoveries (as of Oct. 7, 6:00 p.m. ET)

Alberta – 1,910 active cases (19,354 total cases, including 281 deaths, 17,163 resolved)
British Columbia – 1,387 active cases (9,956 total cases, 244 deaths, 8,296 resolved)
Manitoba – 803 active cases (2,278 total cases, 27 deaths, 1,448 resolved)
New Brunswick – 22 active cases (222 cases, 2 deaths, 198 resolved)
Newfoundland and Labrador – 4 active case (277 total cases, 4 deaths, 269 resolved)
Northwest Territories – 0 active cases (5 total cases, 5 resolved)
Nova Scotia – 3 active cases (1,089 total cases, 65 deaths 1,021 resolved)
Ontario – 5,344 active cases (55,945 total cases, 2,988

When COVID vaccine is finally rolled out, who gets it first?

October 5, 2020

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President Donald Trump says a coronavirus vaccine will be approved within weeks. Health experts say several months is more likely.

Approval is one thing. Producing enough vaccine so everyone can be vaccinated is quite another. The chief of the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, the Serum Institute of India (SSI), says that will take four or five years.

Any safe, effective vaccine against COVID-19 will be in short supply until production ramps up. In the meantime, who’s first in line to get vaccinated?

Plans are still being worked out. Each country or organization will have to determine whom it immunizes initially and how the vaccine will be distributed, said Sir Mene Pangalos, executive vice president of pharma giant AstraZeneca, in an interview with the BBC.

In the United States, a five-phase approach drafted in September by a panel assembled by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), strives

Signs America’s Opioid Epidemic Might Finally Be Waning | Health News

October 3, 2020

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By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter

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SATURDAY, Oct. 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Here’s some heartening news on the opioid painkillers front: Abuse of the prescription medicines in the United States fell by more than one-quarter between 2007 and 2018.

“Prior research has shown slight reductions in abuse rates, but our analysis shows we’re tracking statistically significant year-to-year declines in abuse, indicating that the decrease is not an anomaly and truly represents a trend in falling prescription drug abuse levels,” said study author Mario Moric, a biostatistician at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

He and his colleagues analyzed data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an annual survey of about 70,000 Americans aged 12 and older who are asked about their use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs.

For the study, prescription opioid abuse was defined as use without the consent of a physician.

The percentage of

This Gut-Healthy Food Trend Could Finally Get Rid of Your Bloated Belly

October 2, 2020

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From Redbook

FODMAPs are a group of carbohydrates found in certain foods and cause stomach discomfort in some people
A low-FODMAP diet may ease irritable bowel syndrome symptoms such as gas, bloating, and diarrhea
There are dozens of high-FODMAP fruits, vegetables, and sugars, and the diet can be restrictive—but for most people, it’s doable, and it’s only meant to be followed for a few weeks

The word “FODMAP” probably doesn’t make your mouth water, but most of us eat at least a few of them every day. And if you’re someone who suffers from serious gastrointestinal discomfort or a condition like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), cutting them out of your diet (at least temporarily) could spell relief.

But what are FODMAPs, exactly? FODMAPs are a group of carbohydrates found in certain foods that have one big thing in common: For some people, they’re notorious for causing stomach discomfort. These include