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Euthanasia Soon to Be A Leading Cause of Death in Canada?

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February 7, 2023 · 7:00 AM

From DailyMail:

Last year, more than 10,000 people in Canada – surprisingly that’s over three percent of all deaths there – ended their lives via euthanasia, an increase of a third in the previous year. And it’s likely to keep rising: next year, Canada is set to allow people to die exclusively for mental health reasons.

Only last week, a jaw-dropping story emerged of how, five years into an infuriating battle to obtain a stairlift for her home, Canadian army veteran and Paralympian Christine Gauthier was offered an extraordinary alternative.

A Canadian official told

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Westfield Public Health Bulletin: End of federal emergency will affect COVID costs

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The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency is scheduled for May. Last week, the US Department of Health and Human Services sent out a letter to state governors explaining what this would mean. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra affirms that addressing COVID-19 is still “a significant public health priority for the administration.”

The letter cites the government’s success of the “largest adult vaccination program in US history, with nearly 270 million Americans receiving at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine.” It also notes the continued decrease of COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations.

The public health emergency expedited access to

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Statement from the Minister of Health on Update to COVID-19 border measures for travelers arriving from the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong or Macao

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Statement

February 2, 2023 | Ottawa, ON | Public Health Agency of Canada

In response to the increasing spread of COVID-19 and its variants in the People’s Republic of China and limited epidemiological and viral genomic sequence data available in these cases, the Government of Canada announced temporary pre-boarding test requirements and arrival screening effective January 5, 2023, for most travelers arriving on flights originating from the People’s Republic

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TTUHSC Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health to celebrate Day of the Woman

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The Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) will host its annual Day of the Woman event, from 5:30 to 8 pm Tuesday, Feb. 7 at the Amarillo Civic Center Grand Plaza, 401 S. Buchanan St.

The event includes a dinner catered by Macaroni Joes, featuring a presentation from Deborah Clegg, Ph.D., vice president for research at TTUHC El Paso, and Jentry Williams, DPT, owner and founder of Re-form Physical Therapy and Pilates in Amarillo . The speakers will also host a discussion panel answering any and all questions. During the event,

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Atrium Health site down after Killnet hacking threat

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Atrium Health’s website experienced outages Monday afternoon as a Russian hacking group shared a threat against the Charlotte-based health care system and other US groups.

The company’s “hospital systems and patient portals” weren’t affected, Atrium said.

Killnet listed Atrium Health’s Cabarrus County location in a post on the social media platform Telegram along with more than a dozen other hospital systems, Observer news partner WSOC reported.

Killnet is a pro-Russian hacking group known for its cyberattacks, primarily on European governments and infrastructure. They commonly use “denial of service” attacks to disrupt business, Politico previously reported.

Denial of service attacks “occur

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Should You Eat With Your Hands and Eschew Cutlery?

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November 22, 2022 · 7:30 AM

“Me Grok”

DailyMail has an interesting article that promotes eating with your hands instead of forks, knives and spoons. After all, caveman Grok didn’t have eating utensils.

Those who are a stickler for etiquette should look away now.

That’s because we’ve all been eating the wrong way and should be eating with our hands, according to a psychologist.

Professor Charles Spence, from the University of Oxford, said giving up cutlery is the secret to enjoying food.

He says eating with our hands can ‘heighten the dining experience’ – even for meals like pasta and

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Examine reveals decline in Canadians’ psychological well being throughout holidays

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A examine by digital well being platform Felix is ​​highlighting the psychological well being challenges Canadians are going through through the holidays.

The report, launched final month, discovered that one in 4 residents stated their psychological well being declined throughout this era, as many experiences a blended bag of feelings.

Felix’s medical director Dr. Kelly Anderson says the vacations are “a time the place the whole lot will get flipped the wrong way up.”

“We’re touring, we’re not consuming the issues we normally eat, it is darker than traditional.”

Anderson added that some could really feel lonely and remoted.

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