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Mashup Score: 14
Study highlights Wegovy’s expanding benefits from obesity to heart disease Email Wegovy (semaglutide), a drug originally intended to help people manage obesity, has recently gained traction in the field of other treatments — namely heart disease. Since Wegovy has already been proven to help reduce weight, manage blood sugar, and reduce major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), such as heart attack and stroke, in people with obesity, a new goal was put forth by researchers: to see if the drug would
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Mashup Score: 37What it feels like: Taking a colorectal cancer diagnosis and turning it into hope for others - 8 month(s) ago
Barry Stein first noticed blood in his stool when he was in his 30s and didn’ t think much of it. After further reflection, Stein thought that checking things out may not be such a bad idea. That inkling to seek out medical testing could be what saved Barry Stein’s life: shortly after that, he was diagnosed with early-onset colorectal cancer. Unfortunately, the cancer was no longer confined to his colon, as it had begun spreading to other areas of the body. Because of that, and the lack of viable treatment
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Mashup Score: 3CCSMH: First clinical guidelines an ‘important step forward’ in treating social isolation and loneliness in older adults - 8 month(s) ago
The Canadian Coalition for Seniors’ Mental Health (CCSMH) has good news for older adults who are struggling with social isolation and loneliness. Even more concerning, says Dr. Suzanne Dupuis-Blanchard, director of the Centre d’ études du vieillissement at the Université de Moncton in New Brunswick, is the fact that social isolation is much more common than the numbers show, pointing out that the part of the population affected by isolation is not the one that responds to surveys. “Social isolation is
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Mashup Score: 2What it feels like: High blood pressure, heart disease and the determination to survive - 11 month(s) ago
What it feels like: High blood pressure, heart disease and survival
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Mashup Score: 4
Hypertension in Canada: Stats, resources and control rates
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Mashup Score: 1Diagnosed with high blood pressure (hypertension): Managing support, resources and lifestyle - 11 month(s) ago
High blood pressure (hypertension): Support, resources and lifestyle
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Mashup Score: 5
Opinion: Canadian government should do more to address vaping
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Congrats my friend @SubodhVermaMD for the press on this study! @UofTCVsurgery @BobbyYanagawa @OuzounianMD https://t.co/L5Lq6Bej4j