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Peel Public Health inspectors ordered Lhasa Ink Tattoos to stop tattooing services. In another inspection, Tina’s Spa & Salon received a conditional pass.

Warning: It seems JavaScript is either disabled or not supported by your browser. Please enable JavaScript to improve your experience. The Honourable Joedy Wall, Minister of Health and Community Services, will participate in an in-person meeting of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Ministers of Health in Winnipeg, Manitoba, October 15-16.

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Branswell joined the wire in 1986, first working as a reporter-editor out of the Halifax bureau. In the following years, she spent time in Calgary, Ottawa and London, England. She covered a range of stories and topics, including politics, foreign affairs and sports. In 2000, Branswell moved to the Toronto bureau, and it was there that she discovered her passion for health and medical reporting. She spearheaded coverage of the 2003 Toronto SARS outbreak. Branswell became a fixture at daily news briefings, never shying away from asking probing questions that helped readers better understand the emerging medical threat. “Her work was absolutely stellar,” said former CP health reporter Sheryl Ubelacker. “She developed all kinds of sources and she was really on top of the story and probably led everybody on that particular epidemic. She did wonderful work.”At CP, Branswell also covered bird flu, polio and Ebola and demonstrated a relentless dedication to the demands of the health beat. She wrote science-backed stories with precision and accuracy, Ubelacker said, but did so in a way that the average reader or listener could comprehend.

A new study by Rauscher et al in the Journal of the American College of Radiology has found that automated breast ultrasound (ABUS) and handheld ultrasound (HHUS) had similar cancer detection rates in women with dense breasts, whereas ABUS had a lower false-positive rate. These data demonstrate that ABUS is a viable alternative to HHUS and can expand supplemental ultrasound screening capacity at radiology clinics, according to investigators. There is increasing demand for ultrasound screening in addition to mammography following the enactment of state laws and federal rules requiring radiology clinics to inform women with dense breasts about the limitations of mammography. Because dense tissue and lesions both appear white on a mammogram, abnormalities can more easily go undetected.

Reporter Helen Branswell, is shown in the Toronto offices of The Canadian Press, on Thursday April 8, 2004. THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Helen Branswell, the former Canadian Press health reporter known for her award-winning infectious disease coverage, died Tuesday from complications from cancer. She was 69 years old. Branswell spent nearly 30 years at The Canadian Press, beginning as a general assignment reporter before eventually landing on the health and medical beat, where she established herself as an essential source of information through her dogged reporting, including of the 2003 SARS outbreak.

Without renewed federal funding for mental health and addictions, frontline providers will be left to scale back, or close services, and we’ll lose the health professionals who deliver them. People will wait longer for care, and they will grow more frustrated and increasingly unwell. Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson. As Canada prepares to build infrastructure projects—likely in rural, remote, and northern communities—we can’t afford a situation where an influx of workers creates demand for care in communities where care is already in short supply, writes Marion Cooper. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Credit: Artur Plawgo / Getty Images / Science Photo Library The physical pressure that cancer cells encounter as tumors grow may do more than impede their movement. New research suggests that prolonged confinement can activate a molecular self-destruct mechanism in invasive cancer cells, potentially limiting their ability to spread to other parts of the body. The findings, published in Developmental Cell, reveal an unexpected connection between the mechanical forces within tumors and a form of programmed cell death called necroptosis. Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai say the discovery could eventually lead to biomarkers for predicting metastatic risk and new approaches to preventing cancer spread.

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Brown fat cells with mitochondria labeled in magenta. (Image acquired on a CSR Biotech Cell Xtreme microscope on demo at Rockefeller's Bio-Imaging Resource Center.) Credit: Weslie R. and William H. Scientists have discovered that the drug losartan, commonly prescribed for high blood pressure, boosts brown adipose tissue activity in mice, enhancing their metabolism. This indicates that repurposing losartan—an angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) with a well-known safety profile—may be a clinically viable method of stimulating brown fat, which has been linked to improved cardiovascular health and, reported for the first time in this study, psychiatric health.

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The research focuses on an enzyme known as IDOL, which naturally regulates protective receptors in the brain. By turning off the gene that produces this enzyme, investigators allowed those receptors to survive longer and clear unwanted proteins more effectively. An enzyme that targets protective brain receptors

A file photo of an active tuberculosis case. (Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press) ‘TB elimination by 2030 it is an ambitious goal, but it is also within our reach’

On October 8, the Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program (MPNP) issued a total of 340 Letters of Advice to Apply (LAAs) for provincial nomination, inviting 211 workers in select education or childcare occupations;