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Feeling ill with cold, flu, COVID symptoms? Scarborough Center for Healthy Communities has a new free clinic for you | News

Violin17/01/2023 43 Views

There’s another place to go in Scarborough for people with symptoms of COVID-19, flu or a cold – and it promises quick results.

Many Scarborough residents don’t have a family doctor or, if they do, aren’t always able to get appointments when they or their child feels ill.

Scarborough Center for Healthy Communities (SCHC), however, recently opened its new cold, flu and COVID clinic at 520 Ellesmere Rd. where people get their symptoms assessed in 30 minutes.

The clinic, run by the community health centre, is open 3 to 8 pm Thursdays and Fridays and Saturdays from 10 am to

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Prevent Nearsightedness Complications With Early Treatment

Violin07/01/2023 71 Views

November 10, 2022 · 7:00 AM

Steve Parker MD, paleobetic diet, — Should have spent more time outdoors

Myopia, aka nearsightedness, is extremely common and can start in childhood or young adults. Over time it can lead to early-onset cataracts, retinal detachment, and glaucoma. MedPageToday has an eye-opening article on treatments that can prevent myopia progression and complications. For example:

Common evidence-based treatments that offer both statistically significant and clinically meaningful efficacy include daytime multifocal soft contact lenses (MFSCL), overnight orthokeratology (ortho-k), and topical low dose atropine (LDA). Novel spectacle lenses also showed a promising myopia-inhibiting effect, although with limited availability in the US at the

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Is It Time to Cut Back on Alcohol?

Violin05/01/2023 43 Views

December 12, 2022 · 7:00 AM

“Is the room spinning, or is it just me?”

A few months ago I ran across a thoughtful article by Morris van de Camp entitled Love Drinking Less. It’s well worth a read if your alcohol consumption is out of control or heading that way.

Alcohol is a two-edged sword. On the one hand it makes life fun and turns strangers into intimate friends in the course of an evening; on the other, it makes a person dysfunctional. Very dysfunctional. Productive time is lost, relationships are damaged, and health is harmed.

I cannot say

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