Avis Favaro
@Avis_Favaro
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Canadian Health Journalist - Contributor to CTV News, Host Canadian Health Information Podcast @avisfavaro.bsky.social
Toronto
Joined March 2009
Frightening thread about rural Emergency care in Alberta - disconnected system can’t even direct EMS to a hospital that’s open. Patient appears to have died. #ruralmedicine #Emergency
RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2 - Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest - EMS responds and begins resuscitation - Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED - Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too - EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures 1/7
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Will AI ever win its own Nobel? Some predict a prize-worthy science discovery soon
nature.com
Nature - Other researchers question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable.
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The rise of health misinformation. https://t.co/JLva2EQJzF
@WesternU @CaulfieldTim @DrJenGunter @ThinkingPowers
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Canada’s first heart transplant after “death by circulatory criteria” - using a heart that stopped beating rather than current confirmed brain death. It opens the door to many more transplants. @CTVNews
ctvnews.ca
Canada’s first-ever heart transplant using a heart, which had stopped beating before donation, has successfully been performed in Toronto, according to the University Health Network.
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BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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Join us Thursday, October 17 at 12pm EST for a live fireside chat with Frank Holmes, CEO and chief investment officer, and legendary investor and former Marine fighter pilot Bob Moriarty, founder of 321gold[dot]com. They’ll discuss what’s next for gold, silver and junior
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My husband is an ENT surgeon, our entire family just moved to Manitoba. We couldn’t be happier to be here. If you build the opportunity, the healthcare workers WILL come.
From Promise to Progress: 2 Years —3,397 Net New Health Workers. 🩺 1,653 HCAs • 🏥 1,187 Nurses • ⚕️ 285 Physicians • 💊 422 Allied Health • 👶 5 Midwives.
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68 % if Canadians aged 18 - 79 had a BMI that classified them as overweight or obese:StatCan @CTVNews
ctvnews.ca
Most Canadian adults are obese and overweight, new Statistics Canada data suggests.
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Toronto hospital housing model for the homeless sets a new standard with data showing it works, saves money and improves lives | Politics | @CdnPressNews
thecanadianpressnews.ca
TORONTO - Every time Jason Miles walked out of prison, he would be bigger, stronger and meaner.
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This is bad news. This is very bad news. The US government has stopped the funding of PubMed, the most comprehensive database of biomedical literature. Why would you do this? This database it literally a matter of life and death.
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Extraordinary pictures show how a commonly-used type of antibiotic kills bacteria like E. coli.
newscientist.com
A commonly used class of antibiotics seems to kill bacteria like E. coli by breaking down their tough armour
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Human skin DNA fertilised to make embryo for first time - @BBCBreaking
bbc.com
US scientists testing the technique say it could help people overcome infertility and potentially allow same-sex couples to have a genetically related child.
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The performance of generative A.I. models for clinical reasoning are not holding up to increased scrutiny https://t.co/b21JfvTNbf
@MSFTResearch
https://t.co/FIHzOoUGqE
@NEJM_AI @AdamRodmanMD @LiamGMcCoy
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Your pupils don’t just track light. They are a doorway to the dynamics of your entire brain. A new Nature paper shows pupil size alone can reconstruct second-by-second brain activity.
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Alberta health-care wait lists climb past half a million, as Alberta stops tracking deaths of those waiting for treatment
ctvnews.ca
Alberta’s health-care wait lists have swelled beyond half a million patients, and the province has stopped counting how many people die while waiting for treatment creating a lack of disclosure that...
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Great book-recommend it for parents and teachers especially- as they navigate the world of cannabis with teens.
Thank you to @utpress and reviewers @Avis_Favaro @AlykhanAbdulla and Dr. Kim Corace from @CCSACanada
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Regularly inhaling cannabis increases risk of asthma, according to largest study of its kind
ctvnews.ca
New research suggests smoking or vaping cannabis products regularly may put users at a greater risk of developing asthma.
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Does this apply in Canada too? “Online health record giant MyChart just slipped a clause into its terms and conditions barring patients from suing the firm for mishandling their health data.” https://t.co/p22d2NrEes
@LeverNews
levernews.com
Online health record giant MyChart just slipped a clause into its terms and conditions barring patients from suing the firm for mishandling their health data.
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A new app released today offers doctors and patients a more accurate and accessible screening test for Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS). The free app, called the Hypermobility Assessment Tool (HAT), is approved by Health Canada. Learn more at https://t.co/ZXLe8hA0ta.
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In 2024, 1.27M Canadians left the ER without being treated—1 in 13 visits. In Quebec, it’s more than 1 in 10. A system in which so many patients walk away without care is a failure. #health #cdnpoli
https://t.co/SLuqr3S7Ef
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The number of patients leaving Quebec’s emergency rooms without being treated is rising, reveals this MEI report. “These patients are not leaving because they feel better, but because the system is...
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This Canadian 🇨🇦 designed implant is being called a “Game changer’ for those with #spinal cord injuries. It helps stabilize dangerous fluctuations in #bloodpressure - and it may have wider applications @UCalgary
https://t.co/VvlM6FOevw
@CTVKathyLe
ctvnews.ca
Research led by teams at several universities worldwide, including the University of Calgary, shows that a new implantable system on patients’ spines can restore blood pressure balance after a spinal...
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