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The World Health Organization (WHO) has ended the global COVID-19 emergency, citing increased immunity, fewer deaths and less pressure on hospitals. The pandemic, which was first declared an international crisis on January 30, 2020, resulted in unprecedented lockdowns, economic upheaval and the deaths of at least seven million people worldwide and more than 52,000 people in Canada. ()

Here are some experts from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ who can provide comment on this issue:

Classified as: McGill experts, michael libman, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, covid-19, pandemic, J.D. MacLean Centre for Tropical Diseases, WHO, World Health Organization, Matthew Oughton, jewish general hospital
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Published on: 12 May 2023

The World Health Organization is calling on all nations to rid foods of artificial trans fats in the next five years. (Source )

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Andre Krumel Portella, Postdoctoral fellow of nutrition and neuroscience at the McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics

Classified as: World Health Organization, WHO, trans fats, Andre Portella, MCCHE
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Published on: 16 May 2018

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Reducing opportunistic infections such as TB in children with HIV could save both lives and money

Classified as: medicine, faculty of medicine, health, children, HIV, World Health Organization, sub-Saharan Africa, Marie-Renee B-Lajoie
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Published on: 19 Jul 2016

Now, an international team of researchers led by McMaster University in collaboration with the Research Institute of the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Health Centre has found that soap and water is actually less effective than just using saline water.

The findings, which were published in the New England Journal of Medicine, could lead to significant cost savings, particularly in developing countries where open fractures are particularly common.

Classified as: water, World Health Organization, McMaster, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Health Centre, health and lifestyle, salin, salin water, soap, wound, cleaning wounds, New England Journal of Medicine, Mohit Bhandari, Michael G. DeGroote, Edward Harvey
Published on: 15 Dec 2015
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