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Lakeridge Health new surgical center and health-care facility opening in Pickering

June 25, 2023

On Monday, Lakeridge Health announced that the Jerry Coughlan Health and Wellness Center (JCHWC), is on track to open in the fall 2023.

Lakeridge Health says it’s a new state-of-the-art surgical center and health-care facility in North Pickering.

The JCHWC was named after the late local philanthropist, and community-builder, Jerry Coughlan, in recognition of his historic philanthropic support of $9-million to the new facility through the Ajax Pickering Hospital Foundation and Lakeridge Health Foundation.

“We’re excited about the progress of the new Surgical Center and health-care facility,” said Dr. Randy Wax, Chief of Staff, Lakeridge Health. “The new Jerry Coughlan Health and Wellness Center will not only enable care closer to home, but also help to ease surgical backlogs with procedures performed in a community facility.”

They say the Surgical Center at the JCHWC will provide a wide range of day surgeries, including endoscopy, minor orthopedics, and gynecological procedures.

They

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Century-Old TB Vaccine Fails to Protect Against Covid

April 27, 2023

An old tuberculosis vaccine known to bolster the immune system did not prevent Covid infections among health care workers, scientists reported on Thursday.

But the trial was shorter and smaller than originally designed, and the investigators said that the results did not rule out other potential benefits associated with the vaccine, known as BCG for bacille Calmette-Guerin.

The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, was the largest clinical trial of the vaccine’s potential to protect against Covid infections. BCG was developed in the early 1900s to combat TB, but has since also been shown to confer protection against other illnesses, including respiratory diseases.

The trial of health care workers began in March 2020, during the early days of the pandemic, when no effective treatments for Covid were available and a new vaccine against the highly infectious disease seemed to be a remote fantasy. The hope was that

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Three die from mystery disease that kills within 24 hours – as town quarantined quarantined

March 30, 2023April 14, 2023

A MYSTERIOUS ‘nosebleed’ disease has claimed the lives of three people in Burundi, west Africa.

All those who died in the landlocked country passed away within 24 hours of showing symptoms, local media website SOS Media Burundi reports.

The map above shows the areas where Marburg deaths have occurred in Africa since February 2023

Symptoms of the illness include fever, headaches, vomiting, abdominal pain, dizziness and nosebleeds.

Health authorities scrambling to contain the virus have quarantined the area of Baziro – where two of the infected people were moved to and treated.

“It’s a disease that kills quickly,” a panicked nurse from the Migwa health center told the news site. “It’s terrible, we are all waiting for death.”

It’s understood she was working at a health care center that received two

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