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Dr. Brown: Fast-track learning about COVID-19
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report With COVID-19 we had some idea of what to expect because of earlier encounters with the SARS and MERS viruses whose genomes resemble that of
Dr. William Brown is a professor of neurology at McMaster University and co-founder of the Infohealth series at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library.
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COVID-19: Dr. Brown: Black Swans and the pandemic
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Some liken the current pandemic and financial crises to Black Swan events – rare as the chance of spotting black swans (they exist is Australia, it
Dr. Brown: COVID and long-term care homes
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report I recently wrote an article in this paper about priorities in the face of limited technical and human resources in this pandemic. Those decisions were
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COVID-19: Dr. Brown: No life-saving measures if I become breathless with COVID
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report I’m 80 and just days ago had a conversation with my children about what they could realistically do if I become sick with COVID-19. My wife
Dr. WIlliam Brown: Priorities in an overwhelming pandemic
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report It seems ages ago since the pall of the advancing COVID-19 pandemic descended on the world. What began in China in late 2019, soon overwhelmed
Dr. Brown: How the coronavirus attacks
Dr. William BrownSpecial to The Lake Report Unlike simple cells such as bacteria, viruses like the corona family of viruses, travel light: without help they can’t make their own RNA, proteins or generate
Dr. Brown: We all need to do our part on COVID-19
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report As the New England Journal of Medicine put it in its editorial on Feb. 20, “for the third time in as many decades, a zoonotic coronavirus
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Dr. Brown: Nurse practitioners have an increasingly important role to play
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Much of my career was spent working in specialty clinics in Canada and the United States, such as neuromuscular, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and multiple
Dr. Brown: What the future holds: Part 1
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Nothing with which we are familiar will remain the same; not anyone we know, not our homes, streets, rivers, lakes or coastlines. Not those charming
Dr. Brown: Chimpanzees and humans
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report In 1979, Frans De Waal, then a young primatologist, wrote what turned out to be a bestseller, “Chimpanzee Politics,” which caught the attention and fancy of
Dr. Brown: The complex role of physical beauty inhuman relationships over time
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report To hear proponents of evolution speak, evolution was (and is) all about natural selection by favouring certain traits, which might offer some advantage in a competitive
Dr. William Brown: It’s true, seniors can enjoy sex and love late in life
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Three years ago, I wrote a column about sex and the elderly as a promo for an upcoming Infohealth session. We struggled to find a suitable headline and
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Dr. Brown: Concussion examined in latest Infohealth presentation
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report I played football in high school and remember once “seeing stars” and feeling momentarily stunned after tackling the ball carrier head-on. The sensations lasted only a
Dr. Brown: Even when Einstein was wrong, he was right
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report In one of four pivotal studies in 1905, any one of which would merit a Nobel prize, Albert Einstein revealed that while in common with
Dr. Brown: The domestication of animals and, yes, humans
Dr. William Brown Special to The Lake Report Wolves were domesticated roughly 30,000 years ago and cats about 9,500 years ago – but what about humans? Fossil and DNA records suggest humans may have domesticated
Dr. Brown: Science made some truly spectacular revelations in 2019
This is the first in an exclusive new regular column by NOTL’s Dr. William Brown. A graduate of the University of Western Ontario school of medicine, Brown trained as a clinical neurologist in Toronto and later as
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