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Dr. Brown: COVID surge in Israel a cautionary tale for everyone

For most of us who have been sweltering in Ontario’s summer heat wave, the latest surge in infections in Israel seems too far away to worry. But...

Dr. Brown: COVID virus keeps outsmarting the human body’s defences

Unlike simple cells such as archaea and bacteria, viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID) are unable to make copies of themselves without host...

Dr. Brown: Technology can restore speech to those unable to speak

No one knows when storytelling began but it would have required symbolic thought and language and the cognitive ability to imagine and literally "talk about" the...

Dr. Brown: Pandemic virus keeps upping the ante

At the most basic level, this pandemic has always been about a battle between hordes of mutating viruses and billions of human hosts, with...

Dr. Brown: Indeed, miraculous medical recoveries do happen

When I was a medical student, the dean of Medicine at Western University presented the history of a young man who had a malignant melanoma...

Dr. Brown: The Big Bang and the creation of our universe

For much of human history, the Earth was firmly planted at the centre of the known universe – a reasonable assertion given that the...

Dr. Brown: Why did neanderthals disappear?

About 100,000 years ago, 36 stocky people walked along a beach in southern Spain leaving footprints behind in the sand which later fossilized. Most were...

Dr. Brown: For Long-COVIDpatients, symptoms linger long afterward

For most healthy, middle-aged and especially younger people, infection with COVID-19 has been a non-event – a positive PCR test with few, if any symptoms...

Dr. Brown: Celebrations, yes, but some cautionary COVID tales as well

A week ago. the Sunday New York Times was in full celebration mode, festooned with plenty of photos of packed indoor and outdoor activities, open...

Dr. Brown — A promising new drug for Alzheimers with an asterisk

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved aducanumab to treat Alzheimer’s disease. Like other similar drugs, it was designed to rid the brains of Alzheimer's patients of buildups of...

Dr. Brown: Navigation using the Earths magnetic fields

Every airplane I’ve flown had a magnetic compass located in plain view well above the panel. With it, I could determine my magnetic heading should...

Dr. Brown: The evolution of caring for kin and neighbours

During this pandemic we witnessed selfless behaviour by thousands of health care workers around the globe, who at great risk to themselves, struggled daily...

Dr. Brown: The great transition when humans became fully human

The story of human origins is very much a work in progress, mostly for want of fossils and artifacts to fill in remaining gaps...

Dr. Brown: Complexities of sensation felt and ignored

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.  ________________________________________ We learned...

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