The Food and Drug Administration’s Grand Rounds is presenting a zoom webcast on MinION Sequencing of Foodborne Pathogens with speaker Jason Neal-McKinney, Ph.D., on Thursday, April 14. Whole genome sequencing enables the FDA and other public health laboratories to identify, characterize, and track foodborne pathogens based on their genetic sequence. According to the FDA, this…
EatSafe has launched a challenge to improve food safety in Ethiopia and Nigeria. Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food (EatSafe) is a five-year program led by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In 2019, 33 percent of surveyed Ethiopians and 20 percent of Nigerians said they…
The World Junior Hockey Championship tournament will run Dec. 26, 2022 to Jan. 5, 2023 in Halifax and Moncton, N.B., Hockey Canada announced Thursday.Canada celebrates a goal against Austria during first period IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship action in Edmonton in December 2021. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)Halifax and Moncton, N.B., will host the 2023 World…
One of the Royal Military College cadets who died on campus in Kingston, Ont., last week will be remembered during a Toronto funeral service on Sunday.Jack Hogarth was identified as one of the four officer cadets who died after a vehicle crashed into the water on the Royal Military College campus in Kingston, Ont., last…
The body of a child found in a Rosedale dumpster was that of a young Black girl who may have been dead since as far back as last summer, police said in a grim update Thursday.Flowers and a card sit on the driveway of the Rosedale house where the wrapped body of a young girl…
Following weeks of urging the Ontario government reinstate some COVID-19 measures during a sixth wave, three top doctors have written the province’s chief medical officer of health to ask that mandatory masking be reinstated in all indoor settings.Mandatory mask wearing in indoor settings is the focus of a letter from Medical officers of health in…
ByJustin Brower Published April 28, 2022 • 10 min read Libraries and rare book collections often carry volumes that feature poisons on…
You might know Tunde Oyeneyin as the Peloton spin instructor with chiseled arms who flashes an innocuous smile right before she sets your quads on fire. But the Texas native had a successful career as a makeup artist before she ever took a spin class, and she hasn’t stopped tackling new projects. She’s also a…
Gearing up to run with your baby means finding the right stroller for them to ride along with you—and the best jogging strollers are more than just getting you and your little one from point A to point B. A high-quality stroller will glide with you over pavement, nimbly turn with the bends in your…
Another tool I sometimes recommend when financial anxiety manifests physically is to, literally, shake it off. If your heart is racing, your stomach is in knots, or your breathing becomes shallow when thinking about signing up for life insurance at work, say, you can try standing up and shaking your arms or legs (I like…
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