You can register for Wellness Thursday online at https://edmontonseniorscentre.ca/product/wellness-thursday-sep/ While the class is free, you must still register to attend. Alzheimer’s disease affects approximately 3% of the Canadian population and currently has no available disease-modifying treatments.  Biomarkers for this condition are increasingly playing a critical role in clinical trials for new treatments.  In this talk, Dr. Steve will review current and emerging biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease including those being investigating at the University of Alberta. ACFrOgCAJ_yFEYHBcnsjs-bWVz8Ku4eR24oDTdY..Download

 Edmonton considering extension of mask mandate for public transit if province ends the measure As Alberta's COVID-19 infection numbers grow, Edmonton is considering reinstating mask mandates. Vaccines are the only proven means of reducing the impact of the virus and its variants.  Oilers to ask for vaccination proof or negative COVID-19 test for fans 12 and older: report

If you've ever wondered how doctors are dealing with those filling up hospitals and graves because they choose not to get vaccinated, here's one frontline doctor's opinion: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-17/vaccinated-covid-doctor-shot Anita Sircar is an infectious-disease physician and clinical instructor of health sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine. You can read her article, written on August 17, 2021 in the Los Angeles Times. “Well,” I said, “I can pretty much guarantee we would have never met had you gotten vaccinated, because you would have never been hospitalized. All of our COVID units are full and every single patient in them is unvaccinated. Numbers don’t lie. The vaccines work.” Anita Sincar, MD speaking to an unvaccinated patient dying of COVID-19. He didn't want to be vaccinated because the vaccine wasn't proved. But after he got sick "the…

On the front of Telegraph there's a warning about the effectiveness of this year's flu vaccines, due to scientific resources being diverted to focus on Covid-19. Experts say laboratories have struggled to gather enough data on influenza which could lead to vaccines being mismatched to the virus - and health services being overwhelmed by cases this winter.

Experts say laboratories have struggled to gather enough data on influenza which could lead to vaccines being mismatched to the virus - and health services being overwhelmed by cases this winter.To protect yourself, please, remember to: A) Get the vaccine when availableB) Continue to mask, wash hands and practice social distancing

Mike Nickel - Seniors  Fri, 8/20 8:43AM • 5:07  Transcript from video provided by Mike Nickel to respond to YEG Mayoralty Forum questions  Note that the questions have been added post-transcription. These questions were sent to Mr. Nickel by email on August 12, 2021.  Mike Nickel  00:00  Hi, my name is Mike Nickel, and I'm running to be your mayor. A lot of you folks already know me, I'm a counsellor from Ward 11, and that's where I am right now sitting in City Council. Unfortunately, wish I could be there, but we got to get on, keep on with the business of the day. But I'm really happy to be here today to talk about seniors issues. The fact of the matter is, is that after 20 years of tax increases, seniors got to really ask the…

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