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Kids Should Get the Flu Shot This Season

Brian OwensOct 25, 2021

With the potential for a big outbreak of flu this winter, it is more important than ever to make sure…

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How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the transmission of flu?

Brian OwensOct 18, 2021

Public health measures aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19 have also reduced transmission of flu — but this is…

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There’s So Much More To Explain About How Bodies Sense Pain

Brian OwensOct 6, 2021

The medicine Nobel Prize recognized researchers studying how our bodies sense temperature and touch. Pain is much more complicated. This…

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Chief Medical Officer Was Silenced in Canada’s Residential Schools

Brian OwensOct 1, 2021

The discovery in recent months of more than 1,300 unmarked graves at the sites of former indigenous residential schools in…

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Flu Shot Highly Recommended This Year

Brian OwensSep 29, 2021

With the Delta variant of COVID-19 still raging in the United States and intensive care units in parts of the…

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Science Is Messy, Iterative and Amazing. And More Pandemic Lessons

Brian OwensSep 14, 2021

What I learned from 18 months of “doing my own research”. My final column of pandemic science for The Tyee.