Canadian Science News

The Project Lead for the Guideline and the Director of Evidence-Based Medicine at the University of Alberta, Mike Allan, said, “While enthusiasm for medical marijuana is very strong among some people, good-quality research has not caught up.”

Poor research was done before, in general. Now, the guideline was created with an in-depth review of the clinical trials. There were 10 members in the committee in addition to 10 other contributors, and peer review by another 40 with “a mixture of doctors, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, nurses and patients.”

Allan noted that the medical cannabinoids should be used in a handful of conditions with sufficient evidence after other therapies have been tried for the patient. The guideline will be distributed to 30,000 physicians.

A Nasty Year for Influenza in Alberta

There was one fewer last year at 64. Calgary has been the most impacted this year. The majority of confirmed deaths from influenza have been there. There have been 3,000 cases of confirmed-by-labs of influenza A and B.

The most prominent strain this year has been AH3. “There can be differences in those viruses from one year to the next,” said MacDonald. “So when you’re comparing the damage that they do, it’s really difficult to say it’s exactly the same virus.”

Plans for Big Animal Farming Operation at Hutterite Colony

Hoyde was referencing the small village near Vulcan, Alberta that is making an appeal to the NRCB or the Natural Resources Conservation Board (NRCB). The appeal is to stop the big animal farming operation planned for a local Hutterite colony.

The plan was submitted by Summerland colony and “would involve more than a dozen new barns and manure storage areas, located six kilometres away from Carmangay.” The entire operation could incorporate as man as 130,000 chickens, 140 dairy cows, 1,300 ducks, 200 geese, and 550 pigs.

The NRCB approved of the initiative in January, but “the village falls outside the required minimum distance for it to be considered directly impacted.”

Ankylosaurs: Stranger than Fiction

It has remained a mystery for numerous decades, since the 1930s. But with the help of paleontologists and armadillo experts, the answer may lie in “bloated, floating dinosaur carcasses.” Interestingly, many theories have been given from the relevant empirical data with zero proved true so far.

Jordan Mallon, a dinosaur paleontologist associated with the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, tested each hypothesis or theory. What did he find about the armored, up-side down dinosaurs? First theory, they fall down hills and land on their backs: discounted theory.

Second theory, predators flip them on their backs, so they can get to their tasty bellies: disproven. Third theory, the bodies swell with gases as they decompose and then this tips them over onto their backs: no evidence.

Fourth theory, it gained some traction. It was called the “bloat-and-float” model. The carcasses got bloated and washed into the sea., where they became super unstable and bloated and then tipped over: proven. The “bloat-and-float” model came out the winner.

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