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CTV News
3 hours ago
- CTV News
‘Extremely' intoxicated man arrested after banging on front door of Barrie home
A man is pictured locking a door in this file image. Barrie police are commending a resident for keeping their doors locked and not confronting an unknown, reportedly intoxicated man banging on their front door. Police say the John Street homeowner contacted the authorities Monday morning to report the situation, adding the man refused to leave. After officers arrived, police say the man's behaviour became increasingly unpredictable and uncooperative 'due to his extreme level of impairment.' Officers arrested the 22-year-old individual for being intoxicated in a public place, noting they believed he posed a risk to the public and to himself. He was held at Barrie Police Headquarters until he was deemed safe to be released.
CNN
2 days ago
- General
- CNN
More than 400 guinea pigs rescued from Los Angeles home
Southern California Guinea Pig Rescue said a resident in southern Los Angeles was facing eviction and needed help surrendering 'approximately 200 guinea pigs.' But when volunteers arrived, they discovered the home had more than double the amount of guinea pigs they anticipated.
CNN
2 days ago
- General
- CNN
More than 400 guinea pigs rescued from Los Angeles home
Southern California Guinea Pig Rescue said a resident in southern Los Angeles was facing eviction and needed help surrendering 'approximately 200 guinea pigs.' But when volunteers arrived, they discovered the home had more than double the amount of guinea pigs they anticipated.
CBC
4 days ago
- General
- CBC
Weekend closures to come for Florenceville Bridge
The Florenceville Bridge on Route 130 will be closed some weekends this summer and into fall. This has one resident frustrated since the bridge is the only means in Florenceville-Bristol to get across the St. John River after the partially covered Old Florenceville Bridge closed 4½ years ago.
Medscape
5 days ago
- Health
- Medscape
Fasting Before Bloodwork Is Outdated for Most Patients
This transcript has been edited for clarity. Back when I was a resident, we always told patients to go do their blood test on an empty stomach. They would line up every morning at the hospital to get all their blood tests done, and every morning that line would stretch out the hospital doors and around the block. Then, by lunchtime, it was a ghost town. You don't see that anymore for one simple reason. It doesn't really matter if you're on an empty stomach or not. We all know that for your [complete blood count], electrolytes, and most routine blood tests, it doesn't actually matter whether you've been eating or not. The only reason to do fasting blood tests is because of two things:diabetes and cholesterol. Back in the day, fasting blood glucose was how we picked up diabetes. Now, most of us — I hope — tend to use hemoglobin A1c, given that it's a 3-month average of your blood glucose levels, and whether you ate breakfast or not isn't really going to throw it off by all that really no need to fast for most patients with diabetes. The other issue is cholesterol. Ever since we started focusing more on LDL, we had a problem because LDL isn't directly measured in most labs. It's calculated using total cholesterol, HDL, and triglycerides. Triglycerides can go nuts based on what you ate last night or that morning. To make sure everything was standardized, we told patients to be on an empty stomach when they did their blood tests. If the triglycerides were too high, you couldn't get an accurate calculation of the LDL. Now, it turns out that nonfasting blood tests for cholesterol are not off by all that there are rare cases of patients with super high triglycerides for whatever reason, but for most people, the difference was minor. Now, we have other tests like ApoB and we also check things like Lp(a), which are not affected by whether you're fasting or not. At this point, there's no real reason to do fasting blood maybe made sense 20 years ago, but not anymore. It's also easier for people to get their blood tests at any time of day rather than everybody rushing in first thing in the morning. It just makes things a little bit easier for the patient getting routine labs — and that's progress. Stop doing fasting blood tests. Your patients probably don't need them. For Medscape, I'm Dr Christopher Labos.
