Although it has been a few weeks since we “fell back” from daylight saving time (DST) to standard time, we are all probably still feeling the effects of the sun setting earlier. You might be feeling more tired or sad and you are not alone. The fall time change not only makes cold winter days seem even darker, but this change also affects our circadian rhythms and can have profound effects on mental health. Originally, DST was thought up not by farmers as is widely accepted, b

With an increase in the global pandemic COVID-19 cases, safer measures have been implemented by introducing virtual health care methods. While virtual health care has been present for a while, the use of virtual healthcare visits has increased significantly due to pandemic. Virtual healthcare is defined as virtual visits or medical costs between patient and clinician with use of technology. 47% of Canadians have used virtual health care through the use of calls, emails and te

The concept of productivity and how to quantify it varies from person to person. Things such as an individual’s motivation, personality, talent, education, environment, and time management all contribute to one’s productivity. According to Psychology Today: “Productivity hinges on mental energy, a sense of motivation, alertness and buoyancy. It often emerges naturally from work that one finds inherently meaningful or valuable.” However, should productivity surround only ideas

Since it was first published in late 1987, CRISPR technology has proved itself to be a very powerful gene editing tool. Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, more commonly known under the acronym CRISPR, consists of sequences of genetic code that are naturally used by bacterias to find and destroy viruses (Snyder, 2020). Some diagnostics tests that use CRISPR work by programming this technology to search for specific stretches of DNA and RNA in a chosen v