Debra J. Bilton
@biltondebra.bsky.social
Author/Blogger: Two Dogs, Two Griefs. Martial artist & sensei, student of life, Buddhist.
WIP: A Memoir of Dementia Care-giver Burnout
WIP: A Memoir of Dementia Care-giver Burnout
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Why does Canada need a national women's health strategy?
I'll be discussing this tomorrow on The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn at 7:20 am PST/10:20 am EST.
Tune in & listen 👇🏼
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#HerHealthMatters #WomensHealth #Research
I'll be discussing this tomorrow on The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn at 7:20 am PST/10:20 am EST.
Tune in & listen 👇🏼
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
#HerHealthMatters #WomensHealth #Research
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December 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why does Canada need a national women's health strategy?
I'll be discussing this tomorrow on The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn at 7:20 am PST/10:20 am EST.
Tune in & listen 👇🏼
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
#HerHealthMatters #WomensHealth #Research
I'll be discussing this tomorrow on The Early Edition with Stephen Quinn at 7:20 am PST/10:20 am EST.
Tune in & listen 👇🏼
www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
#HerHealthMatters #WomensHealth #Research
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Canada's critical role in creating the polio vaccine and proving that it was safe
December 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Canada's critical role in creating the polio vaccine and proving that it was safe
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Never wonder whether it's COVID or FLU again.
ANNOUNCING THE FIRST combo rapid tests FOR HOME, approved by Health Canada.
Detect COVID, FLU A, and FLU B with just one swab.
This is a great tool to have ready the next time a family member isn't feeling well.
ANNOUNCING THE FIRST combo rapid tests FOR HOME, approved by Health Canada.
Detect COVID, FLU A, and FLU B with just one swab.
This is a great tool to have ready the next time a family member isn't feeling well.
September 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Never wonder whether it's COVID or FLU again.
ANNOUNCING THE FIRST combo rapid tests FOR HOME, approved by Health Canada.
Detect COVID, FLU A, and FLU B with just one swab.
This is a great tool to have ready the next time a family member isn't feeling well.
ANNOUNCING THE FIRST combo rapid tests FOR HOME, approved by Health Canada.
Detect COVID, FLU A, and FLU B with just one swab.
This is a great tool to have ready the next time a family member isn't feeling well.
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Can you believe it’s almost time to head back to school?? 🎒 🍎
Stock up on #masks and clean air tools from our charity fundraising store so you can stay safe and healthy this school year! 😷
buymask.ca
#CleanAirForAll #MaskUp #WearARespie
Stock up on #masks and clean air tools from our charity fundraising store so you can stay safe and healthy this school year! 😷
buymask.ca
#CleanAirForAll #MaskUp #WearARespie
August 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Can you believe it’s almost time to head back to school?? 🎒 🍎
Stock up on #masks and clean air tools from our charity fundraising store so you can stay safe and healthy this school year! 😷
buymask.ca
#CleanAirForAll #MaskUp #WearARespie
Stock up on #masks and clean air tools from our charity fundraising store so you can stay safe and healthy this school year! 😷
buymask.ca
#CleanAirForAll #MaskUp #WearARespie
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Teen climate activist (my son) needs Canadians to respond to a 2-minute survey to help him build data to bring to local Cdn politicians to urge them to make it easier for Canadians to donate used electronics for reuse (after wiped clean) and recycling. Pls share: marketing4health.formaloo.me/b8j3vp
August 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Teen climate activist (my son) needs Canadians to respond to a 2-minute survey to help him build data to bring to local Cdn politicians to urge them to make it easier for Canadians to donate used electronics for reuse (after wiped clean) and recycling. Pls share: marketing4health.formaloo.me/b8j3vp
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1/ As we enter the later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic — or, more accurately, the stage where its presence is ignored rather than acknowledged — it has become clear that society is not so much recovering as it is repressing. Rather than integrating the lessons of the
August 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
1/ As we enter the later stages of the COVID-19 pandemic — or, more accurately, the stage where its presence is ignored rather than acknowledged — it has become clear that society is not so much recovering as it is repressing. Rather than integrating the lessons of the
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Lessons from the Spanish flu: Why we must keep talking about the COVID-19 pandemic
by KARIMA-CATHERINE GOUNDIAM
in the Globe and Mail
🎁 link
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...
🎁 link
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July 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Lessons from the Spanish flu: Why we must keep talking about the COVID-19 pandemic
by KARIMA-CATHERINE GOUNDIAM
in the Globe and Mail
🎁 link
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...
🎁 link
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c231c7b...
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This is absolutely outstanding - this research is extraordinarily important.
Congratulations to @polybiorf.bsky.social - understanding the oncogenic potential of SARS-CoV-2 is vital.
polybio.org/chan-soon-sh...
Congratulations to @polybiorf.bsky.social - understanding the oncogenic potential of SARS-CoV-2 is vital.
polybio.org/chan-soon-sh...
Chan Soon-Shiong Family Foundation donation expands PolyBio Long COVID program - PolyBio Research Foundation
Funds will support exploration of SARS-CoV-2’s potential to drive cancer, as well as continued work delineating persistence of the virus in...
polybio.org
April 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This is absolutely outstanding - this research is extraordinarily important.
Congratulations to @polybiorf.bsky.social - understanding the oncogenic potential of SARS-CoV-2 is vital.
polybio.org/chan-soon-sh...
Congratulations to @polybiorf.bsky.social - understanding the oncogenic potential of SARS-CoV-2 is vital.
polybio.org/chan-soon-sh...
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Please share widely.
April 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Please share widely.
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Not a day goes by when I don't worry about the mounting dementia epidemic. Biological and demographic factors have put us on a path toward high burden of this disease in Canada.
alzheimer.ca/en/research/...
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alzheimer.ca/en/research/...
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April 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Not a day goes by when I don't worry about the mounting dementia epidemic. Biological and demographic factors have put us on a path toward high burden of this disease in Canada.
alzheimer.ca/en/research/...
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alzheimer.ca/en/research/...
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"A major milestone in the development of the nasal vaccine against COVID-19 has just been reached: five years after the pandemic, the Tours University Hospital and the ANRS – Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANRS MIE), co-sponsors, have been authorized to begin the MUCOBOOST clinical trial."
Première administration chez l’Homme du vaccin nasal Lovaltech contre la COVID-19 url.inrae.fr/4ioM5iW
Première administration chez l’Homme du vaccin nasal Lovaltech contre la COVID-19
COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE - Une étape majeure dans le développement du vaccin nasal contre la COVID-19 vient d’être franchie : cinq ans après la pandémie, le CHRU de Tours et l’ANRS – Maladies infectieuses...
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April 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"A major milestone in the development of the nasal vaccine against COVID-19 has just been reached: five years after the pandemic, the Tours University Hospital and the ANRS – Emerging Infectious Diseases (ANRS MIE), co-sponsors, have been authorized to begin the MUCOBOOST clinical trial."
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*Potential* Game-Changing Vaccine Offers Long-Lasting Protection Against COVID-19 & Flu
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Game-Changing Vaccine Offers Long-Lasting Protection Against COVID-19 & Flu
Cornell researchers have developed a stable, multi-target vaccine offering long-lasting protection against COVID-19 and influenza, with promising results in mice. Cornell University researchers have d...
scitechdaily.com
March 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
*Potential* Game-Changing Vaccine Offers Long-Lasting Protection Against COVID-19 & Flu
scitechdaily.com/game-changin...
scitechdaily.com/game-changin...
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Every day there are more published studies about how bad SARS-CoV-2 is for many different organ systems.
Please take infectious disease prevention seriously.
For airborne pathogens, here are some tools you can use:
open.substack.com/pub/tryangre...
4/
Please take infectious disease prevention seriously.
For airborne pathogens, here are some tools you can use:
open.substack.com/pub/tryangre...
4/
How to be (and make others) sick less often
No one enjoys being sick, not even with a common cold -- let alone with a serious flu, stomach bug, or COVID. No one wants to make others sick either. Fortunately, we have tools to fight viruses.
open.substack.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Every day there are more published studies about how bad SARS-CoV-2 is for many different organ systems.
Please take infectious disease prevention seriously.
For airborne pathogens, here are some tools you can use:
open.substack.com/pub/tryangre...
4/
Please take infectious disease prevention seriously.
For airborne pathogens, here are some tools you can use:
open.substack.com/pub/tryangre...
4/
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1. My new research paper, 'Navigating Uncertainty: Forecasting the Effects of COVID-19 through the lens of Value Pluralism' is now available to download from my website:
nodentibiorisk.co.uk
nodentibiorisk.co.uk
January 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
1. My new research paper, 'Navigating Uncertainty: Forecasting the Effects of COVID-19 through the lens of Value Pluralism' is now available to download from my website:
nodentibiorisk.co.uk
nodentibiorisk.co.uk
Yay! @canadastrong.bsky.social my order was just delivered.
December 7, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Yay! @canadastrong.bsky.social my order was just delivered.
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I’m often asked for a letter to provide friends, family members or colleagues that explains why I take SARS-CoV-2 so seriously and what I do to protect my family. I’ve written this personal letter to share my perspective & the steps I take. I hope it helps others. 🧵👇
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Sean-Mullen-Personal-Letter-SARS-CoV-2-Precautions.pdf | Powered by Box
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November 26, 2024 at 8:51 PM
I’m often asked for a letter to provide friends, family members or colleagues that explains why I take SARS-CoV-2 so seriously and what I do to protect my family. I’ve written this personal letter to share my perspective & the steps I take. I hope it helps others. 🧵👇
uofi.box.com/s/wki3eb09de...
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Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
November 11, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
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A list of all started packs:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
So I built it:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database.
Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.
All - Bluesky Directory
A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
blueskydirectory.com
November 12, 2024 at 12:29 AM
A list of all started packs:
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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My latest:
Grim Reaper: An Ode to Editors
“There was such empathy in his signing his edits "The Grim Reaper" because he knew I would be taken aback by the extent of the changes, the many criticisms and humour was the best way through that."
sleuthsayers.org/2024/11/grim...
#writing
#writers
Grim Reaper: An Ode to Editors
“There was such empathy in his signing his edits "The Grim Reaper" because he knew I would be taken aback by the extent of the changes, the many criticisms and humour was the best way through that."
sleuthsayers.org/2024/11/grim...
#writing
#writers
Grim Reaper: An Ode to Editors.
A criminally compelling web site featuring professional crime writers and crime fighters.
sleuthsayers.org
November 10, 2024 at 12:14 PM
My latest:
Grim Reaper: An Ode to Editors
“There was such empathy in his signing his edits "The Grim Reaper" because he knew I would be taken aback by the extent of the changes, the many criticisms and humour was the best way through that."
sleuthsayers.org/2024/11/grim...
#writing
#writers
Grim Reaper: An Ode to Editors
“There was such empathy in his signing his edits "The Grim Reaper" because he knew I would be taken aback by the extent of the changes, the many criticisms and humour was the best way through that."
sleuthsayers.org/2024/11/grim...
#writing
#writers
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10-minute procedure may repair distorted sense of smell in COVID survivors
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/10-...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/10-...
10-minute procedure may repair distorted sense of smell in COVID survivors
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 20, 2023 at 10:57 PM
10-minute procedure may repair distorted sense of smell in COVID survivors
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/10-...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/10-...