The premier’s office confirmed the news in an email statement, blaming visibility issues under "very specific lighting conditions."

When the province eventually conducts its review on the response to COVID-19, the president of the Nova Scotia Nurses’ Union can think of one thing in particular that needs to be discussed.

A Dalhousie University scientist and a NSCAD textile professor are teaming up to create a new fabric. It could be used to locally manufacture personal protective equipment like surgical masks. As the CBC's Colleen Jones reports, they have received a COVID-19 grant to study the idea.

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a surge in nationwide shipments of specialities from legendary restaurants

The owner of P.E.I. Brewing Co., the oldest craft brewery on P.E.I., says the business went from preparing for its best year to its worst year.

Prosecutors stunningly dropped all criminal charges Thursday against eight people in the Flint water scandal and pledged to start the investigation from scratch.

Prosecutors who dropped charges against eight people in the Flint water scandal explained their decision in a public forum Friday night, telling frustrated, shocked and saddened residents they must look at hundreds of mobile devices and millions of documents that a previous investigative team never reviewed.

As the nation unifies, divisiveness falls flat.

The upcoming debate about whether to expand the urban boundary is one of the city's big issues this term. But instead of delaying it, the city's testing out a never-before-attempted democratic process. Should they?

Vancouver police officers have seized an eight-foot boa constrictor and multiple weapons from a tent at the Oppenheimer park encampment in Vancouver.

Two villages. 207 New Testaments. Countless steps. The Transform team walk from home to home, sustained by prayer.

Leonard Rodriquez's grieving loved ones say he was a man who would drop everything to help those in need. But they say his death could have been prevented if he'd had the personal protective gear he needed to do his job.

The Citizens for an Accountable Mega Hospital Planning Process are in court trying to get leave to appeal a ruling that dismissed their appeal to the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal over the location of the mega-hospital.

Paramedics who come back from COVID-19 related calls have to remove and either discard or wash their PPE. They are getting help from students called doffing assistants.

Here's a look at what's happening in our area on Thursday, May 7.

Here's a look at what's happening in our area on Friday, May 8.

As college campuses closed and the COVID-19 virus began casting a larger shadow in south central Pennsylvania, members of the nursing and physical therapist assistant programs at Penn State Mont Alto took stock of all the medical personal protection equipment (PPE) items in their labs. The two programs were supplied with hundreds of gloves and dozens of medical gowns and masks, plus other items such as disposable stethoscopes, shoe covers and safety glasses — items no longer needed as the campus transitioned to remote instruction.

OM Hungary’s Christmas puppet ministry is currently underway, with performances in the city of Érd and the surrounding area.

An OM puppet ministry team in Hungary performs during Christmas and Easter, bringing the Gospel message to children, teachers and parents.

Many schools experienced a new international flavour this year when the OM puppet outreach team was joined by a supporting Finnish church.

Behind the glow of city lights, a group of people easily go unnoticed—lost sheep in desperate need of the hope of the gospel.

Through training at OM, Rebecca became more confident sharing Jesus in her home country.

In the weeks around Easter, the OM team in Vinnitsa reached out with a gospel puppet show to more than 1,500 people.

Designer Elie Saab Launches Haute Couture Eyewear To Match His Extraordinary & Overtly Feminine Creations

Investors like something different.

IF ever we needed to indulge in a bout of collective escapism, if only for 60 minutes on a Sunday night, then that time is now. Thankfully ITV has just the thing – Belgravia, the latest big budget costume drama from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and a series that positively ripples with dimples, quiffs, honey-coloured chiffon frocks, eye-popping millinery and glamorous uniforms.

On 26 June, students from Austria Training Centre’s first year completed training in church planting, evangelism and discipleship.

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MILLIONS of face masks to protect Scottish health and care workers against coronavirus could be stuck in limbo at Prestwick airport for a week, it has emerged.

PLANS for league reconstruction have been scrapped after Ladbrokes Premiership clubs indicated there isn't enough support for the proposed changes at this time.

An internationally known gifted-education center is scouting—and helping to develop—gifted students in after-school programs and pullout classes in one of Maryland’s most challenged school districts.

A three-judge panel from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a proposed plan that would have paid certain student-athletes as much as $5,000 annually in deferred compensation.

A Chicago-based former Little League team has filed a lawsuit against Little League International over the organization's decision to strip the team's United States championship earlier this year.

Poland's Dolny Śląsk came from behind to beat hosts Bavaria 3-2 for the amateur title in a final of five penalties.

READING about the Brooks family and their foraging for food (“Family serves a dinner-time treat ... Japanese Knotweed crumble”, The Herald, May 2) provoked very happy memories of another forager-par-excellence; Rosalind Burgess, the Skye weaver, cook, and writer of an excellent book on how to use the things you grow and forage.

The court was furnished in blond wood. There were no wigs and the accused man wore a jersey. But the informality was in contrast to the gravity of the charges. An army officer was on trial for a war crime: the killing of 11 innocent women and children in Afghanistan.

School board members in Tucson, Ariz., acted after learning that a controversial economics textbook that hadn't been properly vetted.

One teacher embraced the technique, with encouragement from a former district administrator. But he was told he had to reverse course, in part because of parent complaints.

Upper respiratory tract infections (URIs) are very common in children. Currently, there are no effective preventive measures for URI. There are no studies on the effect of montelukast for prevention of URI.

In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of preschool-aged children, 12-week prophylactic treatment with montelukast did not reduce the incidence of URI. (Read the full article)

Few studies have examined the reliability of clinical findings in pediatric appendicitis. Clinical prediction rules are most useful if the included variables are reliable across practice settings and practitioners.

Among children who present with possible appendicitis, the interrater reliability varied considerably for patient history and physical examination variables. Those variables with the highest degree of reliability may be best suited for inclusion in appendicitis clinical prediction rules. (Read the full article)

Cross-sectional imaging can reduce the negative appendectomy rate (NAR) in children being evaluated for suspected appendicitis; however, the ability of diagnostic imaging to decrease NAR may vary by age and gender.

Cross-sectional imaging leads to a significant reduction in NAR for children younger than 5 years and girls older than 10 years. For boys older than 5 years being evaluated for uncomplicated appendicitis, advanced imaging appears to have limited value. (Read the full article)

Because pediatric appendicitis is challenging to diagnose, computed tomography (CT) is used frequently. Childhood radiation exposure is associated with increased risk of cancer. Ultrasound avoids radiation exposure but is less sensitive for appendicitis than CT.

Controlling for referral bias, evaluation at a community compared with a children’s hospital is associated with higher CT and lower ultrasound use before appendectomy. CT and ultrasound accuracy for appendicitis in children varies with hospital type. (Read the full article)

Research has shown that dishware size influences self-served portion sizes and meal intake in adults. In children, larger bowls led children to request more food, but whether larger dishware affects children’s self-served portions or intake at meals is not known.

We assessed the effect of increasing dishware size on self-served portions and intake in young children. Larger plates and bowls resulted in larger self-served portions, and indirectly promoted greater intake, emphasizing the importance of age-appropriate dishware. (Read the full article)

Currently, the false-positive rate of appendicitis in children is ≤5%. Abdominal imaging and blood tests (particularly leukocytosis) help minimize the negative appendectomy rate, but appendicitis is not always associated with an elevated white blood cell count.

Reducing the threshold of leukocytosis as a criterion for appendicitis to 8000 to 9000 white blood cells per µL improves specificity (negative appendectomy: <1%) while only marginally decreasing sensitivity. (Read the full article)

Although appendicitis is the most common surgical cause of abdominal pain in pediatrics, its diagnosis remains elusive. When evaluated independently, clinical scoring systems and ultrasonography have been shown to have low to moderate sensitivity in the diagnosis of appendicitis.

Our study evaluated the accuracy of a clinical practice guideline combining the Samuel’s pediatric appendicitis score and selective ultrasonography as the primary imaging modality for children with suspected appendicitis. Our clinical pathway demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity. (Read the full article)

Previous studies have confirmed feasibility of MRI for diagnosis of appendicitis in adults and children. No study has assessed clinical end points when using ultrasound and MRI compared with computed tomography for diagnosis of appendicitis in children.

Radiation-free imaging with ultrasound selectively followed by MRI does not change clinical endpoints compared with CT for diagnosing appendicitis in children, with no difference in time to antibiotic administration, time to appendectomy, negative appendectomy rate, perforation rate, or length of stay. (Read the full article)

Rhinoviruses are commonly detected in both acutely ill and asymptomatic infants and children. The finding may represent new infection or prolonged presence of rhinovirus RNA in the respiratory tract.

In young, otherwise healthy infants, shedding of RNA from the same rhinovirus strain rarely persisted longer than 30 days. (Read the full article)

Three national educational funders explain a new program that is highlighting innovative practices in schools around the country.

Academic gender gaps in reading and math follow different paths as American students move from their school years into adulthood, according to new federal data.

Saudi Arabia has begun an internal investigation into the disappearance of a prominent journalist at its Istanbul consulate and could hold people accountable if the evidence warrants it, according to a Saudi official.