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  • A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a railway station in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, Sept 18, 2023. Authorities in one province of Pakistan are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison. Earlier this month, the government in Sindh introduced a law that threatens to imprison parents for up to one month if they fail to get their children immunized against polio or eight other common diseases. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

    Pakistan officials consider a new way to boost polio vaccination: prison

    Authorities in one Pakistan province are turning to a controversial new tactic in the decades-long initiative to wipe out polio: prison.

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  • FILE - A sign displays an unofficial temperature as jets taxi at Sky Harbor International Airport at dusk, July 12, 2023, in Phoenix. Phoenix, Arizona’s most populous city, is in the record books again for notching a record for dry heat. The National Weather Service said Sunday, Oct 1, that the monsoon season this year in the arid Southwest dropped only 0.15 inches (.38 centimeters) of rainfall from June 15 to Sept. 30. That’s the driest since the agency began keeping records in 1895. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

    Arizona's biggest city has driest monsoon season since weather service began record-keeping in 1895

    After a summer of extreme heat, Arizona’s most populous city is in the record books again. This time Phoenix is notching a record for dry heat.

Elaine Chin

Elaine Chin, MD, MBA (U of Toronto)

North American trailblazer of Precision Medicine, founder of Executive Health Centre, a premiere personalized medicine practice in Canada and Innovation Health Group, offering virtual health testing, consultation services, enterprise and well programs. She is the former Chief Wellness Office at TELUS Communications. Presently, she is an expert contributor to CP24 and consultant at Good Housekeeping Magazine in New York. She is the author of a 2015 top-ten book “Lifelines – unlocking the secret of your telomeres for a longer, healthier life” and a 2021 book, “Welcome Back! How to reboot your physical and mental well-being for a post-pandemic world”, cited as a Top 10 Wellness Book by Indigo Books. At the start of the pandemic, Dr. Chin launched the Masking Together Challenge and has helped to raise close to $500,000 so far to secure safe housing for house staff, support research at the University of Toronto and distribute masks and offer her newest book, WELCOME BACK for frontline healthcare workers in Canada. Dr. Chin’s mission is to make personalized medicine accessible to all and help people of all ages bring their physical and mental health into harmony.

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