HIV: A therapeutic advance for resource-limited settings
ANRS 12286 MOBIDIP(1), a clinical trial running in parallel in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Cameroon, Burkina Faso, and Senegal),...
Legalizing marijuana will harm health of youth in Canada
The federal government's bill C-45 to legalize marijuana in Canada will jeopardize the health of young people and Parliament should...
First Nations, Inuit babies hospitalized more often in first year of life
First Nations and Inuit babies were hospitalized much more often in the first year of life compared with non-Indigenous babies,...
Increasing the age limit for Lynch syndrome genetic testing may save lives
Copenhagen, Denmark: Raising the age limit for routine genetic testing in colorectal cancer could identify more cases of families affected...
How self-regulation can help young people overcome setbacks
Failing an exam at school, getting rejected for a job or being screamed at by your teacher or superior are...
CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations
- New York, NY (May 29, 2017) -- As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published...
Remembrance of things past — bacterial memory of gut inflammation
Credit: Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School. (BOSTON) - The microbiome, or the collections of microorganisms present in the body,...
‘Heat island’ effect could double climate change costs for world’s cities
Overheated cities face climate change costs at least twice as big as the rest of the world because of the...
Vision keeps maturing until mid-life
HAMILTON, ON, May 29, 2017 - The visual cortex, the human brain's vision-processing centre that was previously thought to mature...
How the visual cortex changes from birth to old age
A study of post-mortem brain tissue reveals the human primary visual cortex (V1) develops gradually throughout life. The research, published...
High-fat diet alters reward system in rats
Exposure to high-fat diet from childhood may increase the sensitivity of the dopamine system later in adulthood, according to a...
Connecting the dots between dreams and brain disease
Dr. John Peever at the University of Toronto has been working to answer one of humanity's greatest questions: how do...
Some heart attack patients may not benefit from beta blockers
New research challenges established medical practice that all heart attack patients should be on beta blockers. The study -- by...
Stopping drug abuse can reverse related heart damage
Quitting methamphetamine use can reverse the damage the drug causes to the heart and improve heart function in abusers when...
Historical rainfall levels are significant in carbon emissions from soil
Credit: Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory AUSTIN, Texas - Scientists have known that microbes living in the ground can...
Biologics before triple therapy not cost effective for rheumatoid arthritis
Stepping up to biologic therapy when methotrexate monotherapy fails offers minimal incremental benefit over using a combination of drugs known...
Cells pumping iron to prevent anemia
Credit: Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan -- Maintaining a good balance of iron in the body is necessary for health: too...
Too much stress for the mother affects the baby through amniotic fluid
The feeling of constantly being on edge, always having to take care of everything, not being able to find a...
New test method aims to predict allergenic potency of chemicals
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a method which determines not only whether a chemical or substance is...
The immune system promotes spontaneous heart regeneration
In adult mammal hearts, cardiomyoctyes do not proliferate following damage, like that caused by myocardial infarction. However, the inability to...
