Health

Expanding the availability of medication treatment for opioid use disorder in primary care settings would be a major step toward...

New drugs known as direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) used to treat serious blood clots are associated with reduced risks of...

Children of mothers who follow a healthy lifestyle have a substantially lower risk of developing obesity than children of mothers...

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is associated with changes to the structure of the brain that are also seen in the...

Pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) is an important cause of pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis. This bacterium commonly resides in the nasal cavity....

Credit: Osaka University Blood plays the important role of transporting oxygen and hormones necessary for the human body. Blood contains...

Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes run a higher risk of having babies with heart defects, especially women with high...

The scientists want to decipher the relevance of such RNAs in neurodegeneration and aging and to establish a lab in...

Blood from horseshoe crabs is essential for many drug, implant and environmental safety tests - but blood harvesting, together with...

(Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares) A project coordinated by the Carlos III National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC), has been...

Credit: S Kahlbrock Under the California sun in December, 2007, two entomologists - Prof Lyubomir Penev and Dr Terry Erwin...

Credit: Aleksandra Krolik/EMBL The effectiveness of antibiotics can be altered by combining them with each other, non-antibiotic drugs or even...

Podcast pre-embargo link: https://soundcloud.com/cmajpodcasts/170920-view Community-based health care providers, such as physicians, nurse practitioners and others, should be aware of services...

Barcelona, 3 July 2018: Following concerns over many years that hormonal stimulation of the ovaries necessary for IVF may increase...

Anticonvulsant drugs are increasingly being used to treat low back pain, but a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association...

Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. - Movement neuroscientist Julia Choi at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently received a five-year,...

Barcelona, 3 July 2018: An add-on treatment commonly offered to female IVF patients to improve their chance of success has...

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - June 28, 2018 - Researchers at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern...

Credit: Tony Perry/University of Bath A biological switch that reliably turns protein expression on at will has been invented by...

Credit: Kyoto University iCeMS A protein called "MetastasisMetastasis-suppressor 1" (MTSS1) activates one pathway and inhibits another competing pathway, thus playing...