Guidance on animal-borne infections in the Canadian Arctic
A new review on zoonotic infections—diseases transmitted by animals—in the Canadian Arctic provides timely guidance to ...
Fatty muscles raise the risk of serious heart disease regardless of overall body weight, study shows
People with pockets of fat hidden inside their muscles are at a higher risk of dying or being hospitalized from a heart ...
Ontario is profiting from online betting, but at what cost to problem gambling?
Ontario became the first province in Canada to regulate online gambling and sports. This opened the door to an industry that ...
Why a daily glass of milk really could reduce bowel cancer risk—an oncologist explains
A glass of milk a day could help keep bowel cancer away—or so finds a study by Oxford University and Cancer Research UK. The research suggests that increasing daily milk intake by as little as one ...
COVID's origins reviewed: Lab leak or natural spillover?
Whether COVID-19 was unleashed by a laboratory mishap or spilled over from animals remains an enduring, fiercely contested ...
Vaccine misinformation: a lasting side effect from COVID
A fringe anti-vaccine movement took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to bring conspiracy theories to a much wider audience, ...
'Generational problem': Youth still struggling in pandemic's shadow
Like many other young people, Amelie feels that the COVID-19 pandemic—and its procession of lockdowns and restrictions—marked ...
US health dept providing Moderna $590 mn to speed mRNA bird flu vaccine
US health officials announced Friday they were awarding $590 million to Moderna to develop mRNA vaccines against influenza, ...
Unique characteristics of a rare liver cancer identified as clinical trial of new treatment begins
Like many rare diseases, fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma (FLC) mounts a ferocious attack against an unlucky few—in ...
Qigong significantly decreases chronic low back pain in US military veterans
Chronic pain is widespread in the United States, particularly among military veterans, affecting between 40 to 70% of this ...
New study shows stem cell therapy 'jump-start' brain repair after stroke
Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States has a stroke. For survivors of the most common type of stroke, called an ...
Sepsis molecule discovery could lead to improved treatments for critically ill patients
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have uncovered how a molecule found on certain bacteria may drive blood ...