A new review on zoonotic infections—diseases transmitted by animals—in the Canadian Arctic provides timely guidance to ...

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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 ...

Ontario became the first province in Canada to regulate online gambling and sports. This opened the door to an industry that ...

A fringe anti-vaccine movement took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to bring conspiracy theories to a much wider audience, ...

Whether COVID-19 was unleashed by a laboratory mishap or spilled over from animals remains an enduring, fiercely contested ...

Like many other young people, Amelie feels that the COVID-19 pandemic—and its procession of lockdowns and restrictions—marked ...

A group of global experts is proposing a new way to define and diagnose obesity, reducing the emphasis on the controversial ...

Frank Wampol had a dark realization when he came across some alarming data a few years ago: More than 5,000 male construction ...

The complexity of the human brain—86 billion neurons strong with more than 100 trillion connections—enables abstract thinking ...

Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have improved our understanding of how rotavirus, ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally, posing a particularly significant ...