Cancer and exercise during a pandemic
What options do cancer survivors have during a pandemic when there are limited in-person training options and reduced access to exercise facilities? With National Cancer Survivors...
Category: Health
New antibody therapy may reverse diabetic retinopathy and other eye conditions
The life-saving diabetic medication insulin, developed at the University of Toronto 100 years ago, was the first biologic therapy—a protein to treat disease. A century later,...
High number of GPs wanted to leave before COVID, finds survey
The number of GPs who say they were likely to quit direct patient care within five years was 37%, even before the coronavirus pandemic, according to...
Two new technologies that could change cancer treatment
By studying the biomechanics of cancer in the breast and bladder, the Mechano-Control and Edit projects are developing new ways of cancer identification and treatment that...
Researchers discover novel mediator of once-mysterious chronic itch
Although it was first reported in 1880, there has been little research conducted on prurigo nodularis (PN), an inflammatory chronic skin disorder characterized by firm, intensely...
Study says failure to rid amyloid beta protein from brain may lead to Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s disease is one of medicine’s most elusive thieves, a disease that slowly and irreversibly robs a person’s ability to think, reason, remember and maintain normal...
Molecular changes in tissue microenvironment may promote colorectal cancer
According to the National Cancer Institute, colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer diagnosed in the United States, predicted to strike nearly 150,000 people in...
Rural residents, American Indians travel farthest for certified stroke care
The distance a stroke patient must travel to receive care at a certified stroke center differs by race, age, income and insurance status, with the largest...
Drug commonly used as antidepressant helps fight cancer in mice
A class of drug called monoamine oxidase inhibitors is commonly prescribed to treat depression; the medications work by boosting levels of serotonin, the brain’s “happiness hormone.”
Largescale brain epigenetics study provides new insights into dementia
The largest study of its kind has unveiled new insights into how genes are regulated in dementia, including discovering 84 new genes linked to the disease.
