Next-generation sutures can deliver drugs, prevent infections and monitor wounds
Sutures are used to close wounds and speed up the natural healing process, but they can also complicate matters by causing damage to soft tissues with...
Category: Health
Parkinson’s discovery points to possible future treatment approaches
More than 20 years after the discovery of the parkin gene linked to young-onset Parkinson’s disease, researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa...
Predicting COVID-19 outbreaks with cell phone mobility data
Mobility tracking using cell phone data showing greater movement of people is a strong predictor of increased rates of COVID-19, according to new data in CMAJ...
Tissue-integrated microlasers used to measure contraction in beating heart of zebrafish
Researchers have shown that tiny lasers integrated into heart muscle cells or tissue can be used to acquire high-resolution measurements of contractility in heart muscle cells,...
Carbon dioxide levels reflect COVID-19 risk
Tracking carbon dioxide levels indoors is an inexpensive and powerful way to monitor the risk of people getting COVID-19, according to new research from the Cooperative...
Crohn’s disease may be caused by immune signaling failure
People with Crohn’s disease are typically treated with powerful anti-inflammatory medications that act throughout their body, not just in their digestive tract, creating the potential for...
Fungi are present in your lungs
The lungs were for a long time considered to be sterile in health, while in diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) failure in immune mechanisms...
Belgium restricts AstraZeneca vaccine to over 55s
Belgium on Wednesday announced it is restricting AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to over 55s only, following a finding by the EU’s drugs regulator of a link with...
Ultrasensitive, rapid diagnostic detects Ebola earlier than gold standard test
An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Duke University has developed a highly sensitive and rapid diagnostic test for Ebola virus (EBOV) infection. In monkeys infected with...
Clots are AstraZeneca’s latest curse
Hailed as a cheap, easy to store not-for-profit vaccine, the AstraZeneca shot has suffered a litany of setbacks.
