Medical Research

What matters is not just how much mass the body carries. But what that mass is.

Dalhousie researchers compared emergency room visits in Nova Scotia hospitals before and after pharmacists began prescribing preventative treatment in 2021.

The incubation period for pneumonic plague—which means lung-based, and is the most virulent form of the disease—can be as short as 24 hours.

Dr. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel carried out research that opened a new field with the wonky name optogenetics, combining light with genes to switch on and off neurons in living brains.

The hospital where she was treated has been placed under quarantine, Mayor Maxim Modin said Friday, no longer admitting or discharging patients, and its laboratory halted carrying out routine tests.

Memories of a 39% on my first exam, a leg of lamb and 'Eau du Cadavre.'

New research found that post-menopausal women had a higher risk of retinopathy, cardiovascular disease, neuropathy, falls, and moderate-to-severe depressive symptoms.

Rideau Hall says Fox was elevated to the companion level to honour his ‘powerful global advocacy and unflinching honesty about Parkinson’s.’

An Ontario mother’s acquittal in the death of her infant son is the latest display of medical evidence of shaken baby syndrome discredited in the courtroom.

The lawsuit alleged the defendants were liable for invasion of privacy, acting recklessly and causing distress and anguish.