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Discovery could be used to help engineer artificial tissue

Published on: 29 May 2012

Those of us living in metropolitan areas don't think twice about our ease of access to medical care, but those in rural areas don't enjoy such easy access to a doctor.

Published on: 29 May 2012

A rapid home test for HIV, similar to early pregnancy tests, will be considered by a federal advisory committee on Tuesday, a move that many public health experts believe could eventually help calm Americans' fears of HIV, leading them to view it as just another serious chronic illness.

Published on: 15 May 2012

Thanks to the Cole Foundation, pediatric leukemia research has again this year received support to recruit some of the best and brightest researchers in the field.

Published on: 11 May 2012

According to a new study led by the Research Institute of the ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï Health Centre (RI MUHC), older women who have been diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat are at higher risk of stroke than men.

Published on: 9 May 2012

A team of University of Ottawa researchers has solved the mystery of how our bodies adapt to low-oxygen environments, raising the prospect that life-threatening conditions such as cancer, stroke and heart disease could someday be successfully treated using a simple, antibiotic-like drug.

Published on: 6 May 2012

Psychological and neuroscience research have chipped away at the credence we give to witness accounts, and shown how memories can be unwittingly manipulated. And yet eyewitness identification remains a very important piece of evidence in many criminal cases.

Published on: 5 May 2012

Current research ethics focuses on protecting study participants, but according to bioethicists from ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï and Carnegie Mellon University, these efforts fail to prevent harms that undermine the social value of research.

Published on: 3 May 2012

(Op-ed by Mark J. Yaffe, professor of family medicine at ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï and St. Mary's Hospital Centre): Elder abuse is an important, frequently missed and under-reported cause of morbidity and mortality in older adults.

Published on: 2 May 2012

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