Read stories about initiatives in medical education taking place at Canada’s 17 Faculties of Medicine.
A recent study by University of Manitoba researchers could lead to groundbreaking new treatments and improved diagnosis of diseases like Alzheimer’s, stroke, epilepsy and diabetes.
If you could take only 24 photos to portray the most meaningful parts of your life, the parts of your life that bring you joy, give you the resilience you need to push through and that define your journey, what would you take?
Adverse drug events could be avoided by sharing patients’ medication histories and previous harmful medication exposures among various health-care facilities. That’s one of the key findings of a study published July 18, 2019 in CMAJ Open.
Researchers from the University of Ottawa, The Ottawa Hospital, CHEO and BORN Ontario have conducted one of the largest studies to date on the effect of cannabis use during pregnancy. They found that reported cannabis use during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of preterm birth. The findings were published in JAMA.
Reducing a specific protein in the fat cells of mice not only prevents onset of Type 2 diabetes but also appears to reverse the disease in the animals, researchers at the University of British Columbia and Sweden’s Karolinska Institute have found.