While it’s true that many Canadians would benefit from more exercise and from improving the quality of their diet, research shows that society often blames nutrition problems and food insecurity on personal choices like lack of willpower and…
Category: 8. Health
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Why we need to talk about the root causes of food insecurity
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Harm reduction vending machines in New York State expand access to overdose treatment and drug test strips
Two studies led by an opioid treatment program run by the University at Buffalo and UBMD Emergency Medicine have found that harm reduction vending machines installed across New York State are well utilized and provide critical, lifesaving…
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Identification of sensorineural hearing loss subtypes using unsupervised machine learning and assessment of their replicability
World Health Organisation. WHO Global Estimates on Prevalence of Hearing Loss. https://www.who.int/deafness/estimates/en/ (2018).
Livingston, G. et al. Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the lancet commission. Lancet…
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Relationship between pelvic incidence and hip, pelvic, and lumbar motion during squatting in healthy individuals with high and low pelvic incidence
Agricola, R. et al. Pincer deformity does not lead to osteoarthritis of the hip whereas acetabular dysplasia does: Acetabular coverage and development of osteoarthritis in a nationwide prospective cohort study (CHECK). Osteoarthr. Cartil. 21,…
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Environmentally sustainable kidney care in low- and middle-income countries
Smyth, B. et al. Green nephrology: a series of mini reviews on minimizing the environmental impact of kidney health care. Kidney Int. 104, 7–11 (2023).
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Pediatricians offer advice on dealing with warts
Warts are small, firm bumps on the skin caused by viruses from the human papillomavirus (HPV) family. Warts are common among school-aged children but can affect people of any age.
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A new strategy to beat lung cancer: Chemists develop first-in-class inhibitor targeting a key epigenetic regulator
A research team has made a breakthrough in epigenetic drug discovery. The researchers have successfully developed a first-in-class chemical inhibitor that precisely and selectively targets the ATAC complex, a critical cellular “switch operator”…
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Rapid concussion detection using saliva
Imagine a simple saliva test that makes concussion screening faster and more objective than ever before. Thanks to neurotechnology being developed and piloted by Andrew Cordssen-David (BSc ’22, MBET ’23), co-founder and CEO of HeadFirst, a small,…
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Turning MRI into a quantitative microscope to detect white matter injury
Early diagnosis and noninvasive monitoring of neurological disorders require sensitivity to elusive cellular-level alterations that emerge much earlier than volumetric changes observable with millimeter-resolution medical imaging.
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Not all sitting is the same when it comes to brain health
Passive activities such as watching television have been linked to worse memory and cognitive skills, while ‘active sitting’ like playing cards or reading correlate with better brain health, researchers have found.
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