After enduring debilitating eye pain for more than two decades, an Ontario man took his own life in what his family says was an act of desperation to end the suffering caused by complications from…
New U.S. research has found that sleep texting — which is using smartphones late at night to message friends — is on the rise among teens and college students. Carried out by researchers at Villanova…
Significant doubts have emerged about claims from a Chinese scientist that he has helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies. Prof He Jiankui says the twin girls, born a few weeks ago, had their…
Formerly conjoined twins from Bhutan were released from an Australian hospital on Monday more than two weeks after they were separated in a delicate surgery. The 15-month-old girls Nima and Dawa were joined from the…
A new therapy for children with curved spines was approved for general use after tests only on pigs and dead bodies, an investigation has revealed. Magec rods are supposed to help straighten the spine. But…
‘I felt what I call lighter … and the suicidal thoughts diminished,’ patient says. At 35, Sharon Jakab knew something was wrong when she started hallucinating. “I saw my grandmother on the wall in the room….
It should have been a relatively uncomplicated surgery — removing a cataract in Alvin Hallett’s right eye. But somehow the surgeon accidentally struck his cornea, rendering him blind in that eye. “I had no vision…
How a Canadian medical breakthrough that was 30 years in the making became the world’s most expensive drug — and then quickly disappeared. I. It is one of this country’s great scientific achievements. The first…
It’s called the Testimatic, and it’s being hailed as the world’s first anonymous testicle-checking station. “[The man] goes in there, pulls the curtain around, drops his pants … and then the hand comes out and checks…
The next generation of biotech food is headed for the grocery aisles, and first up may be salad dressings or granola bars made with soybean oil genetically tweaked to be good for your heart. By…
In mid-November 1968, a team of cardiologists at St. Michael’s Hospital received a call they had been waiting on for months. An 18-year-old man had been badly injured in an accident, they learned. He was…
A five-minute scan could be used to spot people at risk of dementia before symptoms appear, researchers claim. Scientists used ultrasound scanners to look at blood vessels in the necks of more than 3,000 people…
A new website is attempting to make it easier for people to get their medications filled. Launched last week, Pillz is a web application that lets you order prescriptions online. You login through either a Facebook or…
When Betina Roberts was looking for a chemotherapy wig, she wanted one that resembled her own hair: long, curly and red. But the 40-year-old mother of five couldn’t find one among the drawers of loaner…
A chemical that makes brain tumours glow pink could help surgeons to remove the cancer safely, a trial suggests. Scientists gave people with suspected glioma a drink containing 5-ALA, a substance known to accumulate in…
Scientists in the US have recruited an unlikely ally in their efforts to develop a new flu treatment. Llamas have been used to produce a new antibody therapy that has the potential to work against…
Three paralysed men, who were told they would spend the rest of their lives in a wheelchair, are able to walk again thanks to doctors in Switzerland. An electrical device inserted around the men’s spines…
When Donna Gutteridge heard her local Pharmasave in Stouffville, Ont., was selling DNA tests that claimed to help determine what medications work best for individual patients, she decided to give it a try. “A lot of the medications,…
Scientists say they have engineered a new antibiotic that appears promising in early clinical trials. The drug, made by Shionogi Inc, acts like the Trojan horse in Greek legend to trick bacteria into allowing it…
‘Depression appears to be quite detectable in this way; it really changes people’s use of social media in a way that something like diabetes doesn’t,’ researchers write. An artificial intelligence (AI) programme trained to scour Facebook posts for “linguistic red flags”…
The humble fruit fly could help scientists unlock the secrets of Alzheimer’s disease. A new £20m Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University includes a fly laboratory. Researchers will be studying the brains of the flies…
What happens when various chemical compounds and flavouring agents are mixed together and then inhaled into the lungs? Nobody knows for sure. That’s because scientists are just beginning to investigate the health effects of vaping…
Combining a pioneering drug with hormone therapy may extend the survival of some women with advanced breast cancer, a trial suggests. Women who received palbociclib and hormone therapy lived up to 10 months longer than…
Every day Ferah Aad can see the multiple signs and symptoms of her son Patrick’s genetic disorder. But despite years of tests, she still does not know exactly what he has. Doctors are mystified. Patrick,…
Some experts question whether the surgery is being done too often or too soon on patients who have not adequately explored less invasive approaches. For the vast majority of patients with debilitating knee pain, joint…
They cost about $11 and contain 60mg of THC, the main psychoactive component of marijuana, and 10mg of CBD. A new observational study will ask 400 women to track their menstrual symptoms over the course…
Obesity surgery may dramatically lower the danger of heart attacks and strokes in patients with diabetes, new research suggests, reinforcing evidence that benefits extend beyond weight loss. The study tracked about 20,000 severely obese patients…
Scientists in London have grown a bio-engineered oesophagus which was successfully implanted into mice. The work, published in Nature Communications, was led by scientists at Great Ormond Street Hospital (Gosh) and the Francis Crick Institute. The…
Small clinical trial in Japan reveals new drug can slow pace of disease by a third. Health Canada has approved a new ALS drug that is showing potential to slow progress of the fatal disease….
Women who need treatment for urinary incontinence should only be offered mesh surgery as a last resort, new draft guidelines for the NHS advise. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) says non-surgical…
Whether it’s a young teenager experiencing the first pimples of puberty or a longtime adult sufferer, acne affects nearly everyone at some point in their lives. In Canada, more than 5.6 million people struggle with…
Cancer is serious business and it’s not something to underestimate. Because of this, millions of women everywhere see their doctors and physicians every year to undergo their annual mammogram, the traditional breast cancer screening procedure…
A Montreal psychiatrist is researching how patients can battle hallucinations with hallucinations. They popped up out of nowhere, telling Richard Breton how he was nothing, nothing but a bad father, a nasty husband, and had…
Driving down a dark country road at night, you see a shape ahead on the roadside. Is it a deer or a mailbox? Your brain is structured to make the best possible decision given its…
Donor without HIV was not available in the country, where there is a chronic shortage of organs for transplant. Doctors in South Africa say they transplanted part of a liver from a mother with HIV…
After a 2011 hunting accident, this Quebec man thought he’d live forever with half a face. Then a confident young surgeon made an extraordinary offer. In a windowless room in the basement of a Montreal…
On the ice, Riley Cote was a tough guy who often encouraged his opponents to drop their gloves. Now, the retired NHL enforcer is asking hockey players to drop their alcohol and opioids, so they…
Maple syrup fills our pantries. The leaf dons our flag and clothing. And soon it could be part our… skin-care regime? U.S. researchers are calling it a “plant-based Botox”: compounds found in maple leaves that…
A Canadian doctor was among a world-class team responsible for giving a young woman in her 20s a new face and, by extension, a second chance at life. Dr. Gaby Doumit, a plastic surgeon and…
Glaucoma may be one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness in Canada, but surprisingly little is known about what actually causes it. Now, U.S. researchers think they have found evidence that the eye disease…
Giving resveratrol through the nose might be an effective way to use the red wine and grape compound to protect against lung cancer, according to a new study that features in the journal Scientific Reports. Lung…
A simple eye test carried out by opticians could help predict who is at risk of developing dementia, a study suggests. The test is usually done to spot early signs of eye disease, by looking…
Green is clean, local swimmers learned Wednesday, as the City of Edmonton celebrated the launch of Canada’s first natural public pool. By noon, the Borden Natural Swimming Pool had about 100 people lined up outside,…
Pre-frontal cortex and violence The pre-frontal cortex is the part of the brain that determines who we are and how we act. This is the part of the brain that is associated with our personalities,…
Scientists in Cambridge say advances in genetics are set to transform the treatment of breast cancer, making it more personalised to each patient. All women there diagnosed with breast cancer have their entire genetic code…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has designated an experimental drug as a potential breakthrough therapy for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a chronic and disabling neurological disease for which there is no cure or…
Scientists say they have taken a significant step towards the goal of giving paralysed people control of their hands again. The team at King’s College London used gene therapy to repair damage in the spinal…
Most women with the most common form of early-stage breast cancer can safely skip chemotherapy without hurting their chances of beating the disease, doctors are reporting from a landmark study that used genetic testing to…
Tim Heenan was in his teens when he injured his left hip in a four-metre fall while goofing around with some buddies. When his school hockey coach saw him favouring his leg before practice soon…
Diagnosing the cause of stomach pain could soon be as simple as swallowing two small pills that work together to report back about what is happening in your body. This technology uses biosensors, an analytical…
It’s a big question for smokers and policymakers alike: Do electronic cigarettes help people quit? In a large study of company wellness programs, e-cigarettes worked no better than traditional stop-smoking tools, and the only thing…
Vaccine use the culmination of years of sometimes frustrating efforts by Canadian government scientists. A significant Canadian scientific achievement occurred in Congo. This week, the made-in-Canada Ebola vaccine was used for the first time to control an…
Pairing high doses of erectile dysfunction medication with the flu shot might sound like a potent cocktail for a wild winter weekend, but one Canadian researcher believes this seemingly unlikely combination may be a way…
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