Roughly 10 million people in the United States suffer from some sort of tremor disorder, whether that’s essential tremor — the most common movement disorder — or the tremors resulting from Parkinson’s disease. The current…
It was a very delicate operation. Surgeons at Johns Hopkins Hospital accomplished a medical first last month, with a successful full transplant of a penis, scrotum, and part of the abdominal wall. The transplant recipient has…
Residents at an Oshawa, Ont., retirement home are among the first people in the country to try an innovative therapy for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients called the BikeAround. The device combines a stationary bicycle, a dome-shaped projector and Google Street…
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A Toronto day hospital is testing out what some have dubbed “drive-by joint replacement surgery,” which does away with the traditional two-to-three day hospital stay, and gets patients from the operating room to their homes…
There were no eureka moments, but there were some pleasant ones. As the world went about its business, four people and accompanying family members converged on an optometrist’s office in north Oakville Thursday morning for…
Rob Anderson was fighting wildfires in Alberta when the helicopter he was in crashed into the side of a mountain. He survived, but lost his left arm and left leg. More than 10 years after that…
Researchers at the University of Calgary say they have developed a portable brain-imaging system that would literally shed light on concussions. Symptoms of a concussion can vary greatly between individuals and include headaches, nausea, loss…
Susan Stewart remembers going shopping with her daughter on Black Friday in December 2016. The next day, she felt nauseous and by Monday, her urine was dark brown, prompting her to book an appointment with…
An East Coast ocean technology company says it has discovered properties in seaweed off Newfoundland and Labrador that inhibits the growth of breast cancer cells. A press release from Oceans Ltd. says it has been studying seaweed’s…
“Game of Thrones” fans may have shed few tears over the poisoning death of King Joffrey I Baratheon, a nasty character if ever there was one. But could real-world medicine have saved the young monarch?…
Scientists in Germany who developed a new way to make a key malaria drug several years ago said Wednesday they have come up with a technique to make the process even more efficient, which should increase global…
Heart devices that use software or wireless communications may be vulnerable to hacker attacks that could cause life-threatening malfunctions, U.S. cardiologists say. Medical devices have been targets of hacking attacks for over a decade, physicians note in a paper…
A second patient has been treated in a historic gene editing study in California, and no major side effects or safety issues have emerged from the first man’s treatment nearly three months ago, doctors revealed…
Dr. Markus Selzner has just come from surgery, still in his scrubs, and he’s excited to show off his baby. A configuration of fluid-filled tubing, pumps and other mechanical components, it’s not the prettiest baby…
Scientists in Japan and Australia have developed a blood test that can detect the build-up of toxic proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease. The work, published in the journal Nature, is an important step towards a blood…
When patients go to the dentist to fill a cavity, they’re trying to solve a problem — not create a new one. But many dental patients get some bad news: bacteria can dig under their…
Salt all over the roads — it just wouldn’t be a Canadian winter without it. In fact, we use about seven million tonnes of it each year to keep from slipping on ice and snow….
“If you ever hear about a simple blood test run for the hills because there is no such thing.” That’s the advice from health journalism watchdog Gary Schwitzer, publisher of HealthNewsReview.org a website aimed at helping the…
A key cannabis compound helped to reduce the number of drop seizures in patients with a severe form of epilepsy, newly published results of a clinical trial suggest. The study, published Wednesday in The Lancet, suggests…
Тest includes some of the most deadly cancers currently lacking screening tools. Scientists are reporting progress on a blood test to detect many types of cancer at an early stage, including some of the most…
Canadian provinces should spend more on social services instead of health care in order to improve the overall health of the population, new Canadian research suggests. While health spending increases seem like a common sense…
Feds to hire company with patented method to identify online trends and predict real-life events. The Canadian government will soon hire an Ottawa-based company specializing in social media monitoring and artificial intelligence to forecast spikes…
Researchers in Scotland have saved the leg of a dog using a new technique to grow bones in the laboratory. Eva the dog would have had her entire leg amputated were it not for a…
More living organ donors needed, doctors say. Organ donations at all-time high but demand outpacing supply in most of the country. After donating one of her kidneys to a stranger five years ago, Marianne Janz…
A recent study looking at iPhone’s built-in pedometers is a step toward using the tool as a clinical intervention in improving people’s health, a University of B.C. researcher said. Smartphones pose an opportunity for researchers…
Scientists are close to establishing what causes a smell associated with sufferers of Parkinson’s disease. They hope it could lead to the first diagnostic test for the disease. The breakthrough came after Joy Milne astonished…
It sounds like the plot of a science fiction novel: Scientists discover how to eradicate an entire species. Environmentalists want to stop the research. A United Nations committee invites experts to an online forum to consider the facts. Behind the…
Jeff Lagerquist, CTVNews.ca Staff For the first time ever, an experimental drug has showed promise in lowering levels of brain toxins caused by Huntington’s disease. It’s an early-stage breakthrough that could guide researchers towards an effective…
Beating rhythmically and suspended in a jar, tiny heart-like structures made from stem cells are the latest innovation for drug testing — technology that has the potential to save pharmaceutical companies money. They’re developed by Canadian-backed…
It took well over a year to determine if a woman who received a womb transplant would become the first in the U.S. to give birth, transplant surgeons in Dallas said Monday. Baylor University Medical…
It took well over a year to determine if a woman who received a womb transplant would become the first in the U.S. to give birth, transplant surgeons in Dallas said Monday. Baylor University Medical…
U.S. regulators have approved a first-of-a-kind test that looks for mutations in hundreds of cancer genes at once, giving a more complete picture of what’s driving a patient’s tumour and aiding efforts to match treatments…
Brain immaturity during adolescence could explain why some teenagers fail to respond to incentives such as cash rewards. Adults are good at putting maximum mental effort into the things that matter most. But, brain circuits…
Confronting an avatar on a computer screen helped patients hearing voices to cope better with hallucinations, a UK trial has found. Patients who received this therapy became less distressed and heard voices less often compared…
A Ph.D. student in Ontario has made a groundbreaking discovery that may have the potential to prevent cancer cells from spreading. Caitlin Miron, a Ph.D. student in the chemistry department at Queen’s University, has identified…
Gene-editing has been attempted on cells inside a patient, in a world first by doctors in California. Brian Madeux, 44 from Arizona, was given the experimental treatment to try to correct a defect in his…
US regulators have approved the first pill that can be digitally tracked through the body. The Abilify MyCite aripiprazole tablets – for treating schizophrenia and manic episodes – have an ingestible sensor embedded inside them…
Wounds heal more quickly if they occur during the day rather than after dark, a study suggests. It found burns sustained at night took an average of 28 days to heal, but just 17 for…
A low cost and non-invasive device that can detect skin cancer has won this year’s international James Dyson Award. The sKan was invented by four Canadian engineering graduates from Ontario’s McMaster University. The handheld device…
“‘Unbelievable’: Heart stents fail to ease chest pain” was the sensational headline in the New York Times on Thursday, sparking a heated debate among doctors about their go-to treatment for angina — pain in the chest caused by…
Canadian expert says new U.S. study reflects ‘an epidemic’ of sleep deprivation among adolescents. Teens are getting less sleep than they did before smartphones became commonplace, prompting concerns about potentially serious health consequences, researchers say. A study published…
A first attempt at gene therapy for a disease that leaves babies unable to move, swallow and, eventually, breathe has extended the tots’ lives, and some began to roll over, sit and stand on their…
Researchers led by Carnegie Mellon University’s Marcel Just and the University of Pittsburgh’s David Brent have developed an innovative and promising approach to identify suicidal individuals by analyzing the alterations in how their brains represent…
Why pneumonia is so serious Pneumonia is a serious health-care problem in Canada, the U.S. and globally, especially for young children and the elderly. In 2015, the World Health Organization estimated the lung infection killed nearly a million…
Researchers at the University of the West of Scotland have discovered a protein that can stop viruses developing. The team had already established that the same protein can suppress cancer. Now the fight is on…
U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved a second gene therapy for a blood cancer, a one-time, custom-made treatment for aggressive lymphoma in adults. The Food and Drug Administration allowed sales of the treatment from Kite Pharma. It…
A duo of French scientists said Wednesday they may have found a physiological, and seemingly treatable, cause for dyslexia hidden in tiny light-receptor cells in the human eye. In people with the reading disability, the…
Scientists may have found an innovative way to kill off cancer cells in acute myeloid leukemia, all the while preserving and regenerating healthy red blood cells. The new study was carried out by researchers from the McMaster Stem…
A researcher at the University of Arizona is experimenting with a new therapy to help treat rattlesnake bites. Dr. Vance G. Nielsen hopes that once it is ready for humans, the therapy will be administered…
Scientists discover a new link between the brain and immune system. It’s time to rewrite the neuroscience textbooks, after one of the basic tenets of neurology was overturned this week, opening up a whole new…
Researchers have designed a “smart” bandage that is much more effective and faster-acting than regular healing patches. The same device can also be loaded with drugs, depending on the type and stage of the wound…
Most addiction vaccines in development are being tested only on animals. Vaccines are lifesavers. Over the past century vaccines for polio, cholera and measles have saved millions of lives. And as a global drug epidemic deepens, claiming more and more…
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