Doctors at Childrens Hospital are testing whether virtual reality a technology used for gaming can keep childhood cancer patients calm at appointments, a potential pain management strategy that could… [+5310 chars]
If you were looking to book into Peterborough Public Health’s scheduled monkeypox vaccine clinic Friday, you’re out of luck. The clinic, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 5, is already fully b… [+1809 chars]
Preliminary data from the Columbia-Boston (COLBOS) longitudinal biomarker study showed that plasma neurofilament light (NfL) levels were associated with memory function and overall status, but not sl… [+4527 chars]
Medical health officers are warning about a spike in syphilis cases in Saskatchewan this year. So its more or less, trying to push the panic button to enable individuals to know that we are dealing … [+3209 chars]
In a potential game changer for patients with type 2 diabetes, a team of researchers at the Diabetes, Obesity, and Metabolism Institute (DOMI) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has ident… [+4324 chars]
A team of researchers at Tohoku University has reported on a novel function of vitamin K, which is generally known for its importance in blood clotting. The researchers discovered that the fully redu… [+3089 chars]
Across northeastern Ontario, COVID shots are going into the arms of kids under five for the first time. Public health officials are reporting strong bookings for the new children's vaccine, which ha… [+2544 chars]
Having monkeypox, or even being believed to have monkeypox, can come at an emotional cost. People are afraid to have it associated with them because of social stigma, ostracization and assumptions ma… [+1649 chars]
Most of us perform at least a little bit of due diligence to maintain our health. We watch what we eat, we exercise, we see a doctor once a year, and we monitor ourselves and our bodies for abnormali… [+879 chars]
Heart failure is a common and devastating disorder for which there is no cure. Many cardiomyopathies -;conditions that make it difficult for the heart to pump blood such as dilated cardiomyopathy (DC… [+3989 chars]
People who have visited the emergency department for fainting are no more prone to car crashes than other emergency department patients, new research out of UBC's faculty of medicine has found. How … [+1941 chars]
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