Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 55-year-old male in good health and was diagnosed with a slightly enlarged prostate several years ago. My primary care doctor said he wasn’t concerned enough to prescribe any m… [+3150 chars]
Vitamin D supplements could alleviate symptoms of depression in adults, a recent meta-analysis of studies has found. Researchers from Finland, Australia and the U.S. outlined their findings in a pee… [+1805 chars]
With the monkeypox vaccine in short supply in the United States, thousands of foreigners, including Americans are flocking to Montreal to get their shots. Canada's second-largest city, located about… [+2554 chars]
Twenty people who were blind or suffered severe vision loss had some or all of their sight restored after researchers implanted bioengineered corneas into their eyes. This new technique may prove to … [+4246 chars]
Eligible Toronto residents are now able to book appointments to receive the monkeypox vaccine at city-run clinics. The City of Toronto says appointments will be available for bookings as of 9:30 a.m… [+2023 chars]
Monkeypox vaccines have almost run out in Brighton less than a week after the city welcomed hundreds of thousands of revellers for Pride celebrations. The local rollout of the modified smallpox jab … [+13871 chars]
Polio, an infectious disease that was eradicated in Canada nearly three decades ago, has re-emerged in some Western nations despite widely available and effective vaccines against the illness. And a… [+7981 chars]
A new machine-learning tool can identify diabetes and prediabetes using ECG data, according to research recently published online in BMJ Innovations. Similar artificial intelligence (AI) tools have … [+4736 chars]
Public health officials are scrambling to understand long COVID, the condition in which patients report symptoms like fatigue, muscle weakness, and brain fog months after infection. A new study relea… [+3356 chars]
Introduction Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a leading cause of infertility among women throughout the world. PCOS is an endocrine abnormality that presents as hyperandrogenemia, anovulation, … [+32994 chars]
Fever, chills, bumps, rashes, sore throat, sniffles, headache, oh my – could having any of these symptoms mean you might be seriously ill? In the age of COVID-19, and now monkeypox, experts have see… [+4466 chars]
In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers developed bispecific-antibodies (bsAbs) against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron sub-lineages… [+5228 chars]
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