Paul Johnston spent the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic pacing the floors, imagining the tumours in his patients’ bodies growing bigger without treatment. What was the bigger risk? Their …
A new course at McGill University is putting a spotlight on Indigenous health care, and Indigenous students are the driving forces behind it. The course, called “Indigenous Worldviews in Health …
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A new study in Colorado is trying to answer definitively whether psychedelics help at least some patients dealing with distress over advanced cancer. Dr. Stacy Fischer, co-leader of cancer prevention …
No salt on this margarita, please. Scientists honored the late Jimmy Buffett by naming a newly discovered species of marine snail living in the Florida Keys after one of his …
Call it an ode to joy. New research has found “clear evidence” that listening to classical music in a group setting — such as a concert hall — causes a …
Using an unblemished femur from the same burial site as a control, his lab extracted degraded DNA present in the bone, sequenced it, and identified strings of nucleotides that resembled …
By Jennifer Peltz | Associated Press NEW YORK — The news lit up the world of weed: U.S. health regulators are suggesting that the federal government loosen restrictions on marijuana. …
Bummer. Nearly 4,000 people are hospitalized with foreign objects in their rectum each year, according to a new study published last month in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine — …
Experts say there’s a balance to strike in the academic world when using generative AI—it could make the writing process more efficient and help researchers more clearly convey their findings. …