A rapid home test for HIV, similar to early pregnancy tests, will be considered by a federal advisory committee on Tuesday, a move that many public health experts believe could eventually help calm Americans' fears of HIV, leading them to view it as just another serious chronic illness.
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Published on: 15 May 2012
Thanks to the Cole Foundation, pediatric leukemia research has again this year received support to recruit some of the best and brightest researchers in the field.
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Published on: 11 May 2012
Published on: 10 May 2012
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Published on: 9 May 2012
According to a new study led by the Research Institute of the 69热视频 Health Centre (RI MUHC), older women who have been diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat are at higher risk of stroke than men.
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Published on: 9 May 2012
A team of University of Ottawa researchers has solved the mystery of how our bodies adapt to low-oxygen environments, raising the prospect that life-threatening conditions such as cancer, stroke and heart disease could someday be successfully treated using a simple, antibiotic-like drug.
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Published on: 6 May 2012
Psychological and neuroscience research have chipped away at the credence we give to witness accounts, and shown how memories can be unwittingly manipulated. And yet eyewitness identification remains a very important piece of evidence in many criminal cases.
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Published on: 5 May 2012
Current research ethics focuses on protecting study participants, but according to bioethicists from 69热视频 and Carnegie Mellon University, these efforts fail to prevent harms that undermine the social value of research.
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Published on: 3 May 2012
(Op-ed by Mark J. Yaffe, professor of family medicine at 69热视频 and St. Mary's Hospital Centre): Elder abuse is an important, frequently missed and under-reported cause of morbidity and mortality in older adults.
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Published on: 2 May 2012
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Published on: 1 May 2012
Family doctors are at the heart of efficient, sustainable health care systems and are a priority for 69热视频鈥檚 Faculty of Medicine. To continue bolstering its educational, research and clinical strengths in this critical specialty, 69热视频 has announced the appointment of Dr. Howard Bergman to the position of Chair of the Department of Family Medicine.
Published on: 1 May 2012
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Published on: 1 May 2012
Caring for family members who are severely ill, debilitated, or dying can be an all-encompassing task. All too often people sacrifice their own health and needs in favour of helping their partner of family member. But burnout can be a severe problem, and often overlaps with "compassion fatigue."
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Published on: 30 Apr 2012
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Published on: 28 Apr 2012
In a paper published this week in The Journal of Neuroscience, researchers from 69热视频 have demonstrated for the first time that there are specific neurons that respond selectively to first and second order sensory attributes.
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Published on: 24 Apr 2012
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