http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from University of Toronto The offspring of parents who were addicted to drugs or alcohol are more likely to be depressed in adulthood, according to a new study by University of Toronto researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-parental-addictions-linked-adult-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 09 May 2013 10:30:27 EST news287314160 New research indicates that Mexican-Americans born in the United States who are aged 55 and over are significantly more likely than Mexican-American immigrants to report that they have substantial limitations in one or more basic physical activities such as walking, climbing stairs, reaching, lifting, or carrying. (30% versus 25%). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-older-us-born-mexican-americans-physically-limited.html Health Fri, 03 May 2013 13:05:23 EST news286805079 TORONTO: Prompt use of an automated external defibrillator, or AED, can greatly increase the survival rates of people who suffer a cardiac arrest. And MIE Professor Tim Chan, working with Dr. Laurie Morrison at St. Michael's Hospital, has developed a formula to determine where best to place these costly but life-saving devices. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-05-defibrillators.html Cardiology Thu, 02 May 2013 13:30:55 EST news286720250 Researchers at the University of Toronto have shown that playing shooting or driving videogames, even for a relatively short time, improves the ability to search for a target hidden among irrelevant distractions in complex scenes. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-action-videogames-visual.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:48:03 EST news282491276 Both daughters and sons from divorced families are significantly more likely to initiate smoking in comparison to their peers from intact families, shows a new analysis of 19,000 Americans. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-children-divorced-parents.html Health Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:10:20 EST news282478146 Canadians can track how much salt they're eating and identify the main sources of sodium in their diet using a new online Salt Calculator. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-sodium-online-salt-sums.html Health Mon, 11 Mar 2013 09:45:49 EST news282213940 (Medical Xpress)—A new study led by an international team of biologists has identified some of the brain chemicals that allow seals to sleep with half of their brain at a time. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-brain_1_2.html Sleep apnea Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:30:06 EST news280505810 (Medical Xpress)—Obese and overweight people are gaining weight rapidly in low-and middle-income countries while those who are severely undernourished are not experiencing similar weight gains, according to a University of Toronto and Harvard School of Public Health study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-weight-extremes-world.html Overweight and Obesity Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:48:51 EST news277555717 Adults who had parents who struggled with addiction, unemployment and divorce are 10 times more likely to have been victims of childhood physical abuse, according to a new study prepared by the University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-parents-addiction-unemployment-divorce-factors.html Psychology & Psychiatry Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:42:22 EST news275305318 Global lifespans have risen dramatically in the past 40 years, but the increased life expectancy is not benefitting everybody equally, say University of Toronto researchers. In particular, adult males from low- and middle-income countries are losing ground. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-longer-longevity-benefitting.html Health Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:30:01 EST news274722106 The Personal Genome Project Canada (PGP-C) launches this week giving Canadians an unprecedented opportunity to participate in a groundbreaking research study about human genetics and health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-personal-genome-canada.html Genetics Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:50:53 EST news274366236 A new method of growing cardiac tissue is teaching old stem cells new tricks. The discovery, which transforms aged stem cells into cells that function like much younger ones, may one day enable scientists to grow cardiac patches for damaged or diseased hearts from a patient's own stem cells—no matter what age the patient—while avoiding the threat of rejection. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-scientists-closer-youthful-heart-patches.html Cardiology Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:20:27 EST news273258739 (Medical Xpress)—News reports broke this week that since 2003, three Canadian teens have died from drinking energy drinks, and 35 others have suffered series side effects like amnesia and irregular heartbeat. Young people are increasingly turning to energy drinks to fuel study sessions, as well as coming to rely on them in everyday life. But according to a U of T caffeine expert, these kids are playing a dangerous game. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-dangerous-energy-young-people.html Health Wed, 21 Nov 2012 08:18:15 EST news272708164 A study published this month by researchers at the University of Toronto and Toronto's Princess Margaret Hospital has shown that cells derived from the umbilical cord, "Human Umbilical Cord PeriVascular Cells" (HUCPVCs), are more effective in restoring heart function after an acute myocardial infarction (in common parlance, a heart attack) in a pre-clinical model than a similar cell population derived from bone marrow. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-umbilical-cord-cells-outperform-bone.html Medical research Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:29:11 EST news272204941 Psychologists at the University of Toronto and the Georgia Institute of Technology – commonly known as Georgia Tech – have shown that an individual's inability to recognize once-familiar faces and objects may have as much to do with difficulty perceiving their distinct features as it does with the capacity to recall from memory. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-alzheimer-function-visual-clutter.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:43:29 EST news269181794