A province-by-province look at excess deaths in Canada during the pandemic Pretend the COVID-19 pandemic never happened. Jun 2, 2022 0 5
Many studies of digestive diseases fail to examine food insecurity A review of studies about the effect of food insecurity on digestive diseases found a dearth of information, even as diet can often be both a direct cause of and a solution for many gastrointestinal conditions. Jun 2, 2022 0 28
Scientists discover new clues to liver cancer progression A team of researchers from the College of Design and Engineering, the N.1 Institute for Health and the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore at the National University of Singapore has recently engineered in vitro tumor models ... Jun 2, 2022 0 33
COVID vaccines for children under five: What parents need to know Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine became available for children aged five to 11 in the UK in April 2022. Those aged 12 and up had already been eligible since 2021. Jun 2, 2022 0 1
The pandemic accelerated decades of research, leading to inhaled vaccine candidate for COVID-19 No one wanted COVID-19. The pandemic has created misery, death and hardship, and it isn't finished yet. Jun 2, 2022 0 4
'Masked' cancer drug stealthily trains immune system to kill tumors while sparing healthy tissues Many cancer treatments are notoriously savage on the body. Drugs often attack both healthy cells and tumor cells, causing a plethora of side effects. Immunotherapies that help the immune system recognize and attack cancer ... Jun 2, 2022 0 9
Researchers devise age-based eligibility method to measure vaccine effectiveness in data-deficient scenarios A research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has demonstrated how to measure vaccine effectiveness (VE) in the absence of adequate public health data, offering an easy-to-implement alternative ... Jun 2, 2022 0 33
Decisive people don't make better decisions – new research I've always been an indecisive person. What to wear, which menu item to pick, when to do house chores; always thinking through scenarios, before committing to even the most trivial of choices. Jun 2, 2022 0 34
Why do I need to pee more in the cold? You're taking a stroll through the park on a cold winter's morning, when it hits you—the need to find a bathroom, and quick! This didn't used to happen in summer. Jun 2, 2022 0 2
Study shows an additional 10,000 children have entered care due to child poverty A new Liverpool-led study, published in The Lancet Public Health, offers evidence that rising child poverty rates are contributing to an increase in children entering care in England. Jun 2, 2022 0 1
