Archive: 05/04/2016
Household food insecurity at record high in the North, researchers say
Despite anti-poverty efforts, hunger in Canada has not decreased - and it has now reached epidemic levels in Nunavut, where almost half of households suffer from food insecurity, according to a new study by University of ...
Apr 5, 2016
Neuroscientists working to test brain training claims
The draw is huge: Play video games and get smarter. For the past decade, various groups have claimed that their cognitive training programs do everything from staving off neurodegenerative disease to enhancing education and ...
Apr 5, 2016
Pain and physical function improve after weight-loss surgery
Among a group of patients with severe obesity who underwent bariatric surgery, a large percentage experienced improvement in pain, physical function, and walking capacity over 3 years, according to a study appearing in the ...
Apr 5, 2016
Targeting the gut microbiome to fight heart disease
A compound found in red wine, resveratrol, reduces the risk of heart disease by changing the gut microbiome, according to a new study by researchers from China. The study is published in mBio, an open-access journal published ...
Apr 5, 2016
Invading the brain to understand and repair cognition
People are using brain-machine interfaces to restore motor function in ways never before possible - through limb prosthetics and exoskletons. But technologies to repair and improve cognition have been more elusive. That is ...
Apr 5, 2016