Researchers pinpoint potential treatment for lethal childhood cancer
An enzyme that drives the growth of an often-lethal childhood brain cancer may hold the key to a future treatment, says a McMaster University-led study.
Nov 10, 2022
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An enzyme that drives the growth of an often-lethal childhood brain cancer may hold the key to a future treatment, says a McMaster University-led study.
Nov 10, 2022
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When a public health crisis happens, it's often quickly an international problem, and health care professionals around the world need to have rapid access to the best guidelines for diagnosis and treatment as well as policy ...
Oct 17, 2022
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Global health has paid a deadly price for not using simple, low-cost blood pressure lowering drugs, statins and aspirin widely in the form of a single pill, also known as the polypill, say two leading cardiologists in a commentary ...
Oct 13, 2022
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A team of researchers working with the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) has developed a simple new symptom-based screening tool that detects asthma risk in children as young as two years of age.
Oct 6, 2022
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Patients can recover from orthopedic surgery just as well without using opioid-based painkillers, says a McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association ...
Oct 4, 2022
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McMaster University researcher Sheila Singh and her team have discovered how glioblastoma, a lethal brain cancer, can evade treatments and kill.
Sep 29, 2022
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Health-care researchers should avoid using terms like "race," "ancestry" and "ethnicity" interchangeably in their studies and research reports, says McMaster University professor Sonia Anand in her latest study in PLOS Global ...
Sep 19, 2022
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Women and men share most of the same risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD), a large international study has found—the first such study to include people not only from high income countries, but also from low- and ...
Sep 8, 2022
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Increase in paramedic transport rates over the last decade far exceeds population growth and walk-in emergency department (ED) visits in Ontario, according to a new study from ICES and McMaster University.
Aug 19, 2022
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Researchers at McMaster University have found a class of well-known antiviral drugs could be part of a one-two punch to treat seasonal influenza and prevent a flu pandemic when used in combination with antibody therapies.
Aug 16, 2022
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