British Columbia Premier David Eby recently announced that his government plans to open highly secure facilities where people struggling with mental health, serious brain injuries and severe addictions will receive involuntary ...
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Environmental, social and public health emergencies are becoming more frequent and severe around the world. The rapid pace at which emergencies are occurring, compounded by social crises like homelessness, addictions and ...
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It can start during the most commonplace of incidents, such as slipping in the bathroom or injuring a shoulder playing baseball.
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Americans can once again order COVID-19 tests, without being charged, sent straight to their homes.
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Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a new way to measure heart contraction and electrical activity in engineered human heart tissues, according to findings published in Science Advances.
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The effects of sustained drug abuse can manifest in many ways. Loss of memory and reduced cognitive functions are some of the effects that can persist for years. Neurobiologists at the University of California San Diego have ...
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Researchers led by Jacques Drouin and his team at the IRCM discovered an intercellular communication mechanism behind the balance of hormones needed to keep a human healthy.
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The arrival of GLP-1 analog drugs (such as Wegovy) marked a huge shift in the weight-loss drug market. These drugs have been shown to lead to significant weight loss in users—as much as 15% or more of their body weight ...
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More than a dozen bacterial species among the hundreds that live in people's mouths have been linked to a collective 50% increased chance of developing head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), a new study shows. Some ...
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Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their colleagues have identified a gene responsible for some inherited retinal diseases (IRDs), which are a group of disorders that damage the eye's light-sensing ...
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