As prices for genetic testing go down and awareness of what these tests can do goes up, more and more people are choosing to have their DNA analyzed. One limitation to these tests is that even when they are conducted with ...
Jun 2, 2022
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Although everyone has been affected by COVID-19 and the pandemic it spawned, not all populations have been affected equally. In the United States, for example, COVID-19 cases and death rates have been disproportionately high ...
May 26, 2022
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The estimated prevalence of hereditary pancreatitis in South Australia is higher than in Europe, particularly among Indigenous young people, according to research published today by the Medical Journal of Australia.
May 23, 2022
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A team of Canadian researchers, including Inuit and other Indigenous researchers, have published the first study of Inuit surgical outcomes today in CMAJ Open. The study used data from The Ottawa Hospital, which is the quaternary ...
May 3, 2022
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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)—diseases that are not transmissible between individuals—account for the leading causes of death globally. However, there is limited data about how NCDs affect vulnerable populations, especially ...
Feb 18, 2022
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For the first time, researchers have found the influenza vaccine to be just as effective in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as it is non-Indigenous people.
Oct 5, 2021
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Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) and University of Calgary have found unusually high rates of Spinal Bulbar Muscular Atrophy, also known as Kennedy's Disease, a rare neuromuscular disorder, among Indigenous ...
Aug 10, 2021
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Indigenous traditions often place land at the center of their cultures. However, with more than half of Canada's Indigenous population now living in urban areas and Indigenous communities struggling to overcome legacies of ...
Mar 30, 2021
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Are there differences in immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus between populations from different geographic regions? Part of the answer to this question is to be found in the genomes of these groups of people, specifically ...
Jun 10, 2020
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It's easy to feel trapped in the present by COVID-19—stuck at home, preoccupied with fears of what's to come.
Apr 9, 2020
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