Gastroenterology

Prebiotics could help space travelers stay healthy

Space travel can be hard on the human body, but new research suggests that cultivating a healthy gut microbiome could help astronauts weather the stresses of altered gravity. Researchers presented their work at the American ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Common immune response is found to be protective across many diseases

Combined, infection, autoimmunity and cancer account for 4 out of every 10 deaths worldwide, and represent major global health challenges. In a paper in the journal Cell Reports, Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) researchers ...

Medical economics

Canada's primary care transformation slow, fragmented, study finds

Canada's primary care system is falling short of high-performance standards despite significant investments to transform the sector, according to a study led by Monica Aggarwal, assistant professor at the University of Toronto's ...

Autism spectrum disorders

Novel AI system could diagnose autism much earlier

A newly developed artificial intelligence (AI) system that analyzes specialized MRIs of the brain accurately diagnosed children between the ages of 24 and 48 months with autism at a 98.5% accuracy rate, according to research ...

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