New research coming out of UBC’s Okanagan campus may take the current ‘gold standard’ for heart valves to a new level of reliability. A team…
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Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania found female and male collegiate athletes take approximately the same amount of time…
Toddlers with high daily touchscreen use are quicker to look at objects when they appear and are less able to resist distraction compared to toddlers…
Air pollution is linked to a heightened risk of progressive and irreversible sight loss, known as age related macular degeneration (AMD), reveals a large long…
Taking a regular afternoon nap may be linked to better mental agility, suggests research published in the online journal General Psychiatry. It seems to be…
There is a Japanese concept called “ikigai,” which provides a useful heuristic for spending your time. It is the intersection of what you love to…
Drug overdoses during COVID-19: NPR looked at how the pandemic may be fueling opioid deaths. President Trump signed the ALS Disability Insurance Access Act before…
Past decades of progress in secondary prevention for transient ischemic attack (TIA) patients were not enough to fully mitigate their elevated risk of subsequent stroke,…
Obese patients at rural primary care clinics lost more weight with a group intervention compared to individual visits with a clinician, a cluster-randomized trial showed.…
Anti-inflammatory oral drug colchicine improved COVID-19 outcomes for patients with relatively mild cases, according to certain topline results from the COLCORONA trial announced in a…