Researchers have reviewed medical marketing (the marketing of prescription drugs, disease awareness, laboratory tests and health services to consumers and…
Worrisome statistics around medical cannabis users operating vehicles
More than half of people who take medical cannabis for chronic pain say they’ve driven under the influence of cannabis…
Young Adults and Adverse Childhood Events: A Potent Measure of Cardiovascular Risk
While cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death, its determinants include unhealthy behaviors and clinical risk factors and are…
Aggressive prostate cancer and hereditary breast cancer
The study has potential implications for families with members suffering from these types of tumours who are at an increased…
Excessive body fat around the middle linked to smaller brain size, study finds
Carrying extra body fat, especially around the middle, may be linked to brain shrinkage, according to new research. For the…
A Curious Case of Transient Movement Disorder
This patient was a 57-year-old African-American man with past medical history of chronic kidney disease, insulin-dependent diabetes type 2, and…
Where Does the Blame for High Health Care Costs Go? An Empirical Analysis of Newspaper and Journal Articles Criticizing Health Care Costs
Public perception of whom to blame for health care costs varies. Whether there is a mismatch between the causes of…
Dogma of cancer metabolism theory overturned
Scientists have discovered that squamous cell skin cancers do not require increased glucose to power their development and growth, contrary…
Fighting another virus? Blame your parents
Genetics may play a bigger role in the body’s disease-fighting ability than scientists previously thought, according to the results from…
First smartphone app to detect opioid overdose and its precursors
Researchers have developed a cellphone app that uses sonar to monitor someone’s breathing rate and sense when an opioid overdose…