Research

Early-stage drug trials often launched without solid evidence of clinical promise, researchers say Standards for authorizing first-time trials of drugs in humans are...

A large-scale, population based study led by Dr. Laurent Azoulay, Senior Investigator with the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, has...

Later start times could help Canadian teens’ grades and health, research indicates Delaying school start times could help Canadian teenagers sleep better –...

Discovery offers hope to combat deadliest form of breast cancer Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive type of breast cancer,...

Researchers at the RI-MUHC have made a discovery that could improve care for about 15% of patients with head and neck cancer linked...

Drug shown to reduce new attacks/symptom progression in some patients SOURCE: The Neuro In separate clinical trials, a drug called ocrelizumab has been...

SOURCE: The Neuro Using fMRI data, researchers found that while listening to music, specific musical anhedonics presented a reduction in the activity of...

Though it has been shown that men who get melanoma are twice as likely to die from the disease as women, the biological...

Participants sought for clinical study Despite the well-established risks of smoking, it continues to contribute to the death of more than 37,000 Canadians...

Breakthrough has potential to help diagnose deadly disease at earlier stage Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths. Due to its...

For hospitalized children, the rate of surviving to discharge was lower for those who had cardiac arrest with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) at night...

Epileptic encephalopathy linked to protein trafficking gene By Shawn Hayward, The Neuro Researchers have linked a debilitating neurological disease in children to mutations...