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Despite free health care, household income affects chronic disease control in kids
Even in Canada, the glycated hemoglobin levels of diabetic kids (type 1) are correlated with household income
05-04-2013
Researchers at the University of Montreal have found that the glycated hemoglobin levels of children with type 1 diabetes followed at its affiliated Sainte-Justine Mother and Child University Hospital (CHU Sainte-Justine) is correlated linearly and negatively with household income. Glycated ...
Sleepwalkers sometimes remember what they've done
15-03-2013
Three myths about sleepwalking – sleepwalkers have no memory of their actions, sleepwalkers' behaviour is without motivation, and sleepwalking has no daytime impact – are dispelled in a recent study led by Antonio Zadra of the University of Montreal and its affiliated Sacré-Coeur Hospital. ...
Children of divorced parents more likely to start smoking
15-03-2013
Both daughters and sons from divorced families are significantly more likely to initiate smoking in comparison to their peers from intact families, shows a new analysis of 19,000 Americans. This University of Toronto study, published online this month in the journal Public Health, shows that ...
Asterix's Roman foes -- Researchers have a better idea of how cancer cells move and grow
In a number of biological processes, including in the formation of metastases, cells communicate with each other in order to move as a group
13-03-2013
Researchers at the University of Montreal's Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) have discovered a new mechanism that allows some cells in our body to move together, in some ways like the tortoise formation used by Roman soldiers depicted in the Asterix series. Collective ...
Single gene might explain dramatic differences among people with schizophrenia
06-03-2013
Some of the dramatic differences seen among patients with schizophrenia may be explained by a single gene that regulates a group of other schizophrenia risk genes. These findings appear in a new imaging-genetics study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). The study revealed ...
CT angiography helps predict heart attack risk
20-02-2013
Coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) is an effective tool for determining the risk of heart attacks and other adverse cardiac events in patients with suspected coronary artery disease but no treatable risk factors, such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure, according to a new ...
New findings on morning sickness treatment
18-02-2013
Duchesnay Inc. announced results from a new study concluding that pre-emptive use of Diclectin(R) is effective in reducing symptoms of severe NVP in patients at high risk for recurrence of severe NVP. The study was conducted by Gideon Koren, M.D., and Caroline Maltepe, B.A., of The Motherisk ...
Pirate-like flies connect symbiosis to diversity
07-02-2013
After a year of studying up close the symbiotic relationship between a mosquito-sized bug and a fungus, a Simon Fraser University biologist has advanced the scientific understanding of biological diversity. Jeffrey Joy has discovered that symbiosis — a relationship between two or more ...
The United States, New Zealand & Mexico Issue Patent for New Allon Platform
07-12-2012
Allon Therapeutics Inc. announced that the United States, New Zealand and Mexican patent authorities have each issued composition of matter patents for a new family of peptides that the Company believes has the potential to be developed to treat neurological and neurodegenerative diseases. ...
Microbix Appoints New President and Chief Executive Officer
23-11-2012
Microbix Biosystems Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Vaughn Embro-Pantalony as President and Chief Executive Officer.Mr. Embro-Pantalony succeeds William J. Gastle who becomes Executive Chairman. Mr. Embro-Pantalony has been a member of the Microbix Board of Directors ...
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