Half of pregnant women who had a simple blood test to check their iron stores had low iron levels, and one in four had severe iron deficiency, according to a paper...Harm Reduction
People living with chronic pain should be offered a trial of non-inhaled medical cannabis or cannabinoids if standard care is not sufficient, according to an...Harm Reduction
Half of adults aged 20-39 with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have had a substance use disorder in their lifetime, according to University of Toronto...
August 5th, 2021Use of GPS to monitor subtle shifts in on-road behaviour can accurately distinguish cognitively normal older drivers with preclinical Alzheimer’s disease from those...
June 9th, 2021The impact of deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) for radiation cancer therapy in a real-world clinical setting has been tested by Canadian researchers in a unique...
A study has found that the risk of death from COVID-19 was 3.5 times higher than from influenza. "We can now say definitively that COVID-19 is much more severe than...
February 3rd, 2021No cardiovascular or mortality effects were seen with multivitamins, vitamin D, calcium, or vitamin C in a meta-analysis incorporating 156 randomised controlled trials...
January 13th, 2021Statins may protect women's hearts from damage caused during chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer, according to a cohort study.
"Two types of cancer...
Central fatness (excess fat stored around the abdomen) is associated with a higher risk of early death from any cause, regardless of overall body fat, whereas larger...Coronavirus
Corticosteroids reduce the risk of death among critically ill COVID-19 patients by 20%, an analysis of seven trials has found. The results of three of the trials...
