E-cigarettes potentially as harmful as tobacco cigarettes, study shows

Nicotine-based e-cigarettes are potentially as harmful as unfiltered cigarettes when it comes to causing DNA damage,…

Ontarians still skeptical of flu shot

Half of all people who avoid the flu shot do so because they question its importance…

Risk, benefit or cost: What stops patients from receiving a diagnostic test?

Researchers sought to determine how much certain factors affect a patient's decision to have elective diagnostic…

Microbes give meerkat gangs their signature scents

Body odor. To some it's an embarrassing nuisance. But to meerkats, it's a calling card. Meerkats…

Underweight female runners more likely to get stress fractures

Female runners who are underweight have a higher risk for injury and take longer to heal,…

3D printing breakthrough heralds ‘new era’ for advanced skin models

A new method for 3D printing human skin has now been created, which both shortens the…

Is the finger-stick blood test necessary for type 2 diabetes treatment?

Blood glucose testing does not offer a significant advantage in blood sugar control or quality of…

Toxicants linked to lipid metabolism

New research on water fleas demonstrates how certain toxicants can affect development and progression to reproductive…

Potential mechanism for BCG vaccine reversal of type 1 diabetes

Interim results from a FDA-approved clinical trial testing the generic vaccine bacillus Calmette-Guérin to reverse advanced…

Transformer-like carbon nanostructure engineered

A research team has engineered a new type of carbon nanomaterials, capable of changing shapes and…