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With proper care, vast majority of amputations due to diabetes can be avoided, say researchers
A treatment room in the emergency department at Peter Lougheed hospital is pictured in, Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. The Canadian Institute for Health Information says more than 7,000 people with diabetes have a leg, foot or toe amputation every year Ñ and the majority of them could have been prevented. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to U.S. scientists Ambros and Ruvkun for microRNA discovery
Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Assembly and the Nobel Committee, speaks as Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun are awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, which was announced during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm, Sweden, October 7, 2024. Christine Olsson/TT News Agency/via REUTERS
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He Jiankui, scientist known for gene-editing babies, is out of prison and ready to rejoin the science community
In this Oct. 10, 2018 photo, He Jiankui, left, and Zhou Xiaoqin work a computer at a laboratory in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province. Chinese scientist He claims he helped make world's first genetically edited babies: twin girls whose DNA he said he altered. He revealed it Monday, Nov. 26, in Hong Kong to one of the organizers of an international conference on gene editing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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WHO approves first mpox diagnostic test for emergency use
FILE PHOTO: An undated colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (pink) found within an infected cell (yellow), cultured in the laboratory, captured at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. NIAID/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT/File Photo
obituary
Virologist Philip Branton led the development of a national cancer research framework
Dr. Philip Branton MUST CREDIT: photos courtesy of the Canadian Cancer Research Alliance
first person
Years after she saved my life, I finally met my genetic twin
opinion
Canada has a chance to change the Alzheimer’s experience - let’s not squander it
Sharon Cohen
football
Ontario sports minister and former CFL player Neil Lumsden to donate brain to concussion research
Neil Lumsden, Ontario’s Minister of Sport, attends an announcement in Toronto on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
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Sick Kids spinout Radiant developing ‘supercharged’ antibody drugs to target HIV, complex cancers
Researcher Jean-Philippe Julien, co-founder of Radiant Biotherapeutics, is seen in a lab atSickKids Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning in Toronto, Thursday, September 12, 2024. Radiant Biotherapeutics has raised $35 million to develop super-antibody clusters in hopes of transforming therapies for patients facing complex diseases like HIV and cancer. (Galit Rodan/The Globe and Mail)
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Canadian researchers find signs of awareness in comatose patient, study says
A patient is examined during a scan at the University Hospital in Liege, Belgium, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Researchers in London, Ontario, say they have found a way to detect awareness in patients who are comatose with a brain injury and appear unresponsive. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Yves Logghe
food for thought
Anti-inflammatory diet lowers dementia risk, even among those already at increased risk, study finds
Leslie Beck
health and fitness
Why has WHO declared mpox a global health emergency? We answered your questions
The World Health Organization (WHO) logo is seen near its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, February 2, 2023.
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Morning Update: Menopause finally goes under the microscope
Kitchener, Ontario (July 24, 2024) - Maria Bott Martin is retired and helps take care of two children in her neighbourhood, Alice, 14 months and Henri, 3 years (not pictured), children of Aimee and Jesse McMillan. Martin and 5 other grandmas in the club offer assistance parents as spots in daycare are minimal. Alicia Wynter/Globe and Mail
food for thought
New research underscores the heart and kidney benefits of eating your fruits and veggies
Leslie Beck
opinion
Breast cancer’s tough choice: To remove, or not to remove, both breasts
Vasily Giannakeas, Steven Narod and David Lim
opinion
Everyone has early cancer (they just don’t know it yet)
Keith Stewart and Margaret Goodell
report on business
Pitching in: Cycling to raise money for research into Parkinson’s disease
Lloyd Taylor who has organized a national cycling event to raise money for research into Parkinson’s disease. Pitching in
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Africa CDC likely to declare mpox public health emergency next week
FILE PHOTO: Christian Musema, a laboratory nurse, takes a sample from a child declared a suspected case Mpox - an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus that spark-off a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and fever; at the the treatment centre in Munigi, following Mpox cases in Nyiragongo territory near Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo July 19, 2024. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi/File Photo
opinion
The world is making steady progress tackling HIV-AIDS – but challenges remain
André Picard
report on business
Pitching in: Relay running to fund research into the genetic causes of cardiac arrhythmia
Tyson Downs for Pitching In (submitted by Jesse Walker)
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