Topic: The Lancet
Canadian researchers are sounding an alarm over the prescribing of antipsychotics — drugs once reserved for schizophrenia and mania — for the ...
The first published clinical trial of stem-cell therapy is a tremendous boon to the company leading the experiment-but it's only a small step ...
FOLLOWING the Chinese calendar, we enter the Year of the Dragon tomorrow. As any feng shui proponent will tell you, those born in this auspicious ...
A glimpse of hope was offered to blind people this week after U.S. clinical trials showed transplanted stem cells improved the sight of two ...
Editor's Choice Academic Journal A study published Online First in The Lancet has found that a common medication (dutasteride) used to treat...
Editor's Choice Academic Journal One of the leading causes of mortality and illness at mass gatherings (MGs), which also represent a major public...
A saliva test used to diagnose the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is comparable in accuracy to the traditional blood test, according to a new...
The first use of embryonic stem cells in humans eased a degenerative form of blindness in two volunteers and showed no signs of any adverse...
By Julio Montaner. . Drug addiction remains a major public-health problem. Unfortunately, policymakers have been slow to support public-health...
In 2003, Insite, the first experimental supervised injection site in North America, was installed in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (DTES), Canada's...
