Only a minority of medical studies take sex and gender into account when analyzing and reporting research results. Dr. Cara Tannenbaum demands more rigor from scientists.
A new study suggests that children exposed to secondhand smoke at home are more likely to be antiscocial, aggressive, have trouble at school and, in some cases, will eventually drop out.
A research team at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) has discovered that the ABHD6 enzyme in certain brain neurons plays a key role in controlling body weight.
A study sheds new understanding on the mechanisms of the diabetic retinopathy as it uncovered a program of accelerated aging of the neurons, blood vessels and immune cells of the retina.
A Canada-US study published in Cell has demonstrated that Americans of African descent have a stronger immune response to infection compared to Americans of European descent.
A new study shows that even low physical fitness is sufficient to produce a preventive effect on most of the risk factors that affect people with cardiovascular disease.
Discovery of a novel, advanced technique to identify the rare cells where human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) hides in patients taking antiretroviral therapy (ART).