HEALTHCARE

Faculty Editor: Professor Jeffrey DaCosta Cancer treatment is a challenging balancing act; the therapeutics used are poisonous and require a dosage powerful enough to kill or stop the growth of cancer c...

Faculty Editor: Professor Jeffrey DaCosta An MIT research team holds plans for a potential drug capsule that could replace injection-based insulin treatment for those with type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabet...

Faculty Editor: Professor Heather Olins The latest epidemic in America isn’t a virus, you won’t catch it from a friend. However, your doctor might give it to you. This epidemic is opioid addiction. Almo...

A recent breakthrough at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) could provide the answer to killing the “unkillable”: drug resistant bacteria. Published on September 10, 2018 i...

A recent study, published September 5, 2017 by Jeremy Rich and colleagues at University of California announced a new potential treatment for brain cancer: Zika virus. Zika virus made headlines for its outbreak...

A promising approach to treating disease involves delivering therapeutic mRNA into the patient’s cells, and letting the cells take it from there, translating the mRNA into a protein. The mRNA delivered in this ...

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, which causes problems with memory, thinking, and behavior. It is a progressive disease that is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States (1)....

For several years now, there has been ongoing concern about the consequences of playing contact sports; in particular, the potential for injury to the brain. About 20% of teenagers in general report suffering a...