Call for Entries Now Underway for 2012 N…
July 29, 2011 by The American Academy of Neurology
We Need Your Story! Win up to $1,000 and a Trip to New Orleans The American Academy of Neurology Foundation is calling on all neurology patients and caregivers to submit a short video to its 2012 Neuro...
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Why Women should be Nurses and not Doct…
December 16, 2011 by Professor Anne Crowther, Centre for the History of Medicine, Glasgow University
The story of women's role in medicine in 19th-century Britain has been dominated by two iconic figures Sophia Jex-Blake (1840 - 1912) and Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) They died within a couple of years of one...
Read moreDr. Charlotte W. Ross, Manitoba’s Pionee…
December 24, 2011 by Helen Pollitt Smith
The life of Dr. Charlotte Ross, Manitoba's first woman doctor who lived and practised in Whitemouth from 1881 to 1910 The dog team was abruptly halted before the log cabin over which the smoke hung low in the...
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Learning How Gut Bacteria Influence Heal…
September 29, 2011 by New York University School of Medicine
Scientists have deciphered the genome of a bacterium implicated as a key player in regulating the immune system of mice The genomic analysis provides the first glimpse of its unusually sparse genetic blueprint and offers hints about...
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Scientists Discover How the Brain Ages
September 12, 2012 by Newcastle University
Researchers at Newcastle University have revealed the mechanism by which neurons, the nerve cells in the brain and other parts of the body, age. The research, published today in Aging Cell, opens up new avenues of understanding...
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Offspring of childhood cancer survivors …
December 16, 2011 by Dagny Stuart
A large, retrospective study of the children of childhood cancer survivors who were treated with radiation therapy and/or some forms of chemotherapy found that the offspring do not have an increased risk for birth defects compared...
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