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Unbroken Dreams
After years of incremental progress, spinal cord repair is edging closer to reality
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Meditate Your Troubles Away
Mindfulness alters brain activity and improves mood, researchers find
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Toxins Could Reduce Fertility in Offspring
Pollutants found in cigarette smoke, fumes from wood stoves, can reduce fertility in female offspring
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A Fad Worth Revisiting
Salba may reduce the risk of heart disease in people with Type 2 diabetes
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Untangling Alzheimer’s
A U of T centre is hunting down the genes that cause this debilitating brain illness, and moving us closer to a cure
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Are You at Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s?
Genetic testing may provide an answer - but it's rarely decisive and can have unexpected consequences
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Cancer Killer
Implant infused with drugs can treat ovarian cancer, minus the chemo side effects
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The Problem of Pain
A pioneering Toronto clinic takes a new approach to a baffling medical problem
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HIV on the Rise in Ontario
U of T study finds rate of increase in HIV diagnoses highest among heterosexuals
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A Twist of Fate
Raymond Reilly was looking for a better way to diagnose breast cancer. Instead, he discovered a new way to treat it
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Pinpoint Delivery
Professor Christine Allen uses nanotechnology to ensure cancer-fighting drugs get where they need to go
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Rinse May Identify Risk of Gum Disease
New oral rinse developed by Professor Michael Glogauer at University of Toronto’s Faculty of Dentistry
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Placental Problems Linked to Heart Disease
U of T study led by Dr. Joel Ray of the department of medicine
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Lines of Defence
Embryonic stem cell lines will give scientists new potential for curing diseases
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Miracle at Sick Kids
Zimbabwean twins Tinashe and Tinotenda Mufuka were born conjoined. A marvel of international co-operation brought them apart
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Rehabilitation for Stroke Victims
Innovative treatment helps foster movement in arms and hands
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Tommy, Can You Hear Me?
Majority of concert-goers aware of risk of hearing damage, study finds
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Beating Kidney Disease
Endowed chairs in nephrology aim to improve lives of two million Canadians affected by kidney disease
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Workplace Smoking Bans Work
Smokers light up less often daily when they can't indulge at work
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What, Me Worry?
Anxiety affects a person's sense of life satisfaction less than depression, prof says
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Tobacco-Induced Lung Damage Now Women’s Issue
COPD outstripping breast cancer as cause of death of Canadian women
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The Chronic Struggle with Anorexia Nervosa
Patients have high risk of relapse up to two-years after treatment, study finds
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Preventing the Worst
Women who undergo preventive double mastectomies suffer low psychological distress
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Switching Off Addiction
Discovery refutes the view that addiction causes permanent change in the brain
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Mixing Therapies Can Hurt
Natural-health products and may cause adverse reactions with cancer treatments
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Courage Under Fire
They cared for the ill, calmed a fearful public and put their own lives at risk. Meet some of the U of T professors and alumni who battled SARS
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Smokers More Prone to TB
Researchers find that male smokers in India are four times more likely to contract TB
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Putting Mad Cow Out to Pasture
Faculty of Medicine researchers are testing a possible vaccine
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New Residence Promises Multiple Benefits
Building community: donors Russell and Katherine Morrison
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Your U of T Health & Fitness Guide
What's the truth about your health? Take it from the experts
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BRCA1 Gene and the Birth Control Pill
Oral contraceptives for five years or more may increase breast cancer risk
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New Solution for Blood Transfusions
Cell-free hemoglobin may be an option for patients otherwise opposed to transfusions
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A New Weapon in the War on HIV
New drug combination more potent and easier for patients to take
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Lean Times
In Toronto's expensive rental market, welfare doesn't cover cost of a nutritional diet, study finds
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Chew on This!
David Jenkins and Janet Polivy both explore the power of food. He probes its impact on the body, while she studies its connection to the mind
