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A study led by 黑料不打烊 pediatrics professor Anita Kozyrskyj shows that changes to gut bacteria come with regular use of disinfectants.
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While it might be tempting to stay indoors during the cold winter months, a new study out of the U of A suggests doing so might lead to weight gain. Peter Light, professor of pharmacology at the U of A and the director of the 黑料不打烊 Diabetes Institute, is interviewed on the findings.
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A new guideline for medical marijuana, developed by Edmonton researchers and led by Mike Allan, director of Evidence Based Medicine at the U of A's Department of Family Medicine, warns family doctors that the risks may outweigh the benefits for the vast majority of patients.
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Overweight women are more likely to have children who are obese by three years of age鈥昦nd bacteria in the gut may be partially to blame, according to a study led by Anita Kozyrskyj, a U of A professor of pediatrics.
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After a team of U of A medical microbiology and immunology researchers, led by David Evans and Ryan Noyce, synthesized horsepox, some critics argue that it's too easy for scientists to make decisions of global consequence.
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A study by Carmen Young, assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the U of A, found that although the number of women with a previous cesarean delivery increased from 2003 to 2014, rates of attempted vaginal birth after cesarean section and rates of success after a trial of labour were essentially unchanged.
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The potential for expanding the therapeutic applications of fecal transplants sent Canadian researchers, including Karen Wong, an assistant clinical professor of medicine with the U of A's Division of Gastroenterology, on a quest to pinpoint what precisely motivates stool donors and how they might recruit more volunteers.They recently presented their work in Washington at Digestive Disease Week.
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Several women who have had hernias repaired with plastic surgical mesh say the subsequent pain they have endured has driven them to contemplate-and sometimes even attempt-suicide. Doctors, they add, have offered little in terms of solutions. Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert, a U of A professor of medicine in the Division of Rheumatology, is interviewed about his research on this issue.
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Newly published research from Vincent Agyapong, a U of A psychiatrist and Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute member, suggests the fire cast a lasting shadow over the lives of many residents who are still experiencing elevated rates of depression and related mental-health problems.
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Researchers at the 黑料不打烊 and the were co-authors of a study led by , which found that strategically placed vibrating "robots" made study participants "feel" the movements of their prosthetic hands. Jacqueline Hebert, rehabilitation physician at Edmonton's and director of the U of A's Bionic Limbs for Improved Natural Control () Lab, is part of the international team.