From smoking to vaping: Why do we abuse our lungs?

Sep 22, 2019 13:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Todays growing toll of deaths and serious illnesses associated with vaping represents just the latest variation on an age-old theme: our propensity to willfully inhale substances that damage our lungs. Just as flavoring...

Your brain has 'landmarks' that drive neural traffic and help you make hard decisions

Sep 20, 2019 03:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

Brain regions exchange information by sending and receiving signals through a network of nerve connections. This exchange is crucial to all aspects of the brains functioning, including how we experience the world, form...

Researchers develop a promising new 'Trojan horse' treatment for multiple sclerosis

Sep 20, 2019 02:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Health

We often take our immune and nervous systems for granted. We assume that our immune system will protect us from diseases and when pathogens invade our body. Likewise, we assume that our nervous system will take information...

What neuroscientists are learning about our brains in space by launching themselves into zero gravity flight

Sep 17, 2019 17:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science Health

More than 500 people have travelled into space to date and, while we know a little about how life without gravity affects our physical health, we know almost nothing about how it affects our minds. So, my colleagues and...

Flavored e-cigarettes not only lure kids with sweet taste but lead them to dismiss danger, studies suggest

Sep 17, 2019 17:25 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Sept. 15, 2019 that he plans to pursue emergency regulations to quickly ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, making New York the second state to consider such a ban. Cuomos action...

There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable

Sep 17, 2019 17:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Strides in medicine have contributed to a dramatic increase in life expectancy over the last century. Diseases like HIV and cervical cancer that were essentially death sentences as recently as 30 years ago can now be...

Using technology to support caregivers of older people with dementia

Sep 17, 2019 17:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

In June, the government of Canada released its long-awaited Dementia Strategy for Canada: Together We Aspire. As a family caregiving researcher for more than two decades and a former family caregiver to my Dad, who had...