Escaping Fear: New Treatment Avenues for Assisting Recovery From PTSD
And then I heard him say to the nurse, ‘Scalpel please.’” Donna Penner recounts her experience on CBC’s White Coat, Black Art of when her anaesthetic wore off and she...
Interspecific Chimeras – the Next Frontier in Regenerative Medicine?
In 2011, Dr. Anthony Atala of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine stepped onto the stage at the TED conference and delivered his talk on the promising future of...
Nanotechnology: The Future is Now
In 1956, Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture at the California Institute of Technology hypothesizing on our ability to engineer and manipulate material at the atomic scale....
The Future of Cancer Detection
On average, only 45 percent of Canadians regularly go to the doctor for complete physicals or checkups. In between these checkups, most of us only seek medical attention if we...
The Future of Bacterial Cancer Therapy
The field of cancer therapy is rapidly evolving. From nanoparticles designed to carry drugs into the heart of tumours to immune cells engineered with chimeric antigen receptors, novel advancements are...
Man and Machine: Working Hand in Hand
Artificial limbs strong enough to crush human bone. Wireless neural implants. Robotic “sleeves” that keep the heart pumping. And synthetic skin that can “feel”. Sound like ideas from a sci-fi...
NASA’s Twins Study : What are the Long Term Effects of Spaceflight on the Human Body?
Since the first spaceflight in 1961, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has sought to increase mankind’s knowledge of space exploration. Critical to these efforts has been...
The Great Divide
In 1893, the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London reported that in addition to seeing an increase in the annual number of deaths ascribed to cancer, it appeared that...
Beyond PSA: Recent Advances in Prostate Cancer
Prostate specific antigen (PSA) is currently the most commonly used serum biomarker for prostate cancer screening; however, many experts agree that screening for PSA alone is not sufficient for early...
The Decline of Theranos
Elizabeth Holmes, the latest Silicon Valley visionary to adopt the black turtleneck uniform of business tycoon Steve Jobs, takes the TEDMED stage on November 7, 2014. Her vision is to...