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Senator probes declining drug trials in Canada
Saturday, June 9th, 2012
Jun. 08 2012
There has been a significant drop in the number of trials conducted in Canada in recent years, as companies go elsewhere to test the effectiveness of new compounds in large-scale, expensive experiments… “It is a significant economic loss, but it is also a loss in support for medical research teams and a loss for patients… If drugs are not tested in clinical trials in Canada, it may take much longer for Canadians to benefit from new therapies.”
Tags: economy, globalization, Health, standard of living
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Research may show how poverty shapes the brain
Saturday, January 1st, 2011
Jan. 01, 2011
Studying “orchid children” could also provide new insight into how poverty shapes the brain. Preliminary evidence suggests poor children may be more likely to be highly sensitive to their environments, but scientists don’t yet know why this may be the case. A possible answer is epigenetics, or the way the environment – everything from stress to smoking – can affect the activity of genes… The result can be either an increase or decrease in the production of stress hormones or various neurotransmitters that play a key role in the brain.
Tags: disabilities, mental Health, poverty, youth
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How poverty shapes the brain
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
May 23, 2010
Over the past four decades, researchers have established how poverty shapes lives, that low socioeconomic status is associated with poor academic performance, poor mental and physical health and other negative outcomes. Dr. Swain is part of a new generation of neuroscientists investigating how poverty shapes the brain. …it will eventually lead to new teaching methods or early childhood interventions that would help children from low socioeconomic status (SES) families succeed at school and in life. “That would be the dream, to inform social policy,” said Dr. Swain, who is from Toronto.
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A marriage of brain and body
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
Feb. 16, 2010.
Their goal is to learn more about the genetic and environmental factors that shape our brains and our metabolisms and can lead to such problems as addiction, obesity and hypertension, also known as high blood pressure.
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