What’s a ‘black box’ warning? A pharmacologist explains how these labels protect patients

A “black box” warning on a health product sounds pretty scary – maybe even more so when it’s suddenly being taken off the packaging. Americans were reminded of this type

The deadly tapeworm spreading across America has reached the Pacific Northwest

A dangerous tapeworm that has been spreading across North America has now been detected in the Pacific Northwest, according to new research. Scientists found the parasite, known as Echinococcus multilocularis,

Body phenotypes say a lot, but not everything, about a person’s health

Concordia researchers studying body phenotypes — the observable characteristics like height, behaviour, appearance and more measurables — found that regardless of the muscle they had, high levels of fat mass