Drug development is a complex, costly and time-consuming process. To ensure that pharmaceuticals are safe and effective, the interval between a laboratory breakthrough and a therapy that's ready for clinical trials can be a decade or more. That long wait is no comfort to patients who are suffering from debilitating or potentially deadly medical conditions.
It's now been three years since COVID-19 entered our collective consciousness. While the physical health implications of the pandemic received wide attention, the global...
Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are devastating neurodegenerative diseases, primarily seen in those over the age of 65 and cumulatively affecting nearly one million Canadians. Parkinson's...
One in four people around the world experience chronic pain, outnumbering everybody who suffers from diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined. The overall economic...