(Gretchen Reynolds/ The New York Times) – If you often exercise, there’s a good chance you also tend to be more creative, according to an interesting new study of the links between physical activity and imagination. It finds that active people come up with more and better ideas during tests of their inventiveness than people who  …

(Leah Hendry/ CBC Health News) — Christian Dupont isn’t used to staying still.

Normally, he’d be playing hockey twice a week and taking advantage of all the snow by skiing or snowshoeing with his family.

But last fall, what he thought was persistent, painful acid reflux turned out to be blocked arteries.

The  …

(Nicoletta Lanesse/ Live Science) — If a woman catches COVID-19 during pregnancy, can her baby pick up any immunity to the virus in the womb? Early data hint that the answer is yes, but many questions still remain.

In a new study, published Jan. 29 in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, scientists analyzed blood samples from  …

(Kirsten Fenn/ CBC Health News) — As health-care workers feel the exhaustion of the pandemic setting in, some doctors say medical organizations must do more to prevent burnout among front-line employees.

“During the early phases [of the pandemic], we actually had a little bit of a galvanization and a calling that  …

(CTV News) — The work of a Montreal researcher could lead to identifying which children have a genetic predisposition to cancer, allowing them to be closely monitored and, hopefully, lead to an early diagnosis of the disease.

There are believed to be more than 125 types of genetic predispositions to cancer in young people,  …

(Matthew Kupfer/ CBC News) — Clinics and other resources that help young people in Ottawa deal with mental health issues say they’ve noticed a significant spike in demand for their services since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold.

Kids Help Phone says calls and texts from young people in Ottawa have more than doubled  …

(Medical XPress) — A Quebec research team has discovered two early plasma markers to detect Alzheimer’s disease five years before its onset. The results of this recent study led by the doctoral student Mohamed Raâfet Ben Khedher and postdoctoral student Mohamed Haddad, directed by Professor Charles Ramassamy  …

(Nicoletta Lanese/ Live Science) — A personalized “cancer vaccine” may help keep a deadly form of skin cancer from growing for years, a small new study in humans suggests.

Unlike vaccines that prevent infections, such as measles and influenza, cancer vaccines are a form of immunotherapy that  …

(Toula Drimonis/ Cult MTL) — “We have been pushed to the breaking point,” says Natalie Stake-Doucet, president of the Quebec Nurses Association. “More than 2,000 nurses in Quebec have quit since the pandemic hit. Hospital administrations and the Ministry of Health need to look at the structural problems forcing them   …