🚨 New publication alert!
Results from an international trial, published in @nejm.org, with @uhn.ca as a Canadian site, found that the drug finerenone reduces a key marker of kidney damage in adults with #Type1Diabetes & chronic #KidneyDisease.
🔗Read more: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
A drug-and-supplement combination targeting senescent cells has been shown to reduce inflammation and improve kidney function in preclinical models of diabetic kidney disease. doi.org/hbrj48
Join us at Max Bell Foundation presents The Walrus Talks #Wildfires for the opportunity to hear from leading experts on the research and solutions shaping Canada's response to the wildfire crisis. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-walrus-talks-wildfires-tickets-1982686099496?aff=Social
ICYMI: Anita Slominska was interviewed on The Current with Matt Galloway today!
Learn more about Other Endings: Organ Transplantation and the Burdens of Hope: buff.ly/IetYN11
Listen here: buff.ly/oEtThdI
@mattgalloway.bsky.social
In today's good news a single dose drug for sleeping sickness that could completely change the elimination game. Dare I hope for eradication!
Acoziborole administered as a single oral dose was ~95% effective across both early and late-stage disease in RCTs.
www.science.org/content/arti...
A new large-scale study provides strong long-term evidence that HPV vaccination effectively prevents invasive cervical cancer, particularly when administered at younger ages.
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Better taste, less waste - all thanks to a new #sourdough ingredient. #WesternU researcher Latifeh Ahmadi, in the Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, studied the use of acid whey - a Greek yogurt byproduct. Turns out, it also gives the bread a longer shelf life. 🍞
More Organs Now Obtained Via Donation After Circulatory Death — Study of national transplant data show dramatic growth over 25 years. www.medpagetoday.com/surgery/tran...
In the latest edition of our newsletter:
🌊 New project: Mobilizing Ocean Research for Canada
🔨 Beyond Whack-a-Mole: Jaigris Hodson on Tackling Canada’s Information ‘Syndemic’
📣 Federal call for CCA assessment proposals now open
📰 In the News
go.cca-reports.ca/4cWiddM
A new class of antibiotics disrupts a key protein recycling system in tuberculosis bacteria, offering a potential pathway for developing more effective treatments against drug-resistant TB. doi.org/hbqrgp
On the left: a photo of a pair of legs dangling off the side of a hospital bed, with a blue-tinged filter applied to the image. On the right: text that reads “My sister died waiting for a transplant. The system is set up for heartbreak. Why strategies to enlist donors fail to save lives.”
Signing a donor card doesn’t necessarily guarantee that you’ll save a life—only 1 to 2 percent of people who die in hospital ever qualify as donors. Post-doctoral fellow Anita Slominska exposes the gap between organ donation’s potential and its limits: https://ow.ly/eNne50Ymapz
Panel listing the key messages of a Review published in eClinicalMedicine entitled "Advancing child health through applied qualitative research". Copyright: 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Qualitative research provides unique insights into the nuanced experiences of children and young people that quantitative studies often miss.
In @eclinicalmed.bsky.social, authors discuss the importance of qualitative research in advancing child health outcomes: tinyurl.com/82hw7mxv
⚠️NEW EVENT! Join @e4dca.bsky.social for an expert panel discussion on how the rapid spread of misinformation has undermined public trust and affected sectors and communities across Canada, and what can be done to combat it.
🧵More info and rego link here: evidencefordemocracy.ca/webinar-the-...
A new study by @sophiewp.bsky.social, @helenvidgen.bsky.social & @daniellegallegos.bsky.social explores 8- to 12-year-old children’s food practices to investigate the intersections between individual, social and structural determinants of engagement with food and food behaviors.
Kidneys rely on intricate designs to filter our blood. A new study from @uhn.ca's Dr. Milica Radisic shows how recreating the complex 3D surface environment of kidney cells helps lab-grown cells develop and behave more like they do in the body.
🔗 Read more: www.uhnresearch.ca/news/making-...
An historic day as the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, or ITK announced that the main campus of the first Inuit led university, Inuit Nunangat University will be located in Arviat, Nunavut.
Five years after the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines started, it seems the mystery of why the Astra-Zeneca and J&J vaccines led to a rare but deadly side effect of unusual blood clots and bleeding has finally been solved.
It's a fascinating case of molecular mimicry that may help make vaccine safer.🧪
BlueSky finally adds drafts. techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/b...
I wonder what this means, if anything, for making threads.
A new spray-mist device delivers antibiotics directly into infected tissue, reducing the risk of side effects associated with traditional bloodstream administration. doi.org/hbnphz
#TemertyMed researchers have expanded our understanding of bacterial immunity with the discovery of a new protein that can both sense and counteract viral infections. bit.ly/4r1Lw34
She was at high risk of kidney disease but didn’t know it. What a Scarborough study reveals about immigrants’ vulnerability
If you are a person who works in social media, and your job requires you to manage an account on Twitter/X, please ask your boss, in writing, to verify that you are required as a responsibility of your position to be on a platform that knowingly creates and monetizes child sexual abuse material …
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Nutrition scientist: "To cite old studies and forget 50 years of research is cherry-picking." The seed oil backlash prioritizes viral narratives over evidence.
“Science-speak” has invaded the fashion, beauty, and food industries—even as actual science has come under considerable threat, @elcush.bsky.social argues. She explores the rise of faux-scientific jargon:
Canada has relied on U.S. science for decades - for health info, drug review, food safety, weather monitoring, and more.
As the US dismantles its science ecosystem @ntusikov.bsky.social argues Canada’s civil service cuts will put public heath at greater risk.
policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/12/trum...
The US withdrawal from #WHO became official today, leaving the world less prepared for dangerous disease outbreaks. “When that will bite us in the ass, it’s impossible to predict. But there is a 100% certainty that it will bite us in the ass,” one expert told me. www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/u...
Figure 3. Number of events prevented/caused per 1000 patients treated with SGLT2 inhibitor for 1 year by diabetes status and level of albuminuria. The graph shows Urine albumin to creatinine ratio <200 mg/g & >=200 mg/g with/without diabetes.
#SGLT2 inhibitors reduced kidney disease progression, hospitalizations, and mortality in #CKD, regardless of #diabetes status or albuminuria level, supporting broader use in clinical guidelines.
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⚡Our January issue is live! Including the first Nature Medicine Commission Report (introduced in our Editorial), new research on #infertility, #huntingtonsdisease, #cancer #cachexia, #HIV, #genetherapy, #microbiome therapy, News & Opinion and much more
https://www.nature.com/nm/volumes/32/issues/1
The state of citizen science in Canada. Person with binoculars around their neck and a notepad in hand.
📣 We’re excited to announce a new project on the state of citizen science in Canada. 🧪
go.cca-reports.ca/3LDiV4r
