By: Meital Yerushalmi
The deadly truth behind alternative cancer therapies, featured in our last issue, raises the danger in resorting to unsubstantiated alternative therapies as means of curing one’s cancer.
Though many such anecdotal “cures” exist online that may lure …
By Mirkamal Tolend and Samia Tasmim
Clinical trials aim to elucidate the viability of new treatments or interventions on humans, and are indispensable to the progress of medical science. Although double-blind, randomized, controlled trials are the pinnacle of clinical trials, …
By: Meital Yerushalmi and Chantel Kowalchuk
A recent article in the Spring issue of the IMS Magazine highlighted concerns surrounding cannabis legalization with respect to its impact on driving while high, as well as on the challenges associated with the …
By: Meital Yerushalmi
The Addendum Guidelines for the Prevention of Peanut Allergy in the United States, published in January 2017, have illustrated that our understanding of peanut allergy (PA) has come a long way.1 Endorsed by the American …
By: Beatrice Ballarin
Caring for a growing world means caring for women and their children, says the Financial Times.1 Preventing maternal death is about more than access to drugs, and tools. Education is necessary too. According to the World …
By: Amol Rao
MSc candidate in Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Applied Sciences and Engineering, University of Toronto
The IMS Magazine recently conducted a Graduate Student Sleep Survey as part of a feature on sleep. The results, …
By: Antigona Ulndreaj and Meital Yerushalmi
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”1 This quote by Marcel Proust resonated in my mind while reading the article “Immune Privilege Within the …
By: Yekta Dowlati
As we followed the dramatic news of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a few months ago and the hysteric fascination of the media with the few cases of Ebola that trickled into Western Europe and North …
By: Alexandra Grand
On January 15th, 2014, at the Toronto General Hospital (TGH), I donated 60% of my liver to my father. Never did I imagine that at 25, I would undergo rigorous evaluation to become his living …
Putting Nutrition in the Gutter (Literally)
The last IMS Magazine issue highlighted research on the metabolic mechanisms and treatment of diabetes. However, a discussion about Type 2 diabetes is not complete without consideration for lifestyle and diet. While physicians often recommend dietary changes as part of