TMU partnering with Kids Help Phone on research supporting youth mental health responders - Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU)

Google Health announces new partnership and deeper commitment to women’s health with Flo Health.

A new study suggests that even low levels of physical activity could protect the brain from Alzheimer’s disease – but not in the way scientists expected. The researchers tracked almost 300 older adults with early brain signs of Alzheimer’s for nine to 11 years using pedometers. They found that physical activity didn’t reduce the toxic amyloid plaques that most Alzheimer’s treatments now target.

Researchers at Georgia State University have identified two modified metabolite-derived compounds, MLY2 and MLY8, that outperform their precursor molecule in experimental models of ulcerative colitis. Researchers at Georgia State University have identified two experimental compounds that could provide a starting point for developing new treatments for ulcerative colitis, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that remains difficult to manage in some patients.

Occupational therapy that incorporates horses helps reduce the body's stress response in autistic children, according to new research from Colorado State University. "That power of the horse-human interaction for autistic children has often been referred to as 'magic,' but this study provides empirical data to support and explain how interacting with horses impacts autistic children physiologically," said Caiti Peters, an assistant professor in CSU's departments of Occupational Therapy and Animal Sciences. She leads research at the Temple Grandin Equine Center in Denver and Fort Collins and is a co-author on this study.