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Articles Written by: CAROLYN ABRAHAM
The screaming erupted last Wednesday afternoon, just down the street from Parliament Hill, in the offices of a Conservative cabinet minister.
Two officials with Canadian Association of University Teachers sat on one side of a boardroom table and on the ...
From CAROLYN ABRAHAM,
Globe and Mail,
2 Mar 2009
An eight-year effort by Canadian scientists has connected a crucial brain protein with the power to learn, raising the possibility that learning disabilities could be corrected with a drug.
A Toronto research team discovered that this single protein, ...
From CAROLYN ABRAHAM,
Globe and Mail,
24 Feb 2009
Learning about the genetic health of an unborn child could soon be as simple as giving blood.
A new prenatal test is slated to hit the market this summer that requires nothing more than a sample of a pregnant woman's blood for doctors to analyze the ...
From CAROLYN ABRAHAM,
Globe and Mail,
6 Feb 2009
The only agency that regularly finances large-scale science in Canada was shut out of Tuesday's federal budget, putting at risk thousands of jobs and some of the most promising medical research, and forcing the country to pull out of key international ...
From CAROLYN ABRAHAM,
Globe and Mail,
29 Jan 2009
Scientists across America are celebrating the passing of the Bush administration as the end of a dark age, a bleak stretch in which research budgets shrank and everything – stem cells, sex education, climate change, and the very origins of the Grand ...
From CAROLYN ABRAHAM AND ELIZABETH CHURCH,
Globe and Mail,
24 Jan 2009
Noel Thomas Patton was 50 when he decided that he would not go gently into that good night. He was born in December, 1945, on the eve of the baby boom, and sees it as his birthright not to follow in the orthopedic footsteps of his father's generation ...
From CAROLYN ABRAHAM,
Globe and Mail,
9 Jan 2009
Time is one of the biggest hurdles doctors face in making use of the precious few organs available for transplant - the frantic rush of ferrying a heart, lung, or liver, say, from deceased donor to recipient.
But a team of Toronto surgeons has become a ...
From CAROLYN ABRAHAM,
Globe and Mail,
19 Dec 2008
The biology behind the raging-hormone rite of passage known as puberty has long been a mystery. Just as the pimply, mood-swinging teen puzzles parents, the process that sets the teenager off has also stumped scientists.
But researchers from Turkey and ...
From CAROLYN ABRAHAM,
Globe and Mail,
12 Dec 2008
From down below, the natives of Gods Lake Narrows in Northern Manitoba saw it as a “fireball” erupting in the inky night sky.
But it was instead a medical plane in the midst of a mid-air fire Saturday night, carrying a mother and her sick baby, and ...
From CAROLYN ABRAHAM AND NORVAL SCOTT,
Globe and Mail,
23 Nov 2008
People often ask Wellspring Academy founder Ryan Craig if he used to be a fat kid. He wasn't. Nor does he have an overweight child or parents.
Still, Mr. Craig, a very mild-mannered Canadian and Yale law graduate, has all the same devoted himself to ...
From CAROLYN ABRAHAM,
Globe and Mail,
12 Sep 2008
