Researchers have discovered that frailty is a key risk factor for dementia. A study by Halifax's Dalhousie University and Chicago's Rush University found frailty aggravates the effects of plaques and tangles—the jumbled strands of proteins that accumulates in some brains.
A survey of 150 Montreal pharmacies conducted last month by the McGill Office for Science and Society found that two-thirds of them stocked the homeopathic pill
One recent study revealed no evidence that selenium supplements help prevent diabetes, even in geographical areas where there are relatively low amounts of selenium in the natural diet
