SMCC Holiday Closure and Top Five Science Stories of 2013 | December 20, 2013 The Science Media Centre of Canada will be closed for the holidays from Monday, December 23, 2013 until Friday, January 3, 2014 inclusive. If there is a major breaking news story during these two weeks, we will send out news alerts […]
Tag: cancer
Cancer treatment costs on the rise
A new study of tens of thousands of Ontario cancer patients has shown that the average health care costs in the first year after diagnosis have risen by 50 per cent for lung and prostate cancers, doubled for breast and colorectal cancer and tripled for melanoma over the last ten years. Part of the explanation […]
Stem Cells at 50 | Webinar recording
Stem Cells at 50: The hope, the hype, and the reality – June 14, 2011 Fifty years ago, stem cells were discovered in Toronto by James Till and Ernest McCulloch. These cells have the unique property of being able to become any type of cell in the body – nerve, blood, skin, bone. Harnessing their […]
