Author Archives: Francisco Fernandez, MD

Researchers at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre have made new findings which provide a broader understanding of how dormant hematopoietic stem cells are activated and could pave the way towards therapeutic treatments for a number of cancers.  The team of researchers studied lysosomes, which are membrane-bound organelles found in all cells. They were once believed […]

Pain starts in receptor nerve cells found beneath the skin and in organs throughout the body. When you are sick, injured, or have other types of problems, these receptor cells send messages along nerve pathways to the spinal cord, which then carries the message to the brain. Pain medicine reduces or blocks these messages before […]

It’s long been believed that advancing age leads to broad declines in our mental abilities. Now new research offers surprisingly good news by countering this view.  The findings, published on August 19, 2021, in Nature Human Behaviour, show that 2 key brain functions, which allow us to attend to new information and to focus on […]

An international study, published in the journal of Science, has found that, after accounting for body size, energy expenditure peaks in infancy and then steadily declines until the age of about 20 years. Contrary to the popular belief that metabolism slows in middle age, the research suggests that energy expenditure does not change until close […]