Research

A team that unites practitioners, researchers and patients have come together to examine how opioids are prescribed in family practice in Nova Scotia, with the goal of ensuring patients with chronic, severe non-cancer pain to receive the optimal treatment.

DNA testing kits will be a popular gift this holiday season. Before mailing off your saliva, it’s important to understand what these kits can and cannot tell us, writes Dal medical student Michael Mackley.

Canada’s new Elections Act may have prevented the type of mammoth election spending seen in the United States via super-PACs, but it's been at the expense of public debate, writes IDS prof John Cameron.

Global sea levels are rising more than twice as fast as they were even just a few decades ago — and accelerating. If emissions are left unchecked, the consequences could be devastating. In our first article in a continuing spotlight series, meet Dal researchers on the front lines of an approaching global crisis.

One year after the first CRISPR babies were announced, changes in policies and regulations have meant that there have been no new CRISPR announcements since, writes bioethicist Françoise Baylis.