Biology and Genetics Issues

Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) from use of medications

Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Factors and Public Health

Arthritis Risk Factors

Oral Blood Thinners and Thrombosis Risk

Risk of blood transfusion

Genes that cause breast cancer

Mad Cow Disease (BSE) - a fatal disease caused by a prion protein

Cervical cancer - second leading cause of cancer deaths in women

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in elk and deer - similar to Mad Cow Disease

Clostridium Difficile infection

Diabetes Risk Factors

Gluten Health Risk

HIV is a retrovirus that can lead to AIDS which severely weakens people’s immune systems

Influenza virus - seasonal outbreaks of flu and its health complications

Leukemia in Children

Prion diseases or TSE’s, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies affect the central nervous system

Global Re-Emergence of Tuberculosis

Type 2 Diabetes Among Canadian Aboriginal Populations

Variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob Disease (vCJD)– human form of Mad Cow