Current News

As one of the leading health research institutes in Canada, Lawson has many stories to tell.

Visit our Latest News page on our main website to find out about important medical breakthroughs, major announcements and research publications, new clinical trials, industry partnerships, commercialization developments and more. 

Recent top stories include:

• Probiotics could improve survival rates in honey bees exposed to pesticide
• Spinal cord stimulation treatment improves mobility in patients with Parkinson’s disease
• Lawson and Western researchers suggest walking and talking can be an early predictor of dementia

• Stroke prevention among older Ontarians may also reduce risk of some dementias

• Neurofeedback brain training may help reduce symptoms of psychiatric illness

• Half of all seniors who went to doctor for common cold prescribed unnecessary antibiotics

• Pregnant women who use marijuana almost three times more likely to have low birth weight infant

• London researchers enrol first Canadian patients in trial of tissue implant using patients’ own cartilage cells

• Genetic testing rates for ovarian cancer low across Ontario

• Can type 2 diabetes go into remission?