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COVID-19 exposed the many ways in which we were ill-prepared to prevent and respond to pandemics. Are we applying those lessons to prevent a bird flu pandemic?
King Charles isn’t permitted to interfere in politics. Nonetheless, there are an array of signs that he’s throwing his support behind Canada amid Donald Trump’s annexation threats.
Scholars are working to piece together information about Indigenous children who attended a residential school in Brantford and Inuit patients taken to a sanatorium in Hamilton, Ontario.
Bioplastics can be made out of natural fibres such as bamboo, hemp, plants or algae.
A recent Canadian innovation that uses aluminum as a fuel could provide new opportunities for growth and diversification away from the U.S.
Beauty plays a role in shaping women’s opportunities in both the online and the real world, leading young women to rely on increasingly intensive and expensive practices and products.
Innovations in food packaging that integrate smart technologies can reduce food waste and help address food insecurity.
Le maintien de la masse musculaire est essentiel pour prolonger l’espérance de vie en bonne santé. L’exercice et une alimentation optimale sont des mesures préventives pour ce maintien.
Through self-development, or ‘Bildung’ in German thought, salon culture sought to resist absolutism and foster democratic discourse. This shaped the modern Western university.
According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, there’s life out there somewhere.
Donald Trump’s launch of his meme coin — coupled with low public understanding of crypto assets — could lead to financial losses from risky and speculative investments.
Resolving Black trauma must involve challenging the colonial and imperial legacies that reside within psychiatry and other mental health professions.
Pierre Poilievre’s recent 100-minute interview with controversial media commentator, Jordan Peterson, provided some clues about the Conservative leader’s political ideology.
Since launching online gambling, the Ontario government, which gains significant tax revenue from gambling, has announced no funding for independent research to monitor the impact on problem gambling.
La médecine personnalisée est prometteuse pour les cancers récurrents et les superbactéries, mais elle demande beaucoup de travail et d’argent. Les approbations réglementaires demeurent compliquées.
Canadians want policies that address their needs but instead are served political gimmicks. To reconnect public interest with public policy, we need to develop new democratic practices.
Early clinical trials suggest that people who lose weight with drugs like Ozempic lose lean mass as well as fat, which could have consequences for older adults at risk of muscle loss.
To identify threats to the health of mothers and children, birth cohort studies look at groups of moms and their babies from birth or even earlier and follow them for many years.
Clear guidelines for communicators’ use of generative AI, will help avoid an explosion of misleading information, the erosion of public trust and the misuse of personal data on an unprecedented scale.
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PhD Candidate, Political Science, McMaster University
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Professor of Occupational Therapy, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University
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Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University
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Professor, Faculty of Humanities, HOPE Chair in Peace & Health, McMaster University
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, McMaster University
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Sociology, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, McMaster University
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Royal Historian, McMaster University
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Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, McMaster University
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Professor of Biophysics, McMaster University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University
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Executive Director, Global Nexus and M.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University
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PhD Candidate, Political Science, McMaster University
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Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Nano-biomaterials, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University
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Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and Sociology, McMaster University
