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Online voting is here, but are we ready? Research shows not even close
Aleksander Essex and his team investigated Ontario’s online voting practices and procedures for municipal elections and found numerous issues and irregularities.
Study examines social impact of #MeToo movement
The movement’s global influence has received limited and sparse research, a Western-led review has found.
Engineering student and alumnus place top two at Mayo Clinic competition
The winning ideas could enhance safety for paramedics in remote settings and improve the fit of prostheses.
Device to manage blood loss gets federal approval
Researchers have developed a device to keep blood flowing to the heart and the brain in fast, simple and safe way following traumatic injury.
Human rights law provides transparent, fair framework for vaccine allocations
Study recommends governments adopt an intersectional approach to understanding how vulnerabilities and disadvantages affect a person’s health.
Blueprint highlights gender-parity push in manufacturing
A study of five Ontario manufacturers show some companies are more successful at attracting and keeping women because they work at it.
Study pinpoints role of language disruptions in psychosis
Like a small airport trying to handle too much air traffic, parts of the brain not meant to process language are trying to perform this complex job in patients with psychosis.
Expert insights: The Lou Marsh Trophy builds on a racist legacy, tainting the award’s meaning
The sports journalist ‘spent his career energizing racist sports journalism.’
Walking patterns could predict type of cognitive decline
Researchers’ assessments of gait variability identified Alzheimer’s disease with 70-per-cent accuracy.
New research team to address sustainability in West Africa
Scholars from West Africa and Western University will study how to nurture sustainable livelihoods in Ghana, Benin, Liberia, Senegal and Nigeria.
Dialysis patients four times more likely to die from COVID-19 infection
Patients with chronic kidney disease are particularly vulnerable to contracting and dying from COVID-19, a Western-led study found.
Bats may hold the key to vaccines for future pandemics
Western researchers are joining forces with Royal Ontario Museum bat biologists to create a ‘vaccine bank’ that could be used in the next pandemic.
World Cancer Day: Using cancer cells to treat cancer
By using re-engineered cancer cells to deliver treatment to tumour sites, a team at Schulich Medicine & Dentistry is rethinking cell therapy
Expert Explainer: Coronavirus ‘variants of concern’
The coronavirus will keep mutating unless we can mitigate its spread.
Inconsistent instructions may cause too-shallow nasal swabs: study
There’s a wide variance of provincial recommendations on how deeply the swab should be inserted.
New process can extend lifetime of metals
Western materials engineer Hamid Abdolvand and his team discovered important factors into the deformation of metals used in automobiles and nuclear reactors, and developed new models to predict the lifetimes of these materials.
Alternate type of surgery may prevent knee replacement
An under-used knee operation could supplant more major surgery for people in early stages of osteoarthritis.
Medical software licence underlines WORLDiscoveries success
Ting-Yim Lee’s imaging software is an example of cutting-edge technology applied to improving health care.
Expert insights: Structural stigma against mental illness ‘baked into’ system
Mental health stigma exists at individual and structural levels – and that affects health care.