Health and Wellness

The Future of Food

About one in six people suffer from dysphagia, a...

Stopping Infectious Diseases

Ebola is one of the most virulent diseases on...

Improving Radiation Therapy

Nearly 45 per cent of Canadians will develop cancer...

Supporting Social Work in Somalia

For many Somalis, daily life in their homeland is...

Fast-Tracking Drug Therapies

Drug development is a complex, costly and time-consuming process. To ensure that pharmaceuticals are safe and effective, the interval between a laboratory breakthrough and a therapy that's ready for clinical trials can be a decade or more. That long wait is no comfort to patients who are suffering from debilitating or potentially deadly medical conditions.

Fighting Asthma and Lung Disease

About 10 per cent of Canadians suffer from asthma, the most common chronic disease among children and one of the leading causes of hospitalization....

The Natural Path to Happiness

It's now been three years since COVID-19 entered our collective consciousness. While the physical health implications of the pandemic received wide attention, the global...

Improving Doctor-Patient Communications

The human body is an incredibly complex machine. When it stops working properly, the doctors trained to fix it often need to discuss a...

Detecting Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Early

 Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are devastating neurodegenerative diseases, primarily seen in those over the age of 65 and cumulatively affecting nearly one million Canadians. Parkinson's...

Targeting Chronic Pain

One in four people around the world experience chronic pain, outnumbering everybody who suffers from diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined. The overall economic...

Improving Orthopedic Implants and Surgery

Hip and knee replacements are two of the most common surgical procedures in Canada, with nearly 140,000 operations a year that cost the health-care...