Heatwaves could slow or reverse India’s progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) without heat impact assessments
Study shows better adoption and implementation of company supply chain policies for Brazilian beef and leather could significantly reduce carbon emissions
A new study analyzing medieval medical texts reveals that the perception of fertility decline with age differed significantly from modern understanding.
Researchers from McMaster University and Queen’s University have discovered a gut bacterial ‘super-producer’ of histamine that can cause pain flare-ups in some patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy for millions of patients and one of the greatest successes of modern medicine.
Tohid Didar and Jeff Weitz had a solution, but they also had a problem.
Researchers at McMaster University have found a class of well-known antiviral drugs could be part of a one-two punch to treat seasonal influenza and prevent a flu pandemic when used in combination with antibody therapies.
The increase in paramedic transport rates over the last decade far exceeds population growth and walk-in emergency department (ED) visits in Ontario, according to a new study from ICES and McMaster University.
Health-care researchers should avoid using the terms “race”, “ancestry” and “ethnicity” interchangeably in research reports and studies, McMaster Professor Sonia Anand says in her latest study.
A McMaster University-led study has found that the majority of people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus recover within 12 months, irrespective of its severity.
Patients can recover from orthopedic surgery just as well without using opioid-based painkillers, says a McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
An international team of scientists who analyzed centuries-old DNA from victims and survivors of the Black Death pandemic has identified key genetic differences that determined who lived and who died, and how those aspects of our immune systems have continued to evolve since that time.
Physicists at McMaster University have identified a natural delivery system that can safely carry potent antibiotics throughout the body to selectively attack and kill bacteria by using red blood cells as a vehicle.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate change (IPCC) has just released its latest major assessment report on global climate change, approved by the world’s governments.
A study published Wednesday in Nature used climate records dating back thousands of years to demonstrate that warming in the Arctic is associated with fewer storms and increased aridity in a huge swath of the Northern Hemisphere, including most of the continental United States.
As researchers work to understand how humans impact animals and their natural habitats, it’s critical that the data we use to make these assessments have ecological validity, says Sigal Balshine, a professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour.
According to a new study, global warming began in the Arctic and tropical oceans before thermometers were widespread enough to record the early signal.
Eczema, or atopic dermatitis, can be very stressful for babies and their parents. Assistant professor of medicine and allergy physician Derek Chu offers some tips to manage eczema in babies.
Researchers have developed a solar-powered technology that converts carbon dioxide and water into liquid fuels that can be added directly to a car’s engine as drop-in fuel.
Scientists have traced the family trees of two transmissible cancers that affect Tasmanian devils and have pinpointed mutations which may drive growth of deadly diseases.