More than 90 long-term care homes in Ontario are suffering an outbreak of COVID-19.
Professor John Hirdes, an expert in geriatric care, explains why long-term care is a hotbed of COVID-19 and what governments can do to stop it from having an even more devastating effect on the country’s elderly population.
A new screening tool to identify older adults at risk of COVID-19 has been developed by a team led by the University of Waterloo.
Professor Zahid Butt answers common questions about face masks including who should be wearing them, and when.
The world has moved online, seemingly overnight. Are we using social media more, and what does that mean? Jim Wallace, an expert in how computing systems like our smartphones can address problems in public health, talks about social media during the pandemic.
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The impact of mental health conditions passed on from parents to their children varies depending on the child’s sex, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo.
How do we aspire to healthy aging? In an episode titled “Aging well, Suzuki-Style,” David Suzuki, host of the long-running CBC-TV show, The Nature of Things, sets out to ask questions from a scientific perspective, and joins researchers at the University of Waterloo and elsewhere for some analysis and explanation.
Sex differences in airway size are not innate, but likely develop because of hormonal changes around puberty, reports a new study.
A storyline with emotionally evocative details can reduce virtual reality cybersickness for some people, according to a new study.
Few cannabis consumers understand what the THC numbers on packages of cannabis edibles really mean, according to a new University of Waterloo study.