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Congratulations to Professor Sherry Dupuis on being recognized as one of Patient Commando's 2014 Canadian Women Changing Healthcare. 

The honour acknowledges Dupuis' contributions to improving the quality of the lives of persons living with dementia and to ensuring that the voices of persons with dementia and their partners in care are actively included in research, education, and practice.

50 Shades of Grey has been credited with sparking a new era in women’s sexuality. For the first time women can claim — some without shame — that they read sexually explicit material and enjoy it.

Teens who use menthol cigarettes smoke more cigarettes - an average of 43 per week - than youth who use non-menthols, a new Waterloo study has found.

When it comes to protecting your bones, doing the right combination of exercises can make all the difference, says a Waterloo kinesiology professor who helped draft new recommendations for people with osteoporosis.

Waterloo researchers have used cell phones equipped with a GPS to prove there is a link between the geographical area a person covers in daily life and dementia in older adults.

Kinesiology student Matt Vonk and Bronwen Valtchanov of Recreation and Leisure Studies were selected as this year's winners in the 2014 Applied Health Sciences (AHS) 3MT competition. 

Faculty of Applied Health Sciences dean Susan Elliott has announced that she will not be seeking reappointment for a second term and has chosen to step down from the position effective July 1, 2014.

Marks, who has been awarded a 2014 Women’s Health Scholars Award from the Council of Ontario Universities, researches the ways estrogen affects the synthesis of different fats. 

Two teams from Waterloo's School of Public Health and Health Systems beat out 18 other teams from universities across Canada and the United States to finish in second and third place at the 2014 Canadian Evaluation Society’s Student Case Competition in Ottawa.