A team of four students from the University of Waterloo are off to the final round of the national case competition of the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES) on May 14 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Discovery Days are unique day-long events that put hundreds of Canadian high school students from rural and urban communities across the country into universities that specialize in health sciences.
Congratulations to Associate Professor and Cancer Care Ontario Research Chair Scott Leatherdale for being chosen by The Record as one of the Region's 40 Under 40 unheralded leaders.
The University of Waterloo is about to embark on what they are calling an extensive study to discover the health effects, if any, of wind turbines on residents living nearby... all in our own backyard.
The Propel Centre for Population Health Impact at the University of Waterloo has released Tobacco Use in Canada, Patterns and Trends: 2012 Edition, which provides a high-level overview of tobacco trends in Canada.
An ambitious partnership involving the Ontario government, postsecondary sector and Schlegel Villages will develop a centre of excellence for research, training and innovation in senior health care and wellness at the University of Waterloo.
A new national study on licensing policies for older drivers co-led by Waterloo professor Anita Myers found that Canada is a regulatory patchwork of requirements for license renewal, reporting practices, and appeals processes.
Waterloo professor David Hammond says “existing research suggests that more and more of our calorie consumption is coming from food eaten outside the home and the nutritional quality of these foods is typically low: higher in fat, salt and calories.
Research by Waterloo professor David Hammond shows many smokers believe that some cigarettes are less harmful based on packaging and appearance.
For his ongoing research on cigarette labelling and how it can be used to influence behaviour, David Hammond of the University of Waterloo has been awarded Canada’s Premier Young research award.