Health & Medicine

The investment supports critical initiatives at the Mary Heersink School of Global Health and Social Medicine aimed at improving the health and well-being of children and youth, especially those from diverse and underserved communities.

Radosavljevic’s research and work as an advocate for gender equity in STEM has garnered global recognition.

Scientists from McMaster and the Hospital for Sick Children have uncovered a new way to slow the growth of aggressive glioblastoma, and identified an existing medication that could treat it.

Researchers found female family physicians spend 15 to 20 per cent more time per patient encounter than their male colleagues across a broad range of services.

McMaster researchers have figured out how a pathogen destroys its competitors while staying unaffected, offering a critical insight into the evolution of antibiotic resistance. 

The findings point to a potential new treatment for millions of people, addressing a critical gap where no approved drugs exist in Canada.

Postdoc’s painstaking sleuthing yields the Wright Lab’s third groundbreaking antimicrobial discovery in a year.

‘Aging doesn’t happen in silos.’ At the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging, researchers from all faculties work together to study the complex, interconnected factors affecting how we age.

2025 was not the year protein finally got its due. It was the year protein was oversold, overvalued and overhyped. The science of protein has not changed; we just need to listen to it again, writes expert Stuart Phillips.

Modest amounts of strength training, even with lighter weights, can meaningfully preserve muscle and maintain your ability to move with confidence, write Tom Janssen and Matthew Lees.

The findings raise urgent questions about health behaviours, access to care, and the broader social determinants of health that influence maternal and infant outcomes. 

Antimicrobial resistance is often seen as a clinical problem caused by antibiotic misuse, but it begins even earlier, in households, wastewater, rivers, lakes and soils, writes Milena Esser.