Health & Medicine

Michael Schutz, an Associate Professor of Music Cognition/Percussion has been awarded a $140,000 NSERC Discovery grant for research on how humans perceive natural and artificial sounds.

The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging is following more than 50,000 people between the ages of 45 and 85 looking for ways to prevent, slow or cure age-related diseases so we can live healthier for longer.

Matthew Woolhouse is working with Hamilton City Ballet's Dance for Parkinson's program to create a therapeutic exercise regimen that participants can do in the comfort of their own home.

A new study led by McMaster researcher Jessica Gish shows that seniors are embracing Advanced Vehicle Technologies like back-up cameras and blind spot monitors, but are using them selectively.

A $250,000 donation will allow McMaster researchers to test a new app designed to help stroke survivors and their care providers.

You, your friends, your parents, your kids - everybody's doing it.

Internet addiction among university-aged students may signal other mental health issues, says a new study from McMaster University.

A cross-national research consortia co-led by Andrew McArthur is receiving two of 16 federal grants to further develop a big data solution to the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance.

The story, "The Exercise Cure," includes interviews with Kinesiology's Martin Gibala as well as Health Sciences' Mark Tarnopolsky.

As missions to space become longer, the need for diagnosis and treatment of trauma and major illness in astronauts is becoming more acute.

It's a problem as old and as aggravating as eye drops themselves: as soon as the medicine goes in, almost all of it washes right back out again. Not anymore.

Researchers at McMaster University have found that gluten, a common protein in the Western diet which is not well digested by the gut enzymes, could be metabolized by bacteria.