Health & Medicine

Twelve McMaster graduate students presented their research at the Societal Impact Pitch Competition, with the first-place prize going to Global Health master’s student, Tanya Chanthakumar.

Doctoral student Maha Khawaja's research looks beyond the individual and into the relationships and communities that shape well-being.  

This massive study is a first-of-its-kind look at ultra-processed foods and infertility in American women.

Tristan Bomberry on Indigenous health, the importance of bringing community perspectives into the research process, and work that's rooted in relationships.

'The best resistance training program is the one you’ll actually stick with.'

While monitoring typically focuses on complications during labour and delivery, researchers found 45 per cent of dangerous events take place outside the delivery room, during pregnancy or in the six weeks postpartum. 

Researcher Rachel Zhou examined thousands of Reddit conversations to understand how people made sense of the measles’ resurgence in 2025.

A single session of working out has been found to cause immediate increases in brain-protective molecules and improvment in mood across age groups.

The key is wraparound supports for overall health and well-being, such as addiction counselling, peer support, legal services, hygiene and reproductive health supplies and housing services. 

From tackling systemic barriers in health care to developing real-world solutions to everyday needs, here are some of the ways researchers at McMaster are driving change around the world.

A new study shows how gut bacteria influence how a person reacts to peanuts, a discovery that could help with predicting and potentially reducing life threatening anaphylaxis.

People with multiple sclerosis play the classic video game using muscle movement in a study focused on improving their balance.