Health & Medicine

Researcher and entrepreneur Stevie Foglia founded the startup Neuro-Mod, which offers augmented reality solutions for pain management, with the support of McMaster's Postdoc Entrepreneur Fellowship.

Examining how much animal and plant protein people typically consume, researchers found no increased risk of death associated with higher intake of animal protein.

The study highlights the inconsistent collection and reporting of racial data in health-care systems globally, a gap that limits the ability to identify high-risk groups for CVD, tailor prevention and treatment, and design policies that address the risk.

Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honours for individuals in the Canadian health sciences community.

Older adults who participated in the five-year study were able to maintain and even improve muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness.

The results of the study come at a time when Canada considers the future of a national pharmacare plan that would include universal free contraception.

A multi-institutional team of researchers have published research showing how AI was trained to understand the "language" of proteins and can design peptide drugs to target disease proteins - a game-changer for hard-to-treat diseases.

A research team at McMaster University has discovered a new drug class that could lead to breakthrough treatments for dangerous fungal infections. The discovery responds to a critical need for new antifungal medicines.

Findings from a new study, detailing this behaviour, fundamentally change conventional understandings of how some bacteria grow and multiply.

Campeau, a recipient of an Undergraduate Student Research Award, is spending the summer working in the Ancient DNA Centre. She's searching for Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, in ancient human teeth.

Roboticist and assistant professor Onaizah Onaizah is leading groundbreaking research in microrobotics: tiny, magnetically controlled devices that could one day revolutionize how we diagnose and treat disease.

The discovery opens new possibilities for slowing tumour growth and empowering the body's natural defences. Currently, fewer than one in five people with liver cancer survive longer than five years.