A newly published article in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine raises ethical questions and challenges for organ donation in cases where a patient has elected Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), also known as voluntary euthanasia. Written by Dr. Ian Ball...
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Western music professor available to comment on legacy of Aretha Franklin
Norma Coates, associate professor in Western University’s Don Wright Faculty of Music, is available today to discuss the legacy of singer Aretha Franklin, who died at the age of 76. “There can be no argument that Aretha Franklin was the great singer of the postwar...
COMMENTARY: Western planetary scientist available for comment on Mars water discovery
Gordon “Oz” Osinski, Director of Western University’s Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX), is available to comment on today’s historic announcement that a team of European scientists is claiming evidence of liquid water on Mars buried beneath a glacier...
Western political experts available to speak about provincial election
With the 42nd Ontario general election set for June 7th, the following political experts from Western University are available to speak with the media. Cameron Anderson Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Co-Director, Political Behaviour Research...
Paralympic expert available to media to comment on 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games
On the eve of the PyeongChang Paralympic Winter Games, Laura Misener, Acting Director of Western University's School of Kinesiology, is available to discuss the social impact of sports and major sporting events, disability sport, legacy of events, physical activity...
Major media coverage for International Centre for Olympic Studies
Michael Heine, Director of Western's International Centre for Olympic Studies, was an influential voice over the past few weeks as a nation celebrated Canada's success at the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. Serving as an academic expert for a number of...
This Valentine’s Day: Can the heart be mechanically replaced?
Western University Professor Shelley McKellar explores the history of artificial hearts in new book William Schroeder lived for 620 days after his diseased heart was removed from his chest and replaced with an artificial heart. In the first moments after he emerged...
Rate of earthquakes depends on volume of fluids in hydraulic fracturing operations – but the magnitude of the largest possible events does not
New findings published by the high impact journal Science show that the rate in which earthquakes are triggered or induced by fracking depends on the volume of the hydraulic fracturing operations. But the magnitude of the triggered events is not capped - contrary to a...
Bone and Joint expert finds physiotherapy moves Canada during cross-country investigation
Dave Walton, considered one of Canada’s foremost authorities on musculoskeletal trauma and rehabilitation, traveled more than 12,000 kilometres this past summer in an effort to better understand how physiotherapists were rehabilitating injured Canadians and amplifying...
Olympic expert available to media to comment on 2018 PyeongChang Winter Games
With the PyeongChang Olympic Winter Games just one week away, the director of Western University's International Centre for Olympic Studies (ICOS) is available to discuss socio-cultural issues such as politics, commercialism, doping, equity, and governance of the...
Western scientists believe bright fireball event near Grand Bend dropped meteorites
A network of cameras directed by Western University observed a bright fireball across southern Ontario at 7:23 p.m. on Wednesday, January 24. Analysis of the video data by Western scientists suggests that fragments of the meteor are likely to have made it to the...
The Donald Trump presidency – Analysis from Western University experts
Friday’s inauguration of US president-elect Donald Trump marks the start of a new American reality that will shape that nation's political, economic and social discourse. The official beginning of Republican governance, following the most talked-about election in the...