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...
A new prototype for wearable tremor suppression gloves has a team of Western University researchers believing real change is on the way for the more than 6 million people in the world afflicted by Parkinson's disease. Ana Luisa Trejos, an Electrical and Computer...
In a new study, researchers at Lawson Health Research Institute, Western University and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) have found that specialized programs for early psychosis can substantially reduce patient mortality. Published online today in...
Western University commends the Canadian government for delivering the largest investment ever in fundamental science research as part of the 2018 federal budget. In Equality + Growth: A Strong Middle Class, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill...
Emily Lalone is a rising star at Western University and the lifelong mobility expert will share her personal journey of academic excellence and her latest biomedicine and imaging discoveries as a keynote speaker at the Inspiring Young Women in STEM (IYWSTEM)...
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...
The longer a firefighter’s career, the greater the chances of suffering from persistent neck, back and limb pain, research co-authored at Western University shows. Fully 70 per cent of all active firefighters who participated in the recent year-long study experienced...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Schizophrenia is one of the world's most devastating mental disorders and affects more than 21 million people globally. A new study of identical twins shows for the first time that schizophrenia may be caused by not one distinct but an accumulation of gene mutations,...
