Vancouver residents and visitors set records for sustainable travel during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, more than doubling the number of trips typically taken by public transit, biking or walking, according to a University of British Columbia stud…
Putting tobacco out of sight in shops can change the attitude of young people to smoking, while not hitting retailers in the pocket, researchers at The University of Nottingham have discovered.
Academics from the University’s UK Centre for Tobacco…
Hospitals all over the world need to be aware of how to treat emergency blast injuries and military surgeons can provide valuable knowledge and advice to their civilian counterparts based on their experience of battlefield injuries. That is the driv…
TORONTO, Nov. 19, 2010–For every one person in Canada who is homeless, another 23 live in unsafe, crowded or unaffordable housing, meaning the country’s housing crisis is even worse than previously thought, according to Dr. Stephen Hwang of St. Mic…
Orangutans threatened with extinction could be brought back from the brink with help from a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) statistician.
Professor Kerrie Mengersen, from the School of Mathematical Sciences, is part of a study to guide e…
Shopping was the next most popular answer in the survey, carried out last month by researchers from Nottingham University Business School.
On a scale of zero to 10, Robin scored an average of 8.2 for visitors and 8.6 for locals in terms of the imp…
Emissions from consumption growth have exceeded carbon savings from efficiency improvements in the global supply chain of products consumed in the UK, according to new research by Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York and t…
Montreal — Researchers in Newfoundland have cracked the genetic code of a sudden death cardiac killer.
As a result, they have developed a unique prevention program in which people with no symptoms, but with a suspect gene and a family history, …
Montreal − Poor sleep patterns and lack of proper sleep could be threatening thousands of Canadian adolescents with premature heart disease and stroke, warns Heart and Stroke Foundation researcher Dr. Brian McCrindle, a pediatric cardiologist a…
Sleep disturbances increase the risk of work disability and may slow the return to work process. This is especially true in cases where work disability is due to mental disorders or musculoskeletal diseases. These results come from a recent study co…
For the first time researchers have found out what effect multiple, rather than just single, foods with anti-inflammatory effects have on healthy individuals.
The results of a diet study show that bad cholesterol was reduced by 33 per cent, blood…
TORONTO, Ont., October 13, 2010 — A new material similar to that used by the U.S. Military to treat traumatic injuries is showing promise as the next novel treatment for bleeding ulcers, a condition that commonly affects up to 15 per cent of a…