For millennia, humans have used natural materials—such as plants, animals and minerals—to imbue fabrics with vibrant colors. But synthetic dyes, first developed in the mid-19th century, have since displaced this age-old ...
Feb 12, 2024
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The measures world governments enacted at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 remain a source of controversy for policy experts, researchers, and media commentators. Some research maintains that they did little ...
Jan 16, 2024
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Researchers at the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre (MBMC) say people with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, or chronic lung ailments were disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 ...
Jan 9, 2024
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A new study carried out by researchers at Concordia's School of Health provides a new way of looking at the spine. Now published in Frontiers in Musculoskeletal Disorders, the research reveals the way one spinal muscle's ...
Dec 13, 2023
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The causes behind weight gain and obesity are complex, but many Canadians still hold negative attitudes and beliefs towards individuals who live with overweight and obesity.
Nov 22, 2023
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A new Concordia-led analysis concludes that the primary COVID-19 vaccines provided adequate protection against transmission, hospitalization and death. However, their effectiveness waned in subsequent months, and fell below ...
Apr 13, 2023
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Anxiety sensitivity—the fear of anxiety-related sensations—has a long and not very healthy relationship with alcohol use and abuse. People who display high levels of AS are more likely to drink heavily and use alcohol ...
Mar 21, 2023
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A simple vitamin could successfully treat a rare but potentially fatal genetic disease, according to research led by a Concordia undergraduate student.
Mar 7, 2023
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The image-based social media app Instagram has come under repeated and sustained attacks over the negative mental-health effects it has on its users, in particular young women and girls, over the past few years. The extent ...
Feb 14, 2023
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Concordia researchers studying body phenotypes—the observable characteristics like height, behavior, appearance and more measurables—found that regardless of the muscle they had, high levels of fat mass in an individual ...
Jan 25, 2023
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