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As more of us live longer, can robots help us maintain healthier, more independent and dignified lives? The robots I’ve been studying are friendly, helpful machines that can talk, remind, monitor—and even offer a form of companionship for older people.

A few years ago, a student in my history of public health course asked why her mother couldn’t afford insulin without insurance, despite having a full-time job. I told her what I’ve come to believe: The U.S. health care system was deliberately built this way.

Semaglutide, widely used to treat diabetes and obesity, was associated with more than double the risk of developing neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) in older patients with diabetes, according to researchers at the University of Toronto.

Spending too much time on screens may cause emotional and behavioral problems in children—and those problems can lead to even more screen use, according to research published in the journal Psychological Bulletin and titled “Electronic screen use and children’s socio-emotional problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.”

What’s happening inside the brain of a passionate hockey fan during a big game? A new study from the University of Waterloo gives a closer look at how the brain functions when watching sports, with data showing how different a die-hard fan’s experience is from that of a casual viewer.

Your teen’s sleeping habits may affect how their brain functions, according to new research from the University of Georgia published in Brain and Behavior. And lack of quality sleep may put kids at risk of developing problem behaviors in the future.

Measles has been rising globally in recent years. There were an estimated 10.3 million cases worldwide in 2023, a 20% increase from 2022.

Summer hasn’t officially started, but already smoke from wildfires across the Prairie provinces has descended on us, sparking states of emergency and evoking memories of the 2023 wildfire season—the smokiest on record in Edmonton and Calgary.

One in every 10 kids in the United States has asthma, a chronic breathing condition that can affect nearly every part of their lives. Asthma is one of the main reasons kids miss school and a leading cause of childhood hospitalization.

For some, Osteoboost might initially evoke TV informercials for gadgets that promise to shock people’s abdominal muscles into six-pack formation while they sit, or mid-20th century contraptions that professed to jiggle away fat without exercise.