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Couples pondering divorce often don’t seek professional counselling, showing a need for different ways of reaching them, University of Alberta research suggests. A survey of 745 troubled couples who were thinking about divorce showed that…

When it comes to laws protecting pets and livestock, Canada receives a failing grade.In 2020, an international organization called World Animal Protection gave the country a D, placing it among a group that includes Tanzania, Peru and the…

A new University of Alberta project is, for the first time, harnessing information from thousands of soil samples into one big database to get an idea of how healthy the province’s agricultural soils are.The two-year initiative brings…

Pharmacists could reduce barriers for people seeking sexual and reproductive health-care services, new University of Alberta research shows.Many pharmacists already offer some support for sexual and reproductive health, including…

Agricultural scientists in Western Canada are teaming up to give wheat a boost of built-in resistance to a destructive pest.“Wheat midge is the number one insect pest threatening wheat crops across Western Canada,” says James Harynuk, a…

Tenecteplase (TNK), a common clot-busting drug used in people suffering from a heart attack, is a safe and effective treatment for those in the midst of acute ischemic stroke, reports a University of Alberta research team involved in the…

Survivors of forced sterilization and coerced contraception from Canada, Peru and Indonesia will gather with academic researchers at a summit in Edmonton this summer to share stories, heal through art and ceremony, and set an agenda for…

New research shows a group of enzymes may have a critical role in the process of how immune cells are activated and then migrate to certain sites in the body — findings that could improve our understanding of inflammation and potentially…

The COVID-19 pandemic forced a lot of organizations to rethink how they were serving their communities — for some, those pivots took them exactly where they needed to go. That was certainly the case with a new partnership between the…

A sweeping project co-led by University of Alberta researchers will provide the most comprehensive mapping ever of how much carbon is being stored in perennial grasslands across Saskatchewan.The resulting data from the $3.2-million…