In the latest entry of our "January Walk This Way" series, NXNW's Margaret Gallagher toured the SFU Locomotion Lab, where Principal Investigator Professoer Max Donelan studies with way humans and non-human animals move.
Simon Fraser University researchers are learning more about how the scenarios for head impacts in hockey—from player clashes to contact with the boards or glass—affect impact severity. Their findings, reported in the journal Scientific Reports, should help to inform improvements in injury prevention.
Feeling faint after your booster shot? A team of SFU researchers found that needle pain may increase the conditions that lead some people to faint. In a recent paper published in the journal Clinical Autonomic Research, the researchers suggest those with a fear of needles or history of fainting could benefit from topical anesthetics to help reduce the pain.
Scientists at Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research (LIMR) near Philadelphia have found that a drug discovered at SFU and patented several years ago may have potential lifesaving results in the treatment of conditions leading to sudden cardiac death.
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