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Pharmaceutical company marketing negatively influences prescribing
Doctors’ prescribing habits are heavily influenced by payments, gifts, and free meals from pharmaceutical companies, leading to more expensive, less appropriate and more drugs being prescribed, a new
October 8, 2026 | 8:30 pm
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Visual illusion reveals what today’s AI vision is missing – York University study
Our eyes do not always tell us exactly where things are – and that may be a feature of how biological vision works, rather than simply a flaw. A new study by York University researchers uses a common
October 2, 2026 | 11:09 am
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York U receives nearly $10 million from Wellcome to continue the fight against antimicrobial resistance
In a global health environment where funding is increasingly tight, York University based Global Strategy Lab (GSL) is launching a four-year strategic plan for its initiative, the AMR Policy Accelerat
September 24, 2026 | 2:47 pm
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Meet me at the STAIRS: York U brings sundial back to campus
Cast in bronze, highly accurate, eight-foot sundial gifted by 101-year-old former chemistry prof.
September 18, 2026 | 5:33 pm
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School attendance is a relationship issue, Faculty of Education interim dean says
While there is a lot of focus right now in Ontario on attendance rules, testing and scores, York University Faculty of Education Interim Dean and Professor Sarah Barrett says that none of this will wo
September 11, 2026 | 8:51 am