Twitter can be used to track spread of infectious diseases

The spread of the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted the importance of having effective global surveillance systems in place for infectious animal diseases. University of Guelph researchers have discovered Twitter can help detect the spread of disease outbreaks. In what may be the first study to demonstrate Twitter’s use as an early warning system for tracking

Why do heart failure patients suffer depression, impaired thinking?

A new study by University of Guelph researchers explains why heart failure patients often have trouble with thinking and depression. “Neurosurgeons always look in the brain; cardiologists always look in the heart. This new study looked at both,” says Tami Martino, a professor in U of G’s Department of Biomedical Sciences and director of the Centre for