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Social media use linked to poorer mental health in older Canadians, study finds

Posted on 29 June 2026

Seniors are considered the fastest-growing group on the Internet, but does being connected online help or hinder mental health for older adults? According to a new study published in the open access journal PLOS Global Public Health led by 91ÑÇÉ« Glendon College Associate Professor Hossam Ali-Hassan, while some Internet use such as email has been associated with mental health benefits, social media sites were linked to lower perceived mental health. 

91ÑÇÉ« experts have got you covered for Paris Olympics

Posted on 26 July 2024

While the Olympics are a show of international friendship and athletic excellence, they are also about politics and diplomacy, tourism, social change and spectacle, and sometimes even espionage. 91ÑÇÉ« experts are available to give comment to media on everything from nationalism in sport and why the economic pressures on athletes are getting even worse, to branding and tourism opportunities, the evolution of women’s basketball in Canada and how large sporting events intersect with sex tourism and displacement of low-income people, and more.  

Women with high-risk HPV and metabolic syndrome have almost three times risk for mortality, 91ÑÇÉ« researchers find

Posted on 8 March 2024

Using large-scale U.S. data following patients for more than a decade, 91ÑÇÉ« Faculty of Health researchers found that women with both metabolic syndrome and high-risk strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) are at a 2.6 times higher risk for mortality than women without either condition, suggesting a need to look at chronic disease comorbidity when it comes to HPV-related cancers.