Category: Heads Up

Cancer busts its DNA | Cancer deaths rise | Wildfire emissions | Plastic-riding disease | Weekend COVID pileups | April 26, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Younger opioid deaths | Pot-poisoned pets | Key ecosystem feature at risk | Killer safety signage | Household COVID | April 19, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Endangered B.C. albatross | Busy moms breastfed less | Omicron vs Delta | Boreal creep | Fire-weather fingerprints | April 12, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Arctic plastic flood | Conversion efforts | Fishy fishing | Massive fossil | Spring COVID surge | Fracking & pregnancy | April 5, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Fire–flood forecast for BC | Super-spreading ticks | Earthworm invasion | Long COVID in healthcare workers | March 29, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Pandemic effects on strokes | Obesity birth risks | Tasty apples | Happy crabs | Long-lived parrots | Vampire diets | March 22, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

COVID surgery-delay costs | Immigrant pandemic fears | Unvaxxed effects on vaxxed | How we worsen flooding | March 15, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Preventing the next pandemic | Vaxxed dialysis patients win | Indigenous wildlife insights | Calming dogs (& music) | March 8, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Tire toxins & trout | Deer–human COVID spread | Gender pandemic effects | Banks & fossil fuels | IPCC report release | March 1, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

COVID-free offices | Sickness avoidance | Dog grief | Ancients lived local | Nurses’ mental health | February 22, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Universal donor lungs | North Pole fishery | Leaden eagles | COVID kids’ learning | Human influence on B.C. floods | February 15, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Ice Age influences on caribou | Dino cough | Cluttered brains | COVID vaxx effectiveness | Kids’ mask struggles | February 8, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

COVID surge not kids’ fault | Asteroid shares Earth’s orbit | February 1, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

COVID worse for disabled | Dope & drink & driving | Bully jays live longer | Floors share COVID secrets | January 25, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Housing health impacts | Whale-mouth plug | Kids’ vaccine | Anti-COVID gene | Vaccine mandate impacts | January 18, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.

Longterm care COVID | Permafrost thaw | Clothes-dryer microfibres | Star-nursery bubble | Latest news about Omicron | January 11, 2022 | SMCC Heads Up – Embargoed and recently published research with a Canadian focus, curated by SMCC for science journalists.