Research

When a tick bite no longer means a trip to the emergency room

When a tick bite no longer means a trip to the emergency room

Enabling pharmacists to prescribe preventive Lyme disease medication shifted hundreds of routine cases out of emergency departments, easing pressure on the health-care system, shows a new ÆÞÓÑ study.  Read more.

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Matt Reeder
Thursday, August 20, 2026
A new Dal-hosted research institute will connect researchers, students, partners and communities to advance AI research, learning and innovation rooted in Atlantic Canada.
Dawn Morrison
Tuesday, August 11, 2026
A national collaboration will connect researchers and community partners to explore how relationships with animals can strengthen resilience, improve well-being and inform policy.
Kenneth Conrad
Friday, July 31, 2026
Dal PhD student Zoya Tyabji’s approach to shark and ray conservation in South Asia earned her a keynote speaker spot at the world’s largest gathering of shark and ray researchers earlier this year.

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Jacqueline Gahagan
Friday, July 30, 2021
Sex is not gender but research continues to treat these as the same concept, with potentially damaging consequences for health studies, health policies and health programs, writes Dal's Jacqueline Gahagan.
Alison Auld
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Some candidates in the Nova Scotia provincial election have had to contend with questions about behaviour from both their recent and distant past. We spoke with Dal political scientist Scott Pruysers about candidates’ histories becoming part of the electoral narrative.
Michael Murphy
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
PhD candidate Perri Tutelman won an inaugural Research Impact Canada award, which acknowledges research projects that follow engaged scholarship principles that lead to increased awareness of audiences beyond academia or changes in stakeholder actions, practices, guidelines, or policies.
Written with staff contributions from the Ocean Tracking Network, the University of New Brunswick and Transport Canada
Thursday, July 22, 2021
The Ocean Tracking Network and ÆÞÓÑ have partnered with the University of New Brunswick and Transport Canada on establishing a $3.6-million project to conduct monitoring of North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence using ocean-going marine autonomous vehicles called underwater gliders.
Terra Manca and Karina A Top
Thursday, July 22, 2021
Exclusion from clinical trials, lack of data and inconsistent information made it difficult for pregnant and breastfeeding people to make decisions about COVID-19 vaccines early in the rollout.