Cancer and exercise during a pandemic

What options do cancer survivors have during a pandemic when there are limited in-person training options and reduced access to exercise facilities? With National Cancer Survivors Day on June 6, Marina Mourtzakis, a Kinesiology professor who leads Waterloo’s Center for Community, Clinical and Applied Research Excellence, examines how to exercise safely as a cancer survivor …

New antibody therapy may reverse diabetic retinopathy and other eye conditions

The life-saving diabetic medication insulin, developed at the University of Toronto 100 years ago, was the first biologic therapy—a protein to treat disease. A century later, a new biologic therapy also developed by researchers at U of T has potential to reverse a common complication of diabetes.