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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 AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ 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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Alyson Kelvin and Jason Kindrachuk
Friday, January 31, 2020
Social media has allowed researchers around the world to collaborate and coordinate their efforts to fight the outbreak and contain its spread, writes AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ professor Dr. Alyson Kelvin.
Michele Charlton
Monday, January 27, 2020
AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ is home to four of the newest recipients of funding from the Government of Canada for their innovative health research.
Trudi Smith, with files from Olga Koubrak
Thursday, January 16, 2020
In December, the Canadian-Japanese Scholarly Exchange on the Law of the Sea brought together experts from both countries for the first time to exchange views on international ocean governance.
Ken Conrad
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Dal's annual contest of brains and brevity is set to take place this March, with all grad students encouraged to compete. Meet some of last year's finalists and learn how to register.
Melanie Jollymore
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
A team that unites practitioners, researchers and patients have come together to examine how opioids are prescribed in family practice in Nova Scotia, with the goal of ensuring patients with chronic, severe non-cancer pain to receive the optimal treatment.