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Search for spare parts takes McMaster University archaeologists under water

Sixty years ago on May 3, 1944, a Royal Canadian Air Force's Harvard AJ538 crashed into the waters off Quebec Head, Wolfe Island, near Kingston. Now, members of the Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association (CHAA) are attempting to locate the yellow single-engine trainer, and they've enlisted the help of McMaster University researchers in their search. Along with preserving history, searchers have a more basic goal in mind: obtaining spare parts to keep the remaining old Harvards flying. Joe Boyce, an assistant professor and researcher of geography & geology at McMaster, is working with members of the CHAA Dive Recovery Team on the quest. Boyce is using a marine magnetometer to improve the odds of their search.

Global study shows nine factors identify majority of heart attack risk

A major Canadian-led global study has found that the vast majority of heart attacks may be predicted by nine easily measurable factors and that these factors are the same in virtually every region and ethnic group worldwide. The INTERHEART study looked at more than 29,000 people in 52 countries and from all inhabited continents of the world. The study was presented today at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) conference in Munich, Germany by Dr. Salim Yusuf, a professor of medicine at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster University and director of the Population Health Research Institute at McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, which coordinated the study.