{"id":488846,"date":"2026-02-21T01:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488846\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:10:11","slug":"brock-researchers-receive-federal-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488846\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Researchers Receive Federal Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__timestamp\">\n                    Friday, 20 February 2026 17:16\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-extra__author\">\n                        By Geoff Waterfield\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6998dd36751f2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Supplied by Brock University <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            $2.3-million to help 3 areas&#8230; lung disease, elder care, mental health\n        <\/p>\n<p>A major federal funding boost of $2.3-million for Brock University and its health researchers.<\/p>\n<p>There are three groups receiving help, one that works on treating age-related lung disease, another working with elder care, and the 3rd focuses on mental health.<\/p>\n<p>The school says help for lung disease is related to a new drug, that helps against cardiovascular disease, cancer, Type 2 diabetes, but there&#8217;s hope it&#8217;ll help with respiratory illness.<\/p>\n<p>Another group receiving help is about hospital discharge planning, the goal to reduce re-admissions among medically complex older people.<\/p>\n<p>And the 3rd group studies how the differences between men and women impacts mental health, and not just the daily stressors of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, 20 February 2026 17:16 By Geoff Waterfield Supplied by Brock University $2.3-million to help 3 areas&#8230; lung&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[196603,196601,196609,49,48,196606,196608,196602,84,67269,196607,14861,341,196599,196600,196604,196605,1893,11826,196598],"class_list":{"0":"post-488846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-105-1-the-river","9":"tag-105-1-ezyrock","10":"tag-710am","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-cjed","14":"tag-cjrn","15":"tag-dream-105-7","16":"tag-health","17":"tag-hits","18":"tag-local-media","19":"tag-local-radio","20":"tag-music","21":"tag-niagara","22":"tag-niagara-radio","23":"tag-niagaras-best-music","24":"tag-nigara-radio","25":"tag-radio","26":"tag-river","27":"tag-the-river"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}