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Released: 12-Mar-2018 2:45 PM EDT
Dr. Kevin Smith Appointed President & Chief Executive Officer of University Health Network
University Health Network (UHN)

Mr. Brian Porter, Chair of the Board of Trustees of University Health Network (UHN) today announced that Kevin Smith, DPhil. is UHN’s incoming President & CEO.

Released: 12-Mar-2018 2:45 PM EDT
Dr. Kevin Smith Appointed President & Chief Executive Officer of University Health Network
University Health Network (UHN)

Mr. Brian Porter, Chair of the Board of Trustees of University Health Network (UHN) today announced that Kevin Smith, DPhil. is UHN’s incoming President & CEO.

Released: 12-Mar-2018 9:05 AM EDT
Researchers Discover That a Blood Thinner Significantly Reduces the Risk of Death After Non-Cardiac Surgery
McMaster University

The study enrolled 1,754 patients in 19 countries, 51 percent of whom were male, with an average age of 70 years. After an average follow-up of 16 months, 11 percent of patients treated with dabigatran experienced a MINS-related event, compared with 15 percent of patients who received a placebo. This translates to a 28 percent reduction in risk for patients receiving dabigatran.

Released: 8-Mar-2018 7:05 AM EST
Improving Birth Outcomes One Amino Acid at a Time
University Health Network (UHN)

A simple dietary supplement (L-arginine) was found to improve birth outcomes, paving the way for future clinical trials to test this inexpensive and safe intervention.

Released: 7-Mar-2018 1:05 PM EST
Celebrate International Women’s Day with a Live Webcast From Perimeter Institute
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

On March 8, Perimeter Institute will host a live webcast featuring talks by women in a wide range of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers.

5-Mar-2018 12:05 PM EST
Staying Clean Keeps Seafish Smart
Universite de Montreal

"Vet" service provided by smaller fish is key to keeping coral reefs healthy, a Canadian study finds

Released: 6-Mar-2018 11:05 AM EST
Explore the “Weirdest” Stars in the Universe During Live Webcast
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Join astronomer Emily Levesque for a live webcast March 7 that will explore some of the most puzzling and bizarre objects being studied by astronomers today.

6-Mar-2018 11:05 AM EST
Study Shows That Environmental Exposures Such as Air Pollution Are More Determinant of Respiratory Health Than Inherited Genetics
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

Researchers have found strong evidence that environmental exposures, including air pollution, affect gene expressions associated with respiratory diseases much more than genetic ancestry. The study, published today in Nature Communications, analyzed more than 1.6 million data points from biological specimens, health questionnaires and environmental datasets, making this study one of the largest ever to examine the relationship between gene expression and environmental stimuli. These findings represent a groundbreaking use of big data to uncover the environmental factors that are behind diseases and inform strategies for prevention, an approach that would apply to a number of diseases, including cancer.

Released: 5-Mar-2018 2:40 PM EST
University Health Network Now Largest Adult Transplant Program in North America
University Health Network (UHN)

UHN now largest adult transplant program in North America. University Health Network’s Multi-Organ Transplant Program reached a milestone of completing 639 adult transplants in 2017, ranking first in volume for adult transplants in North America.

Released: 5-Mar-2018 12:05 PM EST
Researchers Unravel Genetic Mystery Causing Complex Brain Disorders, Including Autism
McMaster University

The researchers used genetically engineered models and computer algorithms to study a human genome, which allowed them to pinpoint the single gene in question.

26-Feb-2018 10:00 AM EST
Mammoth Data: Researchers Sequence Complete Genomes of Extinct and Living Elephants Pointing to Highly Complex Relationships, Rich Evolutionary History
McMaster University

An international team of researchers has produced one of the most comprehensive evolutionary pictures to date by looking at one of the world's most iconic animal families - namely elephants, and their relatives mammoths and mastodons-spanning millions of years.

Released: 21-Feb-2018 9:05 AM EST
Deep Neural Networks Identifies Tumours with Unmatched Performance
Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

A team of artificial intelligence researchers developed a new deep-learning method to identify tumours in medical images.

   
Released: 16-Feb-2018 8:05 AM EST
Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research Unveils Its First Million Dollar Visionary Projects
University Health Network (UHN)

As the world marks international Heart Month, the Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research today announces its first-ever $1 million innovation grants, awarded to world-first projects positioned to alleviate the massive burden of heart failure on patients, loved ones and health-care systems.

14-Feb-2018 10:05 AM EST
Study Finds Opportunity to Increase Opioid Dependence Treatment in Ontario Jails
McMaster University

The study included completion of an online survey by 27 physicians, who reported working in 15 of 26 provincial correctional facilities for adults in Ontario. This included 10 of the 13 facilities with a population of more than 200. The study identified that about half of the physicians prescribed methadone and half prescribed buprenorphine/naloxone to treat opioid dependence.

Released: 13-Feb-2018 9:05 AM EST
Palm Oil in Your Valentine's Chocolate?
Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

A diet high in saturated fat causes, in addition to obesity and metabolic changes associated with a prediabetic state, anxiodepressive and compulsive behaviors. All of these effects were shown to be tied to inflammation in the nucleus accumbens, revealed a study conducted by a team from the CHUM Research Center (CRCHUM).

Released: 12-Feb-2018 6:05 PM EST
Too Much TV at Age 2 Makes for Less Healthy Adolescents
Universite de Montreal

Skipping breakfast, eating junk food and doing less well in school might all result from watching TV too young, study finds.

Released: 9-Feb-2018 9:00 AM EST
Underwater Seminar To Be Held Under the Water
University of Manitoba

Professor Gordon Giesbrecht is well known for his unique approach to cold water research. So well known, in fact, that he is less referred-to by his real name than his nickname, Professor Popsicle.

   
Released: 7-Feb-2018 10:05 AM EST
Live Webcast to Explore How to Decipher Quantum Mysteries
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Join physicist Robert Spekkens for a live webcast Feb. 7 as he draws unexpected parallels between Egyptian hieroglyphs, Plato’s philosophy, and the puzzles of quantum theory.

Released: 7-Feb-2018 8:05 AM EST
Whey More Muscle: New Analysis Proves Protein Supplements Provide Significant Benefits for Weight Lifters
McMaster University

The debate is over. Dietary protein supplements significantly improve muscle strength and size when taken by healthy adults who lift weights, a determination reached by McMaster scientists who analyzed dozens of research studies.

Released: 5-Feb-2018 12:40 PM EST
A Black Pop Cultural Hero Leaps Onto the Big Screen
University of Manitoba

“Bigotry and racism are among the deadliest social ills plaguing the world today… if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, then we must fill our hearts with tolerance.”

Released: 5-Feb-2018 10:05 AM EST
Hope for Patients with Lymphedema - New Surgical Treatment Offered at the CHUM
Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

The Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM) is now offering a new surgical treatment for patients with lymphedema, swelling caused by the abnormal accumulation of lymph fluid in a body part, most often the arms or legs. Lymphovenous bypass surgery consists of microsurgically connecting the affected lymphatic vessels to the venous system to facilitate lymph fluid flow, decrease the severity of the lymphedema, reduce the complications related to this chronic disease and improve the quality of life of lymphedema patients.

Released: 5-Feb-2018 8:05 AM EST
Device Keeps Donor Kidneys Healthy Outside the Body Until Transplant
University Health Network (UHN)

A deceased donor kidney has been preserved and kept healthy outside the body in a device that mimics the body’s physiological functions and successfully transplanted into a human, for the first time in North America.

Released: 2-Feb-2018 1:05 PM EST
McMaster Experts Explain the Mysteries of DNA to the World in a New Massive Online Open Course, or MOOC
McMaster University

Two McMaster University biochemists are working to explain the mysteries of DNA through a novel new public course, called DNA Decoded, which is available to everyone.

   
Released: 30-Jan-2018 10:05 AM EST
Better-Educated Men = Healthier Women and Mothers in the Developing World
Universite de Montreal

In much of Africa and Asia, the more schooling a man has, the more likely his partner will take birth control or seek medical help in pregnancy, according to Canadian researchers

Released: 25-Jan-2018 11:05 AM EST
The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation hosts 13th Annual Taylor Cup Pond Hockey Tournament
University Health Network (UHN)

The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation would like to invite media to attend this year’s Taylor Cup Pond Hockey Championship.

Released: 23-Jan-2018 12:05 AM EST
Discovery of the 'Pioneer' That Opens the Genome
Universite de Montreal

Researchers explain a cell differentiation mechanism in Nature Genetics.

Released: 19-Jan-2018 12:05 PM EST
TRIUMF’s Original Main Magnet Power Supply Laid to Rest
TRIUMF

On the afternoon of Thursday, December 21st, 2017, employees and alumni gathered around Ewart Blackmore on the second basement level of the Meson Hall for a celebration of a unique nature

Released: 16-Jan-2018 10:05 AM EST
Pharmaceuticals and Other Emerging Contaminants Force Fish to Work Harder to Survive
McMaster University

Pharmaceuticals and other man-made contaminants are forcing fish that live downstream from a typical sewage treatment plant to work at least 30 per cent harder just to survive, McMaster researchers have found.

15-Jan-2018 9:00 AM EST
Previous Influenza Virus Exposures Enhance Susceptibility in Another Influenza Pandemic
McMaster University

New data analysis suggests that people born at the time of the 1957 H2N2 or Asian Flu pandemic were at a higher risk of dying during the 2009 H1N1 Swine Flu pandemic as well as the resurgent H1N1 outbreak in 2013-2014. And it is not the first time this has happened.

Released: 15-Jan-2018 3:45 PM EST
Cellular Seismology: Putting Vibrations on the Map
Universite de Montreal

Scientists in Montreal develop a unique technique to map, on a scale of milliseconds, the elasticity of the components inside a cell.

8-Jan-2018 3:30 PM EST
Planets Around Other Stars Are Like Peas in a Pod
Universite de Montreal

A study of 909 planets and 355 stars carried out at the W.M. Keck Observatory reveals that, unlike our solar system, other planetary systems are distinguished by strict regularity.

3-Jan-2018 10:05 AM EST
DNA Analysis of Ancient Mummy, Thought to Have Smallpox, Points to Hepatitis B Infection Instead
McMaster University

Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of an ancient strain of Hepatitis B, shedding new light on a pathogen that today kills nearly one million people every year. The findings, based on data extracted from the mummified remains of a small child buried in Naples, Italy, confirm the idea that HBV has existed in humans for centuries.

   
Released: 20-Dec-2017 6:00 AM EST
Aggression in Childhood: Rooted in Genetics, Influenced by the Environment
Universite de Montreal

According to a new psychosocial study, reactive and proactive types of aggressive behaviour in 6-year-old children share most of the same genetic factors. However, their evolution over time seems to be influenced by various environmental factors, suggesting the need to develop different intervention methods.

   
Released: 19-Dec-2017 10:05 AM EST
Genital and Urinary Health Problems of Sexually Abused Children: Consequences for Girls
Universite de Montreal

A study in The Journal of Pediatrics by researchers at Université de Montréal reveals that sexual assault on children leads to an increase in genitourinary health problems in girls, but not boys.

11-Dec-2017 5:00 PM EST
Eating Together as a Family Helps Children Feel Better, Physically and Mentally
Universite de Montreal

Children who routinely eat their meals together with their family are more likely to experience long-term physical and mental health benefits, a new Canadian study shows.

Released: 12-Dec-2017 12:05 PM EST
Largest-Ever Gift to a Canadian Rehab Hospital Will Support New Therapies for Brain-Related Disorders
University Health Network (UHN)

With a transformational gift of $20 million to the Toronto Rehab Foundation, Walter and Maria Schroeder, along with their family, have established The Walter and Maria Schroeder Brain Institute.

12-Dec-2017 5:00 AM EST
Cystic Fibrosis: Discovery of a Key Molecule for Improving Treatments
Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

Researchers at the University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM) have identified a promising solution to improving treatments offered to patients with cystic fibrosis.

Released: 7-Dec-2017 4:05 PM EST
McMaster Researchers Find Genes May ‘Snowball’ Obesity
McMaster University

The researchers looked at 37 genes that are well established as modulating the body mass in 75,230 adults with European ancestry and found the nine with the snowball effect.

5-Dec-2017 12:05 PM EST
Spinal Tap Needle Type Impacts the Risk of Complications
McMaster University

There is a more than 50 per cent reduction in the occurrence of headaches with the atraumatic needles, and also more than a 50 per cent reduction in patient readmissions and return to emergency rooms for narcotics or blood patches.

Released: 6-Dec-2017 2:05 PM EST
Churchill Marine Observatory Receives New Federal Funding
University of Manitoba

In Churchill today, the federal government, through Western Economic Diversification Canada, announced a significant investment to assist Canadians with the cost of food and to generate economic growth, particularly in northern Manitoba.

Released: 6-Dec-2017 2:05 PM EST
Churchill Marine Observatory Receives New Federal Funding
University of Manitoba

In Churchill today, the federal government, through Western Economic Diversification Canada, announced a significant investment to assist Canadians with the cost of food and to generate economic growth, particularly in northern Manitoba.

6-Dec-2017 10:05 AM EST
Some Video Games Are Good for Older Adults' Brains
Universite de Montreal

Summary: Playing 3D-platform video games on a regular basis may improve cognitive functions in seniors and increase grey matter in a brain structure called the hippocampus, a Canadian study suggests

Released: 5-Dec-2017 8:05 AM EST
Fish Exposed to Treated Wastewater Have Altered Behaviour: Research
McMaster University

A team of researchers from Environment Canada and Climate Change Canada and McMaster University have found that fish living downstream from a wastewater treatment plant showed changes to their normal behaviour—ones that made them vulnerable to predators—when exposed to elevated levels of antidepressant drugs in the water.

Released: 4-Dec-2017 10:00 AM EST
OICR Launches Groundbreaking Cancer Therapeutics Innovation Pipeline to Drive Cutting-Edge Therapies to the Clinic
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) today announced the Cancer Therapeutics Innovation Pipeline (CTIP) initiative and the first 10 projects selected in CTIP’s inaugural round of funding. CTIP aims to support the local translation of Ontario discoveries into therapies with the potential for improving the lives of cancer patients.

Released: 4-Dec-2017 9:00 AM EST
When Will the Violence End? / À quand la fin de la violence?
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada / Journée nationale de commémoration et d’action contre la violence faite aux femmes au Canada

Released: 4-Dec-2017 9:00 AM EST
When Will the Violence End? / À quand la fin de la violence?
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada / Journée nationale de commémoration et d’action contre la violence faite aux femmes au Canada



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