UM in the News News Archive
Wpg Free Press: Faith-based health facilities obstructing access to assisted death: advocates
January 2, 2018 —
"The most vulnerable patients will lose their access to MAID if they’re unable to be transferred"
CBC: What if aspirin prevented HIV?
December 21, 2017 —
A simple way to limit HIV infection may have been detected by researchers in Manitoba from a well-known drug: aspirin.
CBC: ‘Right in their own backyard’: New Google Earth project maps Canada’s residential schools
December 13, 2017 —
"In this project, you can actually see residential schools, you can see where they were, and that helps make it that much more concrete"
Wpg Free Press: U of M grad to sit on International Criminal Court
December 11, 2017 —
Kimberly Prost, who graduated from here in 1981 and was called to the Manitoba bar in 1982, was elected this week with five other judges
CBC: New book explores the history of disability from ancient Greece to modern day
December 4, 2017 —
A new book co-edited by a University of Manitoba professor is exploring the role people with disabilities have played throughout history in cultures across the world
CBC: Trudeau names two new Senators, including Canada’s first female Indigenous dentist
December 4, 2017 —
Dr. Mary Jane McCallum has worked to provide important dental and health services to a range of northern, First Nations, and Indigenous communities throughout Manitoba
CBC: Why do mosquitoes seem so attracted to some people and not others?
December 4, 2017 —
Kateryn Rochon explains
Globe and Mail: How family ties help moms unbind from addiction
December 3, 2017 —
A University of Manitoba study, published this fall in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, showed women tended to have higher rates of mental illness and substance use disorder diagnoses after their children were taken into care.