Max Rady College of Medicine News Archive
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Medscape Medical News: Birth Outcomes Differ Across Canadian Immigration Categories
April 5, 2024 —
Medscape Medical News: Birth Outcomes Differ Across Canadian Immigration Categories
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Rady Faculty gears up for Habitat for Humanity construction project
April 5, 2024 —
The Rady Faculty of Health Sciences is partnering for the fifth time with Habitat for Humanity Manitoba to construct a home for purchase by a hard-working Winnipeg family.
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CTV News Winnipeg: ‘Tragic’: Child fentanyl exposures in Winnipeg raising concerns
April 3, 2024 —
CTV News Winnipeg: 'Tragic': Child fentanyl exposures in Winnipeg raising concerns
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
UM researchers plan study of newly diagnosed children with autism
April 2, 2024 —
A UM team is seeking 150 families with a newly diagnosed child with autism to participate in the Pediatric Autism Research Cohort (PARC) study.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Data equity specialist aims for justice in health research
April 1, 2024 —
Dr. Laura Bowler is the first person to hold the position of data equity specialist at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP), a research unit in the Max Rady College of Medicine.
Research and International
Sex workers, marginalization and health in Africa
March 27, 2024 —
UM researchers in Kenya partner with the University of Nairobi to address the spread of infectious diseases among sex worker and sexual minority communities.
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Dr. Catherine Cook celebrated as trailblazer, mentor at retirement event
March 27, 2024 —
Dr. Catherine Cook, a Métis physician, Rady vice-dean (Indigenous health) and UM vice-president who championed Indigenous equity, was honoured at her Rady Faculty retirement celebration as a true trailblazer.
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
Breaking down arthritis:
March 26, 2024 —
Ignite grant launches new exploration into the causes of rheumatoid arthritis
Funding paves way for drug discovery platform for heart research at UM
March 25, 2024 —
A project led by Dr. Lorrie Kirshenbaum of the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba has received $3.9 million in federal and provincial funding to develop lab infrastructure dedicated to studying heart disease in women.
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VR technology to build confidence and competence in health-care learners
March 21, 2024 —
On March 15, dozens of students, faculty and staff at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences stood in the Brodie Atrium at Bannatyne campus and were transported to hospital rooms, care facilities and even accident sites by wearing virtual reality (VR) headsets.