Max Rady College of Medicine News Archive
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Scientific American: How Deadly Is Mpox, What Vaccines are Effective, and Other Questions Answered
August 30, 2024 —
How Deadly Is Mpox, What Vaccines are Effective, and Other Questions Answered
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Winnipeg Free Press: Focused on opening safe consumption site: addictions minister
August 30, 2024 —
Focused on opening safe consumption site: addictions minister
Provost and Vice-President (Academic)
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Support Fund recipients announced
August 29, 2024 —
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Support Fund provides opportunities for professors, instructors and librarians to undertake projects that increase knowledge in pedagogy and learning. This year, six awards of $6,000 and one major award of $25,000 were awarded. Learn about Dr. Jason Peeler's research to improve clinical skills training in the area of musculoskeletal medicine.
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UM-educated surgeon remembered for mentorship, compassion
August 29, 2024 —
Dr. Ken Thorlakson, a distinguished surgeon and former UM faculty member who passed away this year, was an exceptional mentor who greatly inspired younger surgeons, a colleague recently recalled.
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See the person, not just the illness, distinguished physician urges new medical students
August 22, 2024 —
To truly care for patients, you must recognize them as whole persons and not reduce them to their medical profiles, an expert on dignity in health care told UM’s newest class of future doctors.
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White coat ceremony media coverage
August 21, 2024 —
White Coat ceremony media coverage
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Breaking boundaries in pediatric cancer:
August 21, 2024 —
A newly published study on childhood brain cancer offers hope for more targeted treatment with fewer side effects.
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UM team receives $6.9 million to test pneumonia treatment and expand network of research sites
August 13, 2024 —
An international, UM-led clinical trial to assess the effects of a steroid drug on patients hospitalized with pneumonia has been awarded $6.9 million by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Research and International
Medical breakthrough provides hope for early risk stratification of a deadly blood cancer
August 8, 2024 —
Dr. Sabine Mai publishes groundbreaking study shows early risk stratification of smoldering multiple myeloma, a precursor state to multiple myeloma, a deadly form of blood cancer.
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Rady HIV-AIDS researcher, educator receives inaugural postdoc fellowship in memory of AIDS trailblazer
August 8, 2024 —
This funding will significantly advance our educational outreach and research initiatives on HIV, sexually transmitted, and blood-borne infections in Manitoba.