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Medscape Medical News: Birth Outcomes Differ Across Canadian Immigration Categories

April 5, 2024 — 
Medscape Medical News: Birth Outcomes Differ Across Canadian Immigration Categories

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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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Dangers of fentanyl

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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

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A mother and daughter look at a grocery label while shopping.

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A recipe for safety:

April 2, 2024 — 
Researcher receives grant to explore ways to help Canadians eat well, stay safe

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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.

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Dr. Laura Bowler stands in a hallway at the University of Manitoba.

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.

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Dr. Mario Pinto, Vice-President (Research and International) visits UM researchers and patient cohorts in Nairobi.

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 speaks at her retirement celebration.

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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.

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Breaking down arthritis:

March 26, 2024 — 
Ignite grant launches new exploration into the causes of rheumatoid arthritis

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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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