Rady Faculty of Health Sciences News Archive
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UM institute leads ‘momentous’ vaccine rollout to First Nations at request of federal government
March 12, 2021 —
In a landmark acknowledgment of the growing health-care autonomy of Indigenous Peoples, the federal government has given an Indigenous health institute at the University of Manitoba responsibility for leading the COVID-19 vaccination project in all 63 Manitoba First Nations
UM researchers to advance knowledge of COVID-19 impacts and improve health outcomes
March 12, 2021 —
One year after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, additional research is needed to understand and address persistent issues related to COVID-19 and the threat of future coronavirus and other infectious disease outbreaks
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Graduate programs in nursing reach 40-year milestone
March 11, 2021 —
In 1980, the College of Nursing took a major step in its evolution: it admitted the first students to its inaugural master of nursing program. “It’s hard to believe it’s been 40 years,” says associate professor Judith Scanlan [BN/67, M.Ed./83, PhD/96], former associate dean, graduate programs, who has been teaching at the college for 46 years and joined the full-time faculty in 1983. “We’ve come a long way.”
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UM study examines impact of virtual health care
March 9, 2021 —
University of Manitoba researchers are conducting a study to assess the impact that the rapid switch to virtual health-care delivery in the province during the COVID-19 pandemic has had on patients and health-care workers.
New precision health ‘All for One’ network for the Prairies
March 9, 2021 —
'Genomics has enormous potential to improve Canadians’ lives and to advance post-pandemic economic recovery'
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Occupational therapy student honoured by Manitoba 150
March 8, 2021 —
Reagan Croy, a first-year occupational therapy student at the College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, was taken by surprise when she found out she was named to Honour 150, a list that recognizes people who “stand out for their role in making Manitoba such an amazing province.”
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‘Transformative work in real time’
March 3, 2021 —
Long-standing collaborative relationships between a University of Manitoba health institute and Indigenous communities laid the groundwork for UM to support a First Nations-led response to COVID-19, two health leaders said in a recent keynote address.
Preventing unintended disaster
March 1, 2021 —
A UM team is starting a novel study to see if our cautionary measures are enabling a disaster somewhere else
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NCCID important COVID-19 resource for public health
March 1, 2021 —
When word of a new coronavirus spread around the world in early 2020, the National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCCID)at the University of Manitoba took action
Research and International
Hip to heparin
March 1, 2021 —
A University of Manitoba research team is emerging as a global leader in COVID-19 anticoagulation trials thanks to their innovative, global trial studying different types of heparin, an anticoagulant (blood thinning) and anti-inflammatory drug