April 13, 2021
Evidence-based ‘OMICS in clinical practice
How do laboratory tools and advances in technology contribute to our understanding of health and disease, including the COVID-19 pandemic?...
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April 8, 2021
Statistical excellence recognized: McMaster President’s Award
Leanne Dyal, Manager, Statistical Operations, at PHRI is among the 2020 recipients of McMaster University President’s Awards for Outstanding Service....
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March 31, 2021
Meat and fish intake: PURE
Publications this month analyze data from PHRI’s PURE study to reveal new insight into the association of fish intake, and...
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March 29, 2021
LAAOS III at ACC 21
The much-anticipated results of the Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion-3 (LAAOS III) multinational trial will be presented by PHRI Scientist Richard...
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March 24, 2021
Dealing with predatory journals
Institutional and individual reputation damage can result when researchers publish in predatory journals, said David Moher, Director, Centre for Journalology,...
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March 16, 2021
Thrombosis collaboration deepens
The appointment of PHRI Senior Scientist Guillaume (Gui) Paré as the new Deputy Director of the Thrombosis and Atherosclerosis Research...
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March 11, 2021
World Kidney Day
Today is World Kidney Day, so it’s a good time to highlight all the renal research activity happening here these...
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March 8, 2021
Powerhouse researchers and doctors on International Women’s Day 2021
Being regularly labeled as “Canada’s first female First Nations general surgeon” isn’t what Nadine Caron would like to see happen...
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March 5, 2021
CIHR fall 2020 grants to PHRI
Five PHRI researchers have received a total of more than $4.5 million in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)...
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March 4, 2021
World Obesity Day
Today is World Obesity Day. A complex medical condition involving many factors – including ancestral origins and genetics, individual metabolism...
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March 2, 2021
What we eat, around the world
It’s Nutrition Month – and we take this opportunity to recognize some of the country’s most accomplished nutritional epidemiologists, here...
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March 1, 2021
New year, new hope, new direction
2020 was a year we will never forget – for the pandemic and its personal threats, for the complete disruption...
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February 25, 2021
Carbohydrate quality matters : PURE
A global study of people living on five continents has found that a diet high in poor-quality carbohydrates (called a...
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February 24, 2021
Chest patch for detecting AFib
The multicentre, randomized trial, SCREEN-AF, coordinated by PHRI, has demonstrated that a wearable heart monitor device can significantly improve the...
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February 19, 2021
Future stroke leaders truly international
PHRI Scientist Ashkan Shoamanesh is among 32 professionals to make the first cohort of the World Stroke Organization (WSO)’s Future...
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