June 17, 2021
Townhall on vaccine confidence
An online townhall featuring a panel of medical experts from McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, as well as Canada’s...
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June 3, 2021
RHD genetics
An exciting discovery sheds light on the genetics of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) in Black Africans, through the collaboration of...
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June 3, 2021
South Asian Canadians and the COVID-19 vaccine
A new study at PHRI investigates the immune response of the COVID-19 vaccine for the high-risk South Asian community in...
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May 28, 2021
OMICS and epidemiology
From COVID-19 to childhood cancer, from asthma to IBD, nutrition to depression – how ‘OMICs can be applied to clinical...
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May 28, 2021
Atrial fibrillation roadmap 2020: WHF
Three years after the original roadmap for atrial fibrillation (AF) organized by the World Heart Federation, leaders in the global...
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May 15, 2021
Left atrial appendage occlusion prevents stroke: LAAOS III
PHRI researchers have shown that surgical left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) during cardiac surgery prevents ischemic strokes in patients with...
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May 13, 2021
Helping India in its COVID-19 crisis
PHRI has set up a special campaign to support India’s fight against COVID -19. Our employees’ donations will help UNICEF...
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May 6, 2021
Early career researchers win PHRI internal grants
PHRI has awarded 10 of its early career researchers up to $100,000 for two years in the 2020 internal grant...
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May 5, 2021
Remembering Malaysian leader in academic medicine
Malaysia, the world, and PHRI global study teams have lost a great medical researcher, and colleague, with the passing in...
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April 23, 2021
SARS-CoV-2 and stroke characteristics
A multinational COVID-19 stroke study group – including PHRI Investigator Aristeidis Katsanos – has released a report of their observations...
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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, a manager in the statistics department at PHRI since 2014, was among the recipients of the McMaster University...
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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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