October 12, 2023
PHRI at the World Stroke Congress 2023
Seven of PHRI distinguished Principal Investigators (PIs) have come together with over 3600 fellow stroke experts worldwide for the 15th...
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August 29, 2023
Hertzel Gerstein elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
PHRI Senior Scientist and Deputy Director, Hertzel Gerstein, has been elected as a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada...
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August 28, 2023
Frailty in patients with heart failure
Physical frailty is a characteristic that should be evaluated to assess the risk of poor outcomes in patients with heart...
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August 26, 2023
Modifiable risk factors responsible for half of CVD globally
More than half of all heart attacks and strokes are avoidable by checking and treating the five most common cardiovascular...
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August 25, 2023
Colchicine did not reduce cardiovascular complications in non-cardiac thoracic surgery, but encouraging signals found
A large, international study in patients undergoing non-cardiac thoracic surgery found that the anti-inflammatory drug, colchicine, did not significantly reduce...
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August 18, 2023
CIHR project grants Spring 2023 winners
More than $6.1 million has been awarded in total to PHRI studies in the Spring 2023 project grant competition of...
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August 14, 2023
Risk factors for oral anticoagulant-associated ICH
In an interview during the European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC 2023) in Munich, Germany, PHRI Scientist Ashkan Shoamanesh, in a video...
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August 11, 2023
Health equity symposium
A strong line-up of racialized women working in health equity research during the COVID pandemic will lecture at a new...
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August 10, 2023
PHRI at Joint Statistical Meetings 2023
PHRI participated in the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM 2023) August 5 – 10 in Toronto – the largest gathering of...
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July 26, 2023
Polypills added to WHO Essential Medicines List
Polypills, aka fixed dose combination (FDC) therapy, have been added for the first time to the 2023 Essential Medicines List...
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July 6, 2023
PURE Healthy Diet truly global, focused on protective foods
In the most diverse study of nutrition and health outcomes in the world – and the only study with sufficient...
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July 4, 2023
PHRI at ESC Congress 2023
Several PHRI researchers will present at European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2023 in Amsterdam/online next month, including an Advance...
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July 3, 2023
KidneyCure grant for multiomics research
PHRI Investigator Matthew Lanktree has been awarded the 2023 Carl W. Gottschalk Research Scholar Grant from KidneyCure / American Society...
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June 30, 2023
Jeffrey Weitz honoured with Order of Canada
We are delighted to learn that hematologist Jeffrey Weitz – a long-time research collaborator with PHRI – has been named...
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June 29, 2023
PHRI at World NCD Congress
PHRI researchers provided new insights into diet and health, stroke care and outcomes, CVD care and prevention, as well as...
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