On Thursday, March 21, 2013, at 3:00 pm., Karina Cardona Claros, a student in the department of environment and geography, will be presenting a talk titled “Creative Skills for Confronting the Ableist City: Resisting Immobility Following Spinal Cord Injury.”
Cardona Claros will be telling the story of growing up with a visible disability, and how it […]

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Cancer is now the leading cause of death in Canada and infections are still a significant cause of death and suffering. It is becoming increasingly clear that infections cause many cancers with 20 per cent of cancers worldwide are caused by preventable or treatable infections such as H. pylori, the human papillomavirus (HPV) and hepatitis […]

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Roberta Woodgate, Faculty of Nursing professor at the University of Manitoba, has been awarded a research chair in child and youth health from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).
Woodgate has been a trailblazer in this area of medical research. Prior to her research in this field, the voices of children and youth were […]

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According to recent StatsCan data, at least a quarter of Canadian parents in dual-earner families said they were unsatisfied with the balance in their work and family domains. Parents are spending an increasing amount of time in the workplace, which often means less time with their loved ones.
The traditional nine-to-five schedule can be rigid and […]

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A new study shows the use of corn-based hydroxyethyl starches (HES), the most common blood volume expanders used to resuscitate critically ill patients with low blood pressure, may be doing more harm than good.
A team of researchers led by Dr. Ryan Zarychanski at the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI) at the […]

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On Thursday, February 14, 2013, Dr. Harvey Chochinov, University of Manitoba Canada Research Chair in Palliative Care, is giving a presentation on the dignity of people with disabilities.
Last month, he released a major paper in the journal Cancer on the importance of caregivers’ actions to reduce stress in people living with cancer. The article provided […]

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The work of a team of University of Manitoba researchers will be featured this week on a new episode of The Nature of Things with David Suzuki.
ZAPPED: The Buzz About Mosquitoes is the story of our ongoing struggle to conquer a little insect that is both delicate and deadly. As the program reveals, this beautiful […]

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