The Helen Glass Centre for Nursing on the Fort Garry campus will become the “Helen Glass Hospital for Sick Students” on Feb. 3, when students participate in Nightmare Night Care.
Twenty nursing students, fourteen medical students and three pharmacy students will play the role of patients and caregivers in a hospital setting.
The Faculty of Nursing has […]

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On January 27, 2012, the University of Manitoba publicly thanked the federal and provincial government for their financial support of the renovation and redevelopment of two major education and research facilities in the Faculty of Science. The Biological Sciences building and the Buller Building Science Laboratories were projects funded by the federal and provincial governments […]

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Manitoba residents are being invited to participate in the largest study of aging ever undertaken in Canada.
The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) will follow at least 50,000 Canadians between the ages of 45 and 85 for 20 years. The national study will collect information on the changing biological, medical, psychological, social, lifestyle and economic […]

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The Vulnerable Persons and End of Life New Emerging Team will be hosting an information session on palliative care and people with disabilities on Thursday, January 12, 2012, from 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm at the Manitoba Legislature, Golden Boy Room, 450 Broadway.
The event will feature presentations from leading palliative care and disability studies professors […]

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A study published last week in The Lancet reveals, despite policies meant to curb child maltreatment, it has not decreased in two decades.
The international study used information from England, USA, Sweden, New Zealand, Western Australia, and Canada-specifically Manitoba. It found physical abuse, neglect, and violent deaths in children mostly remained stable across the six nations.
The […]

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The Manitoba Network Environment for Aboriginal Health Research (NEAHR) Program, in partnership with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, is hosting the inaugural First Nations, Métis and Inuit Health Research Symposium on December 1 to 2, 2011 at the University of Manitoba Bannatyne Campus.
The NEAHR Program seeks to expand the pool of indigenous health […]

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Manitoba Health has announced $500,000 in funding (over five years) to the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry toward development of a groundbreaking online curriculum to educate non-dental healthcare providers about oral health.
Diseases and conditions of the oral cavity can have a profound and pervasive impact on overall health, especially in high-risk populations where access to […]

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