A fight against breast cancer
Approximately one in eight cisgender women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their life. In 2020 alone, over 2 million were…
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MAPSS proposes free international student health care
The Manitoba Alliance of Post-Secondary Students (MAPSS) recently submitted a proposal to the province of Manitoba calling for the reinstatement of free health care for…
Anti-abortion group CCBR holds rally on campus
The anti-abortion group Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform (CCBR) held rallies at the U of M campus last Thursday and Friday. The group, which displays…
Shedding light on the emerging viral disease
Monkeypox, first identified in non-human primates in 1958, has become a global outbreak with over 50,000 cases worldwide. On Aug. 19, Manitoba Deputy Chief Provincial…
The easy way out of caring for people
In the first episode of Futurama, our hapless hero Philip J. Fry arrives in the year 2999 and stumbles upon one of the future’s popular…
U of M studies COVID-19’s impact on kids’ conditions
A University of Manitoba research project seeking to provide data on how COVID-19 and related conditions have affected children has received over $433,000 in funding…
Conservatives are an imminent threat to health care
As social conservatism has slowly lost traction, the economic state of affairs of Conservatives has remained firm despite the evident disruption this has caused to the health system throughout Canada.
Fourth vaccine dose available to elderly Manitobans
Fourth doses of COVID-19 vaccines are now available for anyone aged 70 or older and Indigenous people older than 50 in
Manitoba.
High-risk, high-reward funding for amniotic fluid study
Chris Pascoe, an assistant professor in the Max Rady college of medicine, has been awarded funding from the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) to support his research into investigating the causal link between smoking mothers and poor infant lung health.
Measuring health equity in First Nations children
The week of March 21 to March 25 was Health Equity Week in Manitoba. The purpose of the week was to acknowledge and work to improve the equitability of health-care services among diverse communities in Manitoba. The week’s events were supported by Shared Health, CancerCare Manitoba, the George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation, Healthcare Excellence Canada, Indigenous Health and all five Manitoban regional health authorities.