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Health Research on the Front Lines: A Message from Research Canada’s President and CEO
A message from our President and CEO regarding COVID-19. […]
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Seniors with frailty will be hardest hit by COVID-19
Check in on seniors in your community and help them prepare for the long-term consequences of COVID-19 by John Muscedere As the Prime Minister addressed the nation, from his quarantined residence in Ottawa, he echoed […]
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Working Together: Lessons Learned from Military and Sports Concussion Symposium
KINGSTON, February 27, 2020 – Concussion Legacy Foundation Canada, Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research, and Queen’s Concussion Awareness Committee collaborate to host a half-day sport & military concussion symposium. WHO: Ken Dryden, Hockey Hall […]
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Neuroscience research adds key insights on communication between neurons
Understanding communication between nerve cells in the brain is one of the primary aims of neuroscience. Cutting-edge research led by a PhD student at York University, and championed by the Canada Research Chair in Molecular […]
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Remembering Dr. Frank Plummer
The purpose of science and research is not to study the world, but to change it. – Dr. Frank Plummer Research Canada and the global health research community are mourning the loss of Dr. Frank […]
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Climate crisis will affect our health from dwindling bees to food insecurity
Brainstorm’s guest contributor Paul Fraumeni sits down with five York University researchers to discuss climate change, how it affects human health and what we can do about it. Each academic offers unique insights from science, […]
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CORD President & CEO Durhane Wong-Rieger joins Economic Club of Canada panel to discuss “The Fight FOR Our Lives: Federal drug price controls put patient access at risk”
WHEN: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 – World Cancer Day – 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. WHERE: Fairmont Château Laurier, 1 Rideau Street, Ottawa Durhane Wong-Rieger, President and CEO of CORD, will join a distinguished panel to discuss […]
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National Diabetes Repository a Game Changer for Research
TORONTO, January 28, 2020 – For diabetes researchers across Canada, data from patients is a critical tool in determining what projects will truly make a difference for people living with the disease. Understanding how many people have […]
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Dr. Steven Smith appointed to research leadership roles at KGHRI, KHSC and Queen’s University
January 16, 2020 Dean Richard Reznick is pleased to announce that Tom Harris, Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic), Queen’s University, has appointed Dr. Steven Smith as Vice-Dean Research for the Faculty of Health Sciences, effective January 1, […]
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Just who are the winners and losers when biomedical advances eliminate death?
Philosophy Professor Regina Rini pens a provocative article in the UK-based Times Literary Supplement, which suggests that our near-descendants could live forever, thanks to biomedical breakthroughs. This would mean a moral crisis for the last generation facing […]