January 31, 2023 by Laura Lawson
Exposure to a greater number of adverse childhood experiences may accelerate biological aging in older adults, a McMaster University study has found.
January 31, 2023
McMaster University Libraries are announcing two agreements that remove financial barriers to publishing research.
January 30, 2023 by Fram Dinshaw
McMaster University researcher Sameer Parpia is receiving more than $2.5 million in federal funding to help plug a critical shortage of clinical trial biostatisticians using a Canada-wide training platform.
January 23, 2023
Nominations are now open for the 2023 inductees to the Community of Distinction of the Faculty of Health Sciences. Nomination deadline: Friday, April 28, 2023
January 19, 2023 by Brighter World
January 18, 2023 by Fram Dinshaw
McMaster University researchers are joining the federally funded Canadian Pediatric Cancer Consortium to tackle childhood cancers.
January 17, 2023
The part-time, online Graduate Diploma in Community and Public Health is slated to begin in September 2023.
January 6, 2023
Gina Browne was a trailblazer in advancing evidence-informed innovations in care and service delivery for vulnerable populations.
January 5, 2023
Middle-aged adults living with frailty in the community were more likely to find accessing healthcare difficult during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic than their older counterparts
December 21, 2022 by Beth Gallagher
December 20, 2022
Saroo Sharda begins as the Faculty of Health Science (FHS)’s inaugural associate dean of equity and inclusion on Feb. 1, 2023.
December 19, 2022
The Pediatric Autism Research Cohort (PARC) study led by Stelios Georgiades will be one of the world’s largest studies aimed at finding out the care needs of children with autism.
December 15, 2022
The new Access, Watch, Reserve (AWaRe) Antibiotic Book aims to help clinicians prescribe the correct type and dosage of medications for the 30 most commonly seen infections in children and adults.
December 1, 2022
A McMaster University professor who has established gold standards for how health research should be done and evaluated, and who coined the phrase ‘evidence-based medicine’ (EBM), is receiving a major international award.
November 29, 2022
Surgical masks are not inferior to N95 masks for preventing the spread of COVID-19 to health-care workers, says a study led by McMaster University researchers.
November 28, 2022 by Daily News
November 22, 2022
Genetic factors are strongly associated with the development of gestational diabetes (GDM) among women of South Asian ancestry, Hamilton-led research has found.
November 21, 2022 by Jesse Dory
November 17, 2022
Dr. D’Souza discusses the importance of centering individuals with lived experience of pregnancy in pregnancy-related research.
November 17, 2022
Five Faculty of Health Sciences researchers have been named Canada Research Chairs and four more have received renewals of the award.
November 16, 2022
An international study led by McMaster University researchers and published in The Lancet Global Health has found that influenza vaccines greatly reduce both pneumonia and cardiovascular complications in people with heart failure.
November 14, 2022
November 7, 2022 by Brighter World
November 7, 2022
Five key messages for general and specialist care providers, as well as caregivers, to promote best practices for managing atopic dermatitis in infants.
November 1, 2022
A McMaster study found that existing studies approach MD/PhD student diversity separately in terms of gender and racial and ethnic origins, without examining how students’ individual identities may intersect.
October 21, 2022
Two McMaster women scientists have been named to an international ranking of best female scientists.
October 18, 2022 by Michael Cordeiro
October 17, 2022
A research team led by McMaster University professor Holger Schünemann has found that a website giving a map of the recommendations works better than a conventional website for distributing the information effectively.
October 14, 2022
Teresa Chan is being recognized for her work examining how health professionals can best use social media to increase health literacy in both physicians and the lay public.
October 13, 2022 by Heather Angus-Lee
October 12, 2022 by Heather Angus-Lee
October 12, 2022
The 2022 Gairdner Lecture at McMaster University on Oct. 28 will feature Montreal neurologist Guy Rouleau discussing his work on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the fatal neurodegenerative disease.
October 11, 2022
Three visionary leaders, whose research and contributions furthered the reputation of McMaster University and its Faculty of Health Sciences, are being inducted into the Faculty’s Community of Distinction next month.
October 7, 2022 by Daily News
October 6, 2022
A McMaster University-led interdisciplinary team of researchers, policy and community partners is launching a major investigation into the pandemic’s impact on Canadian children and youth.
September 26, 2022 by Gillian Earle
September 20, 2022
September 19, 2022
Health-care researchers should avoid using terms like ‘race,’ ‘ancestry,’ or ‘ethnicity’ interchangeably in their studies and research reports, says McMaster University professor Sonia Anand in her latest study.
September 16, 2022
Faculty members who are directors of research centres and institutes or hold endowed chairs supported by DeGroote and his family pay tribute to Michael G. DeGroote.
September 15, 2022 by Daily News
September 9, 2022
A McMaster project focused on co-creating interventions aimed at preventing chronic disease in vulnerable populations in a Hamilton community is receiving an $870,000 investment from the federal government.
September 9, 2022
Dean and Vice-President, Paul O’Byrne on health equity and how the Faculty of Health Sciences is focused on addressing this issue.
September 9, 2022 by Heather Angus-Lee
Women and men share most of the same risk factors for cardiovascular disease a large international study has found
September 8, 2022 by Daniella Fiorentino
Four McMaster researchers, including two from the Faculty of Health Sciences, have been recognized this year by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for their contributions to research and scholarship.
August 19, 2022
The increase in paramedic transport rates over the last decade far exceeds population growth and walk-in emergency department (ED) visits in Ontario, according to a new study from ICES and McMaster University.
August 18, 2022
McMaster University's popular international review course in internal medicine, being held both virtually and in-person in Krakow, Poland from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, 2022 is now open to McMaster community members with free registration.
August 17, 2022
August 3, 2022 by Steven Ma & Erin Beaulieu
In a newly published commentary, Anjali Menezes and co-authors call upon Canadian medical schools and institutions to begin collecting race-based performance data.
August 2, 2022
John Bienenstock, known internationally as a visionary physician, scientist, academic and a leader at McMaster University, is receiving tributes from his university colleagues. He died July 25 at age 85.
July 26, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
Moderna vaccines are better than Pfizer in protecting residents of long-term care (LTC) homes from COVID-19 Omicron infections, say McMaster University researchers.
July 19, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
People with mild or moderate eczema may gain some relief from their condition by adjusting their diets
July 14, 2022
The Public Engagement in Health Policy Project, an initiative funded by the Future of Canada Project at McMaster, examines how public engagement is conducted in Canada, identifying gaps and opportunities that will help define what public engagement should look like in the future.
July 5, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
A COVID CommUNITY – South Asian study, led by McMaster University researchers has found that South Asian communities living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) suffered disproportionately from COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic.
June 29, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
McMaster professor Parminder Raina has been named a member of the Order of Canada for his research on aging and its impact on health and disease.
June 23, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
Medical industry sponsorship of economic evaluations on new treatments are more likely to be found cost-effective than independent research across a range of diseases.
June 21, 2022
McMaster's Faculty of Health Sciences joins Canadians across the country today to recognize and celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day.
June 21, 2022 by Daily News
June 2, 2022
Three McMaster University scientists have been named Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) and two more have received renewals of the honour created to promote Canada’s role as a global leader in medical innovation.
June 1, 2022 by Mike Beattie
Lehana Thabane, a Hamilton-based biostatistician whose work is celebrated internationally, has been named the recipient of the 2022 Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work from the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC).
May 30, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
Residents of Ontario retirement homes have higher rates of hospital-based care compared to people in long-term care (LTC) facilities, say McMaster University researchers.
May 27, 2022 by Mike Beattie
Prone positioning, or lying face down, does not significantly reduce the risk of intubation in hospitalized patients experiencing acute hypoxemic respiratory failure from COVID-19, according to Hamilton-based researchers.
May 27, 2022
McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) is holding a symposium Wednesday, June 1 on tackling Islamophobia in health care and improving health care for Canadian Muslims.
May 26, 2022 by Daily News
Faculty of Health Sciences valedictorian Jacqueline Rintjema graduates with a Master of Public Health degree.
May 19, 2022 by Daily News
May 4, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
An international award named for McMaster University’s founding father of Canadian evidence-based medicine has been brought home for the first time by a research team from the department he established.
May 3, 2022 by Heather Angus-Lee
Researchers of McMaster University’s Population Health Research Institute will play a foundational role in a new, coast-to-coast patient-driven network tackling the challenge of heart failure, a common condition that is often fatal and on the rise in Canada.
May 2, 2022 by Heather Angus-Lee
High-risk patients who need defibrillators to prevent cardiac arrest can experience fewer complications with a type of device implanted under the skin, a Canadian study led by McMaster University researchers has found.
April 25, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
McMaster University’s Teresa Chan is winner of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC)’s Outstanding Contribution to Faculty Development Award for innovations in medical education.
April 25, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
A Northwestern University professor will present ‘When Wonky Works: Success, Failures and Learning Gaps in Implementation Science for Public Policy’ as part of his winning the Chanchlani Global Health Research lecture at McMaster University on May 9.
April 12, 2022 by Laura Lawson
New research emerging from McMaster and McGill Universities provides insight into the reasons and the factors that may lead to vaccine hesitancy among older adults, who are known to be at increased risk of severe symptoms from COVID-19.
April 5, 2022
McMaster professor Deborah Cook is the winner of the prestigious 2022 Canada Gairdner Wightman Award for her ground-breaking research in the treatment of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU).
April 3, 2022
An international study led by McMaster University researchers has found that flu vaccines can greatly reduce the risk of life-threatening complications in people with heart failure.
April 3, 2022 by Heather Angus-Lee
A large, international study led by McMaster University researchers has found a drug that helps the blood to clot reduced life-threatening, major and critical organ bleeding in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery – without increasing major vascular complications.
April 1, 2022
St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton Health Sciences and the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University have jointly signed the Hamilton Charter for Promoting Gender Equity in Health Care.
March 28, 2022
McMaster University’s Midwifery Education Program (MEP) is launching Canada’s first Master of Science (MSc) degree for midwives to build both scholarship and leadership in the profession.
March 23, 2022 by McMaster Brighter World
March 21, 2022
A new edition of the McMaster Textbook of Internal Medicine – South Asian Edition 2022 is being released both in print and online
March 15, 2022
World-renowned cardiologist Salim Yusuf has won the prestigious Killam Prize for health sciences for his research on preventing and treating cardiovascular disease.
March 15, 2022 by PHRI
McMaster University’s Hertzel Gerstein has received the 2022 Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award for his extensive research on diabetes prevention and treatment.
March 9, 2022
Dr. Fatimah Jackson-Best, assistant professor with the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI), discusses her research that seeks to improve access to mental health and addictions services for Black communities across Ontario.
March 8, 2022 by Casey Irvin
A community-based research project to promote health, independence and mobility among older adults has received nearly $1 million from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) Healthy Canadians and Communities Fund (HCCF).
March 2, 2022
A large international study led by McMaster University researchers has found an important new benchmark for measuring the risk of death for patients undergoing heart surgery.
February 23, 2022
People who experienced an immediate allergic reaction to their first COVID-19 vaccine are unlikely to experience a severe immediate allergic reaction to a second dose, says a study involving McMaster University scientists.
February 22, 2022
The dean of a school of public health, known for his rigor in research methods and uncompromisingly truthful communication of research findings, will be the 2022 Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor hosted by the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact. Lectures are March 8, 9 and 11.
February 15, 2022
A successful diagnostic algorithm developed by McMaster University researchers that can both detect deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and reduce the need for ultrasound scans, has been published in The BMJ.
February 14, 2022 by John Lavis
Some political leaders — the Jair Bolsonaros and Donald Trumps of the world — have given the public the impression that they’re at war with the scientific community. They’ve wilfully ignored evidence and trafficked in misinformation in ways that have led to botched pandemic responses and cost the lives of millions.
February 11, 2022
Here at HEI, and across McMaster University, we do not need to look far to find inspirational women working in STEM.
February 7, 2022
HEI's John Lavis is co-lead of the secretariat of the Global Commission on Evidence to Address Societal Challenges, which has released a report that finds a shift in responses to the pandemic shows the need to provide governments and leaders with similar high-quality evidence to address other pressing issues.
February 3, 2022
The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) is celebrating Black History Month as part of the commitment to celebrate Black excellence, address injustices faced and amplify the voices and narratives across the Black community.
February 2, 2022
A new study has found that greater body fat is a risk factor for reduced cognitive function, such as processing speed, in adults.
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January 31, 2023 by Laura Lawson
Exposure to a greater number of adverse childhood experiences may accelerate biological aging in older adults, a McMaster University study has found.
January 31, 2023
McMaster University Libraries are announcing two agreements that remove financial barriers to publishing research.
January 30, 2023 by Fram Dinshaw
McMaster University researcher Sameer Parpia is receiving more than $2.5 million in federal funding to help plug a critical shortage of clinical trial biostatisticians using a Canada-wide training platform.
January 23, 2023
Nominations are now open for the 2023 inductees to the Community of Distinction of the Faculty of Health Sciences. Nomination deadline: Friday, April 28, 2023
January 19, 2023 by Brighter World
January 18, 2023 by Fram Dinshaw
McMaster University researchers are joining the federally funded Canadian Pediatric Cancer Consortium to tackle childhood cancers.
January 5, 2023
Middle-aged adults living with frailty in the community were more likely to find accessing healthcare difficult during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic than their older counterparts
December 21, 2022 by Beth Gallagher
December 19, 2022
The Pediatric Autism Research Cohort (PARC) study led by Stelios Georgiades will be one of the world’s largest studies aimed at finding out the care needs of children with autism.
December 15, 2022
The new Access, Watch, Reserve (AWaRe) Antibiotic Book aims to help clinicians prescribe the correct type and dosage of medications for the 30 most commonly seen infections in children and adults.
December 1, 2022
A McMaster University professor who has established gold standards for how health research should be done and evaluated, and who coined the phrase ‘evidence-based medicine’ (EBM), is receiving a major international award.
November 29, 2022
Surgical masks are not inferior to N95 masks for preventing the spread of COVID-19 to health-care workers, says a study led by McMaster University researchers.
November 22, 2022
Genetic factors are strongly associated with the development of gestational diabetes (GDM) among women of South Asian ancestry, Hamilton-led research has found.
November 21, 2022 by Jesse Dory
November 17, 2022
Five Faculty of Health Sciences researchers have been named Canada Research Chairs and four more have received renewals of the award.
November 16, 2022
An international study led by McMaster University researchers and published in The Lancet Global Health has found that influenza vaccines greatly reduce both pneumonia and cardiovascular complications in people with heart failure.
November 7, 2022 by Brighter World
November 7, 2022
Five key messages for general and specialist care providers, as well as caregivers, to promote best practices for managing atopic dermatitis in infants.
November 1, 2022
A McMaster study found that existing studies approach MD/PhD student diversity separately in terms of gender and racial and ethnic origins, without examining how students’ individual identities may intersect.
October 18, 2022 by Michael Cordeiro
October 17, 2022
A research team led by McMaster University professor Holger Schünemann has found that a website giving a map of the recommendations works better than a conventional website for distributing the information effectively.
October 13, 2022 by Heather Angus-Lee
October 6, 2022
A McMaster University-led interdisciplinary team of researchers, policy and community partners is launching a major investigation into the pandemic’s impact on Canadian children and youth.
September 19, 2022
Health-care researchers should avoid using terms like ‘race,’ ‘ancestry,’ or ‘ethnicity’ interchangeably in their studies and research reports, says McMaster University professor Sonia Anand in her latest study.
September 9, 2022
A McMaster project focused on co-creating interventions aimed at preventing chronic disease in vulnerable populations in a Hamilton community is receiving an $870,000 investment from the federal government.
September 9, 2022 by Heather Angus-Lee
Women and men share most of the same risk factors for cardiovascular disease a large international study has found
September 8, 2022 by Daniella Fiorentino
Four McMaster researchers, including two from the Faculty of Health Sciences, have been recognized this year by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for their contributions to research and scholarship.
August 19, 2022
The increase in paramedic transport rates over the last decade far exceeds population growth and walk-in emergency department (ED) visits in Ontario, according to a new study from ICES and McMaster University.
August 18, 2022
McMaster University's popular international review course in internal medicine, being held both virtually and in-person in Krakow, Poland from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, 2022 is now open to McMaster community members with free registration.
August 3, 2022 by Steven Ma & Erin Beaulieu
In a newly published commentary, Anjali Menezes and co-authors call upon Canadian medical schools and institutions to begin collecting race-based performance data.
July 26, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
Moderna vaccines are better than Pfizer in protecting residents of long-term care (LTC) homes from COVID-19 Omicron infections, say McMaster University researchers.
July 19, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
People with mild or moderate eczema may gain some relief from their condition by adjusting their diets
July 14, 2022
The Public Engagement in Health Policy Project, an initiative funded by the Future of Canada Project at McMaster, examines how public engagement is conducted in Canada, identifying gaps and opportunities that will help define what public engagement should look like in the future.
July 5, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
A COVID CommUNITY – South Asian study, led by McMaster University researchers has found that South Asian communities living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) suffered disproportionately from COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic.
June 29, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
McMaster professor Parminder Raina has been named a member of the Order of Canada for his research on aging and its impact on health and disease.
June 23, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
Medical industry sponsorship of economic evaluations on new treatments are more likely to be found cost-effective than independent research across a range of diseases.
June 1, 2022 by Mike Beattie
Lehana Thabane, a Hamilton-based biostatistician whose work is celebrated internationally, has been named the recipient of the 2022 Award for Impact of Applied and Collaborative Work from the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC).
May 30, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
Residents of Ontario retirement homes have higher rates of hospital-based care compared to people in long-term care (LTC) facilities, say McMaster University researchers.
May 27, 2022 by Mike Beattie
Prone positioning, or lying face down, does not significantly reduce the risk of intubation in hospitalized patients experiencing acute hypoxemic respiratory failure from COVID-19, according to Hamilton-based researchers.
May 4, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
An international award named for McMaster University’s founding father of Canadian evidence-based medicine has been brought home for the first time by a research team from the department he established.
May 3, 2022 by Heather Angus-Lee
Researchers of McMaster University’s Population Health Research Institute will play a foundational role in a new, coast-to-coast patient-driven network tackling the challenge of heart failure, a common condition that is often fatal and on the rise in Canada.
May 2, 2022 by Heather Angus-Lee
High-risk patients who need defibrillators to prevent cardiac arrest can experience fewer complications with a type of device implanted under the skin, a Canadian study led by McMaster University researchers has found.
April 25, 2022 by Fram Dinshaw
A Northwestern University professor will present ‘When Wonky Works: Success, Failures and Learning Gaps in Implementation Science for Public Policy’ as part of his winning the Chanchlani Global Health Research lecture at McMaster University on May 9.
April 12, 2022 by Laura Lawson
New research emerging from McMaster and McGill Universities provides insight into the reasons and the factors that may lead to vaccine hesitancy among older adults, who are known to be at increased risk of severe symptoms from COVID-19.
April 5, 2022
McMaster professor Deborah Cook is the winner of the prestigious 2022 Canada Gairdner Wightman Award for her ground-breaking research in the treatment of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU).
April 3, 2022
An international study led by McMaster University researchers has found that flu vaccines can greatly reduce the risk of life-threatening complications in people with heart failure.
April 3, 2022 by Heather Angus-Lee
A large, international study led by McMaster University researchers has found a drug that helps the blood to clot reduced life-threatening, major and critical organ bleeding in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery – without increasing major vascular complications.
March 23, 2022 by McMaster Brighter World
March 15, 2022
World-renowned cardiologist Salim Yusuf has won the prestigious Killam Prize for health sciences for his research on preventing and treating cardiovascular disease.
March 15, 2022 by PHRI
McMaster University’s Hertzel Gerstein has received the 2022 Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award for his extensive research on diabetes prevention and treatment.
March 9, 2022
Dr. Fatimah Jackson-Best, assistant professor with the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI), discusses her research that seeks to improve access to mental health and addictions services for Black communities across Ontario.
March 8, 2022 by Casey Irvin
A community-based research project to promote health, independence and mobility among older adults has received nearly $1 million from the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) Healthy Canadians and Communities Fund (HCCF).
March 2, 2022
A large international study led by McMaster University researchers has found an important new benchmark for measuring the risk of death for patients undergoing heart surgery.
February 23, 2022
People who experienced an immediate allergic reaction to their first COVID-19 vaccine are unlikely to experience a severe immediate allergic reaction to a second dose, says a study involving McMaster University scientists.
February 15, 2022
A successful diagnostic algorithm developed by McMaster University researchers that can both detect deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and reduce the need for ultrasound scans, has been published in The BMJ.
February 14, 2022 by John Lavis
Some political leaders — the Jair Bolsonaros and Donald Trumps of the world — have given the public the impression that they’re at war with the scientific community. They’ve wilfully ignored evidence and trafficked in misinformation in ways that have led to botched pandemic responses and cost the lives of millions.
February 2, 2022
A new study has found that greater body fat is a risk factor for reduced cognitive function, such as processing speed, in adults.
January 6, 2023
Gina Browne was a trailblazer in advancing evidence-informed innovations in care and service delivery for vulnerable populations.
October 21, 2022
Two McMaster women scientists have been named to an international ranking of best female scientists.
October 12, 2022 by Heather Angus-Lee
October 12, 2022
The 2022 Gairdner Lecture at McMaster University on Oct. 28 will feature Montreal neurologist Guy Rouleau discussing his work on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the fatal neurodegenerative disease.
October 7, 2022 by Daily News
September 16, 2022
Faculty members who are directors of research centres and institutes or hold endowed chairs supported by DeGroote and his family pay tribute to Michael G. DeGroote.
September 15, 2022 by Daily News
February 22, 2022
The dean of a school of public health, known for his rigor in research methods and uncompromisingly truthful communication of research findings, will be the 2022 Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor hosted by the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact. Lectures are March 8, 9 and 11.
February 3, 2022
The Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) is celebrating Black History Month as part of the commitment to celebrate Black excellence, address injustices faced and amplify the voices and narratives across the Black community.
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