February 26, 2021 by Casey Irvin
Nadia Plach, who has helped transform Canadian palliative care services with an approach to leadership through ceaseless interprofessional collaboration, has been awarded the 2021 Elizabeth J. Latimer Prize in Palliative Care.
February 24, 2021
A large study of people living on five continents, led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Toronto, has found a diet high in poor quality carbohydrates leads to a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes, and death.
February 16, 2021 by Michelle Donovan
A team of virologists, infectious disease experts and immunologists at McMaster is developing two new second-generation COVID-19 vaccine candidates, designing and producing them in a specialized facility on campus.
February 16, 2021
A McMaster stem cell research team has made an important early step in developing a new class of therapeutics for patients with a deadly blood cancer.
February 9, 2021
McMaster University researchers are leading a large international study to test drugs to treat COVID-19 patients. The trial will evaluate the effectiveness of ivermectin, metformin and fluvoxamine on preventing COVID-19 disease progression, and the researchers say the results could be known in as short a time as two to three months.
February 8, 2021 by Tina Depko
A partnership between McMaster University and the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) is helping improve eye care for Indigenous children in northern Ontario.
February 3, 2021 by Devon Ainslie
A new program in Niagara is helping individuals experiencing homelessness or home insecurity navigate the emergency department with the help of their peers.
February 1, 2021
More than 432,000 Canadians over the age of 65 are living with dementia, but there is no current estimate of undiagnosed dementia in Canada. A new investment in a flagship research initiative led by McMaster University will change that by addressing the knowledge gap around undiagnosed dementia and improving understanding of known and emerging risk factors related to the disease.
January 29, 2021
Social movements, fuelled by social media, can be an important public health tool to support vulnerable community members, particularly during a pandemic, according to new research from McMaster University.
January 22, 2021
McMaster University researchers have established in lab settings that a novel combination of two forms of immunotherapy can be highly effective for treating lung cancer, which causes more deaths than any other form of cancer.
January 19, 2021
New research from McMaster University has found that psychiatric help for mothers with postpartum depression results in healthy changes in the brains of their babies.
January 15, 2021
A team of neuroscientists and engineers at McMaster University has created a nasal spray to deliver antipsychotic medication directly to the brain instead of having it pass through the body.
February 26, 2021 by Casey Irvin
Nadia Plach, who has helped transform Canadian palliative care services with an approach to leadership through ceaseless interprofessional collaboration, has been awarded the 2021 Elizabeth J. Latimer Prize in Palliative Care.
February 3, 2021 by Devon Ainslie
A new program in Niagara is helping individuals experiencing homelessness or home insecurity navigate the emergency department with the help of their peers.
December 8, 2020
What does the CBS game show Survivor and Health Sciences have in common? More than you might think, according to Hartley Jafine, a lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences. He, along with Jennifer Nash, developed a new course this semester called Surviving Survivor: Insights from Reality TV for Real Life.
November 12, 2020
A team with ties to McMaster University's Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) Program has placed first in Convergence.Tech’s 2020 Digital Inclusion Challenge.
September 8, 2020
Academics across Canada are organizing activities in support of Black Lives Matter as the school year begins. McMaster recognizes the importance of these initiatives in raising awareness about anti-Black racism and advocating for change.
September 8, 2020
Mark Loeb and Dawn Bowdish, both professors of pathology and molecular medicine of the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University, are being honoured by the Royal Society of Canada.
September 2, 2020
McMaster has been named one of the top 70 universities in the world, according to an internationally influential ranking encompassing more than 1,500 institutions worldwide.
August 27, 2020
McMaster University medical student Max Gelkopf has received a Canadian Medical Hall of Fame Award.
July 27, 2020
Physiotherapy students are busy doing hands-on learning this month in a boot camp to get their clinical training up to date. The master students are coming on campus to the Institute of Applied Health Sciences to the School of Rehabilitation Science for the learning.
February 24, 2021
A large study of people living on five continents, led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Toronto, has found a diet high in poor quality carbohydrates leads to a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes, and death.
February 16, 2021 by Michelle Donovan
A team of virologists, infectious disease experts and immunologists at McMaster is developing two new second-generation COVID-19 vaccine candidates, designing and producing them in a specialized facility on campus.
February 16, 2021
A McMaster stem cell research team has made an important early step in developing a new class of therapeutics for patients with a deadly blood cancer.
February 9, 2021
McMaster University researchers are leading a large international study to test drugs to treat COVID-19 patients. The trial will evaluate the effectiveness of ivermectin, metformin and fluvoxamine on preventing COVID-19 disease progression, and the researchers say the results could be known in as short a time as two to three months.
February 8, 2021 by Tina Depko
A partnership between McMaster University and the Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) is helping improve eye care for Indigenous children in northern Ontario.
February 1, 2021
More than 432,000 Canadians over the age of 65 are living with dementia, but there is no current estimate of undiagnosed dementia in Canada. A new investment in a flagship research initiative led by McMaster University will change that by addressing the knowledge gap around undiagnosed dementia and improving understanding of known and emerging risk factors related to the disease.
January 29, 2021
Social movements, fuelled by social media, can be an important public health tool to support vulnerable community members, particularly during a pandemic, according to new research from McMaster University.
January 22, 2021
McMaster University researchers have established in lab settings that a novel combination of two forms of immunotherapy can be highly effective for treating lung cancer, which causes more deaths than any other form of cancer.
January 19, 2021
New research from McMaster University has found that psychiatric help for mothers with postpartum depression results in healthy changes in the brains of their babies.
December 17, 2020
McMaster University alumnus Walter Schroeder and his family have given $10 million to the university to fast-track treatment and prevention research for the search to cure allergies.
December 2, 2020
McMaster University has been ranked 11th in the world for clinical, pre-clinical and health subjects by the Times Higher Education World University rankings for 2021.
November 25, 2020
The Indigenous Teaching Through Art program was created by McMaster University’s Department of Family Medicine in collaboration with local Indigenous colleagues to fill a knowledge gap about the history of Indigenous people in Canada.
November 24, 2020
The Faculty of Health Sciences is fully committed to McMaster University’s approach to ensure that the scholarship and scholarly work of the university support a commitment to inclusive excellence and create new opportunities to significantly increase the number of Black faculty members participating across all areas of the university.
October 26, 2020
Hamilton businessman David Braley, whose investment in McMaster University’s Faculty of Health Sciences enabled tremendous growth in research, training and infrastructure, died Oct. 26 in Burlington. He was 79.
October 23, 2020
The McMaster University community is remembering Michael Gent, professor emeritus in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) and renowned biostatistician, who passed away on October 20, 2020. He was 86.
October 13, 2020
The psychiatrist who pioneered family therapy and was the first chair of the Department of Psychiatry of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine died Oct. 7. Nathan Epstein was 96.
September 25, 2020
New strategic goals and priorities for the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) have been launched with approval of its Faculty Executive Council.
September 15, 2020
It has been a year since the release of the McMaster Textbook of Internal Medicine, and already, it’s been accessed by tens of thousands of people around the world.
June 8, 2020
In order to facilitate the ability for researchers, staff and students to move easily between the Michael G. DeGroote Centre for Learning and Discovery (MDCL) and the Health Sciences Centre (HSC), changes in screening and masking protocols for MDCL are being introduced. The changes to enter both buildings begin Monday, June 8 for all McMaster faculty, staff and students.
February 16, 2021 by Lori Dillon
Indigenous scholar and education advocate, Tracy Bear, has been appointed director of the McMaster Indigenous Research Institute (MIRI).
February 12, 2021
Paul O’Byrne has been reappointed to a second five-year term as vice-president and dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences.
January 28, 2021
Mohit Bhandari, a McMaster professor who has pioneered evidence-based research in surgery, is taking the chair of the Department of Surgery at McMaster University on Feb. 1. Pending final approvals by the university, he will also hold the John A. Bauer Chair in Surgery.
January 27, 2021
Jon Barrett, well known for his work with preterm and multiple births as well as the care of their families, begins as professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McMaster University, effective March 1, 2021.
December 17, 2020
Rob Whyte, who has led the undergraduate medical program of the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine for the past decade, has been appointed the vice-dean, education for the Faculty of Health Sciences.
December 16, 2020
Bernice Downey, who has led the Faculty of Health Sciences’ Indigenous Health Initiative since 2017, has been appointed as the Faculty’s first associate dean, Indigenous Health.
September 21, 2020
The appointment of Alfonso Iorio as chair of the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact (HEI) has been announced by Paul O’Byrne, dean and vice-president of the Faculty of Health Sciences.
August 4, 2020
Sharon Kaasalainen, a professor in the School of Nursing, has been named the inaugural Gladys Sharpe Chair in Nursing at McMaster University.
July 13, 2020
Tracy Mestdagh has been named the director of information technology (IT) for the Faculty of Health Sciences. He has served as interim director since fall 2019, playing a critical role in leading change management and staff support during the Faculty-wide IT needs assessment.
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