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The late student’s research is helping to enable access to home-based palliative care, a wish of most Canadians—including himself.

The Social Accountability Student Advisory Committee is working to help create a more inclusive health care system.

Dr. Tim Lau, associate professor of psychiatry at uOttawa and director of Joy-at-Work for the Department of Psychiatry, weighs in on happiness—how it can prolong your life and enhance your success.

The Exploration stream of the New Frontiers in Research Fund supports innovative, high-risk high-reward research projects.

Catherine Moran and Deron Britt laud the program’s supportive, family dynamic in preparing them for their dream careers.

Initiative hopes to bolster training for French-speaking pharmacy students across Canada

Kevin Roy (MD 2023) is a winner of the prestigious 3M National Student Fellowship Award this year; one of just 10 recipients from post-secondary institutions across Canada.

With approximately one-third of the world’s population currently infected with latent TB, Dr. Alice Zwerling takes a health economics approach to a funding gap of billions.

Using data from more than 400,000 low-risk pregnancies, Dr. Darine El-Chaâr and co-authors found a lower risk of adverse delivery outcomes compared with planned vaginal deliveries. The study is published in CMAJ.

This June 10, join the University of Ottawa in celebrating the recipients of the 2020 and 2021 Alumni Association Awards of Excellence, including five members from the Faculty of Medicine.

High school students explore career options in medicine, biomedical research and health at this second annual uOttawa event.

According to the first study of its kind published in the medical journal The BMJ, the highest rates of suicide were seen in younger patients (ages 18-34), those with pre-existing diagnoses of depression, anxiety or PTSD, and those who received invasive procedures.

The team of experts applies powerful technology to analyze metabolites in healthy and diseased tissues of the body.

With full support from their professors, six uOttawa medical students created an official new module for their MD program to address a gap in skin colour representation in Western medical teachings for dermatology.

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