Medicine

Healthy neighbourhoods lead to healthy nations, says visiting Fulbright scholar

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Chose U of T because it is "beacon of research"
Author: 
Valerie Iancovich
Picture: 
Ryan Lange

To an urban planner, Toronto’s Kensington Market is a vibrant, multi-use neighbourhood. To a nutritionist, it’s a bountiful source of fresh fruits and vegetables. For a physical activity enthusiast, it proves that walking can be a primary source of transportation.  For visiting researcher and market resident Ryan Lange, his neighbourhood exemplifies how wise planning and policies – ones that resonate with the population – can promote health and, more specifically, help ward off obesity.

Posted Friday, February 10, 2012

Mats Sundin establishes medical fellowships at U of T, Karolinska Institutet

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Former Maple Leafs captain supports developmental health research
Author: 
Leslie Church and April Kemick
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Mats Sundin, Cathy Whiteside

Former Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin announced today he will establish an elite scientific exchange program in the field of developmental health between the University of Toronto and Karolinska Insitutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

Posted Friday, February 10, 2012

Four U of T researchers recognized as rising stars in global health

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Grand Challenges Canada Award $100,000 Grants to Support International Health Projects
Author: 
Liam Mitchell
Picture: 
Jan Andrysek

Losing a limb can be devastating enough, but the high cost of a prosthetic limb makes them unavailable to many in the developing world.

Posted Thursday, February 9, 2012

U of T professor wins national, international honours for promoting peace

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Italian, Calgary prizes are most recent awards
Author: 
Elaine Smith
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Dr. Abuelaish Izzeldin

Accolades continue for Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian professor at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, who is committed to seeing peace in the Middle East.

Posted Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Enjoy music while aiding Doctors Without Borders

February is depression month in Canada. Christmas is over, the bills are pouring in, our vitamin D levels are plummeting and we’re all hunkering down for two more months of winter.
 
To combat the “Canadian winter blues”, Dr. Mel Borins, a professor from U of T’s Faculty of Medicine has produced a DVD containing 10 uplifting songs and photographs he has taken around the world. The songs were written by Borins and his son, Dave, a singer-songwriter.

U of T hosts launch of global report on disability

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Report is collaboration between World Health Organization and World Bank
Author: 
Kelly Rankin
Picture: 
Tom Shakespeare

Disability is a social, political and human rights issue, says Tom Shakespeare, a contributor to the first-ever World Report on Disability.

Shakespeare, a technical officer at the World Health Organization,  was at the University of Toronto recently for the Toronto launch of this World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank report. The WHO, the health agency of the United Nations, focuses on health, rehabilitation and data. However, as Shakespeare noted, disability is far more than just a medical issue.

Posted Wednesday, February 1, 2012

U of T professors perform Ontario's first cardiac stem cell transplant

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Clinical trial for procedure underway
Author: 
Erica DiMaio
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Operating room

University of Toronto faculty members performed the first cardiac stem cell transplant in Ontario recently, using stem cells derived from the patient's own bone marrow, isolated completely within the operating room, and implanted into the heart at the time of coronary bypass surgery.

Posted Friday, January 27, 2012

Breakthrough treatment successful for patients with blocked arteries

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Success leads to larger clinical trial
Author: 
Marie Sanderson
Picture: 
stent

The world’s first clinical trial of a new treatment for patients with blocked coronary arteries has shown the novel approach to be safe and to yield promising success rates.

Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012

University of Toronto Bone and Mineral Group, Faculty of Medicine

The University of Toronto Musculoskeletal Centre, an extra-departmental unit of the Faculty of Medicine and Sunnybrook and Mount Sinai Hospitals, announced the results of its Inaugural Studentship Competition, offered in partnership with the University of Toronto Bone and Mineral Group. Congratulations to the following recipients.

Bone and Mineral Research Group Award Winner: Ms. Shabana Amanda Ali, PhD candidate, Institute of Medical Science.

Posted Thursday, January 26, 2012
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