Several studies have recognized a link between obesity and cancer. Richard Lehner, professor of Pediatrics and investigator at the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, has taken his research further to understand how tumour cells ...
Apr 5, 2016
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Although women are gradually joining the leadership ranks of U.S. academic medical centers, a gap remains. Just 16 percent of deans and 15 percent of department chairs are women, according to a 2014 report by Association ...
Mar 28, 2016
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Researchers at the Medical Faculty of the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) and the Heinrich Pette Institute (HPI), Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology succeeded in developing a designer recombinase (Brec1) that ...
Feb 22, 2016
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Professor Marshall Lightowlers, from the Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, is the principal investigator for a US$200,000 (A$272,000) grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for his work on a Taenia ...
Dec 18, 2015
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A rink occupied by female hockey players isn't the rare sight it was 15 or 20 years ago. Yet while opportunities for girls in sport continue to grow, participation remains lower than for boys.
Dec 10, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Occupational burnout appears to reduce clinical faculty members' readiness to change teaching approaches, according to a study published online Nov. 13 in the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.
Nov 18, 2015
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Women physicians are substantially less likely to be full professors than men of similar age, experience, specialty and research productivity.
Sep 15, 2015
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A Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry study at the University of Alberta is giving new insight into the youth visiting Alberta's emergency rooms for self-harming behaviour. The study, published in the March edition of the Canadian ...
May 19, 2015
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Researchers from the faculty of Computer Science & Mathematics, Universiti Teknologi MARA, have proposed prototype takes advantage of the principle on how the human mind works to innovate learning strategies for those with ...
May 13, 2015
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(HealthDay)—The process of selecting and preparing for a fellowship training program, specifically pulmonary and/or critical care medicine, should begin early in residency, according to an article published online March ...
Mar 16, 2015
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