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At Hôpital Montfort, the first workers to fall ill of COVID-19 weren’t doctors or nurses. They were members of the cleaning staff. “That’s what made me sit up and take notice,” says Dr. Marie-Hélène Chomienne, an assistant professor of family medicine at the University of Ottawa, who is leading multi-disciplinary team studying the psychological well-b...

The Global Pandemic App Watch, an AI + Society Initiative at the University of Ottawa, will track the uptake of COVID-19 contact-tracing and exposure-notification apps around the world  Contact-tracing and exposure-notification apps are a new technology rapidly developed and launched to respond to the COVID-19 ...

uOttawa announces new telemedicine service for students thanks to partnership with The Royal The University is proud to announce a new partnership with The Royal that will allow students access to an additional service: A Psychiatric Virtual Consultation Clinic. Telemedicine delivers real-time patient care via videoconferencing in a se...

For those living with serious mental illness, ensuring primary care providers do not overlook their chronic health problems is essential because hospitalization and, even, death from chronic health issues is a real risk. In fact, people with serious mental illness live lives that are 30% shorter than the rest of the population. A uOtta...

A message from the President and Vice-Chancellor:   Kwey –  On behalf of the University of Ottawa, and in solidarity with our Indigenous students, faculty, staff and alumni, I wish to acknowledge that today, October 4, is the annual National Day of Action for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two-Sp...

A new study led by University of Ottawa epidemiologist Dr. Ian Colman suggests non-suicidal self-injury—behaviours like cutting oneself without the intent to die—may be contagious among teenagers, who are more likely to harm themselves when they know someone who has. The study, titled ‘Adolescents’ knowledge of a peer's non‐suicidal se...

A group of researchers at the University of Ottawa has been looking for ways to improve enzyme design methodologies and recently published their findings in Nature Communications. Enzymes are used in many industrial and biotechnological applications. With their numerous beneficial properties, they are the most efficient catalysts known...

Dr. Elizabeth Muggah, a family physician in the Faculty of Medicine Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa, has been appointed president of the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP) on a five-year executive term. Dr. Muggah, who will represent the province’s 15,000-plus family physicians, is stepping into the ro...

uOttawa study finds regulation of body temperature in older adults is not impacted by increases in osmolality – or saltiness – of the blood Exercise, especially when performed in a hot environment, exposes the body to heat stress, which causes an increase in body temperature. This causes our bodies to sweat and lose fluid, meaning that...