Approximately 3,500 survivors of sexual assault are treated in Ontario hospitals each year, according to a new study led by researchers at ICES, The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa. The researchers used a broad set of codes to help identify sexual assault cases that may have otherwise been missed w...
Approximately 3,500 survivors of sexual assault are treated in Ontario hospitals each year, according to a new study led by researchers at ICES, The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa. The researchers u...
More Ontarians are ending up in emergency departments (ED) due to alcohol use, with the largest increases happening in women, and young adults between the ages of 25 and 29, according to a new study led by researchers at ICES, The Ottawa Hospital, the Bruyère Research Institute and the University of Ottawa.
The study, published in the ...
More Ontarians are ending up in emergency departments (ED) due to alcohol use, with the largest increases happening in women, and young adults between the ages of 25 and 29, according to a new study led by researchers at ICES, The Ottawa ...
Even if all pregnant women are advised to receive a flu shot, many do not. In Canada, only 20% of them get vaccinated during flu season. Those who are not immunised often give the same answer why: safety concerns.
Well, expecting parents can rest easy. Canadian and American researchers evaluated the relation between 2009 pandemic H1N1 ...
Even if all pregnant women are advised to receive a flu shot, many do not. In Canada, only 20% of them get vaccinated during flu season. Those who are not immunised often give the same answer why: safety concerns.
Well, expecting parents...
The links between health and diet are well-known, but it would appear that they are even stronger than previously thought. The effect of certain foods on physical and mental health could even last for several years.
This is what Dr. Nafissa Ismail and PhD student Emma Murray, of the University of Ottawa, discovered. They developed an a...
The links between health and diet are well-known, but it would appear that they are even stronger than previously thought. The effect of certain foods on physical and mental health could even last for several years.
This is what Dr. Nafi...
What is the best way to starve cancer cells? What role does obesity play in metastatic breast cancer and how does it affect the tumour microenvironment? Might combining a chemotherapeutic agent with a drug now used to treat diabetes be part of an effective therapy for metastatic breast cancer?
With $6-million in new funding for six yea...
What is the best way to starve cancer cells? What role does obesity play in metastatic breast cancer and how does it affect the tumour microenvironment? Might combining a chemotherapeutic agent with a drug now used to treat diabetes be pa...
OTTAWA, Thursday, June 20, 2019 – University of Ottawa President and Vice-Chancellor Jacques Frémont today announced a wide-ranging approach to address racism and discrimination on campus.
This approach includes a number of actions announced earlier, including the appointment of an independent investigator, Esi Codjoe, to look into a June 12 incident ...
OTTAWA, Thursday, June 20, 2019 – University of Ottawa President and Vice-Chancellor Jacques Frémont today announced a wide-ranging approach to address racism and discrimination on campus.
This approach includes a number of actions announced earlier, in...
Canadians know very little about the history and the heroes of the LGBTQ community even though the gay liberation was a militant, radical, and unapologetically brave movement; one that is at risk of being overlooked.
Led by Constance Crompton from the University of Ottawa`s Humanities Data Lab and Michelle Schwartz from Ryerson Univers...
Canadians know very little about the history and the heroes of the LGBTQ community even though the gay liberation was a militant, radical, and unapologetically brave movement; one that is at risk of being overlooked.
Led by Constance Cro...
OTTAWA, Thursday, June 20, 2019 - The following is the statement issued by University of Ottawa President and Vice-Chancellor Jacques Frémont to announce a wide-ranging approach to address racism and discrimination on campus.
The University of Ottawa is a diverse community of approximately 50,000 people. It is in a very real sense a microcosm of Canad...
OTTAWA, Thursday, June 20, 2019 - The following is the statement issued by University of Ottawa President and Vice-Chancellor Jacques Frémont to announce a wide-ranging approach to address racism and discrimination on campus.
The University of Ottawa is...
OTTAWA, Tuesday, June 18, 2019 -- The University of Ottawa has hired an external, independent investigator to examine an incident last week involving a student and a protection services officer. Allegations of racism, racial profiling and harassment arose as a result of the incident.
Under the terms of the mandate, the investigator will look into the ...
OTTAWA, Tuesday, June 18, 2019 -- The University of Ottawa has hired an external, independent investigator to examine an incident last week involving a student and a protection services officer. Allegations of racism, racial profiling and harassment aros...
OTTAWA, June 14, 2019 - The following statement has been issued by Jacques Frémont, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Ottawa following an incident involving campus Protection Services and a student.
On Wednesday I learned of an incident involving one of our students and our campus Protection Services.
There have been subsequent alleg...
OTTAWA, June 14, 2019 - The following statement has been issued by Jacques Frémont, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Ottawa following an incident involving campus Protection Services and a student.
On Wednesday I learned of an incident...
