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The weekly phone calls with her grandmother were no longer enough. After six years in Florida, Nina Kucheran felt that French was sorely missing from her life. So, at the age of 24, she chose the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine as a springboard for a new adventure following her successful career as a university swimmer.

A positive patient-doctor relationship is an ingredient to a healthy life, and new research has zeroed in on the impact common language in the relationship can have by decreasing cardiovascular disease for the benefit of a longer life.

Researchers at the CHEO Research Institute and University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine are developing a first-of-its-kind immunization to protect against neuroblastoma, the most commonly diagnosed cancer for children under the age of one.

Dr. Deborah Siegal is this year’s national winner of a “young investigator award” from the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation (CSCI), an organization that represents early career healthcare researchers across the country.

The Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation (OVPRI) is proud to announce a significant new chapter in its partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) Ottawa, formalizing over three decades of collaboration with a new strategic agreement.

The proportion of new cases of schizophrenia associated with a cannabis use disorder has risen from 4% pre-legalization to 10% after cannabis legalization in Ontario, according to new research.

A community of support deeply attuned to the experiences of Black medical students, the uOttawa Black Medical Students Association is an empowering space for mentorship, peer support, and dismantling barriers.

For Paul Hébert, research on health is not limited to scientific publications: it’s a change driver that can improve care, rethink health-care systems and influence public policy. This proud alumnus of the University of Ottawa has witnessed the power to change things up close as a palliative care practitioner, a full professor at the Faculty of Medicine, and a researcher and clinician at the Bruyè...

A uOttawa Faculty of Medicine neuroscientist has led a Canadian research team to reveal important new insights into the activation dynamics of neural stem cells (NSCs). These are the stem cells that build our central nervous systems and the self-renewing source of primary cells in the adult human brain.

Patrick Leclair, medical director of the Student Health and Wellness Centre and a family physician, explains how the new Shoppers Drug Mart Pharmacy Care Clinic on campus aims to improve student access to wellness services as an integral part of the Centre’s new “One Door” service delivery model. The new Pharmacy Care Clinic will open February 13, and will be integrated into the University’s St...