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Micro-ultrasound is easier, more affordable and just as reliable as MRI in diagnosing prostate cancer

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 02 April 2025
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Playing doctor: Free summer camp encourages northern ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ high schoolers to consider medicine

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 26 March 2025
Teenage girl has a conversation with a female doctor. (Photo: Getty Images)

Conversation cards give teens a hand to take charge of their health

  • Adrianna MacPherson
  • 25 March 2025
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New chapter in pharmacy reference book seeks to diversify dermatology

  • Adrianna MacPherson
  • 20 March 2025
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Lessons in compassion: SHINE dental clinic has given students a chance to give back for past 20 years

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 19 March 2025
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The ‘smartwear revolution’ begins: clothing with built-in sensors will improve balance, reduce injuries and support people with muscle weakness

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 19 March 2025
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Gene therapy shows promise for treating rare muscle disease

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 11 March 2025
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New imaging test could improve how we diagnose and treat lung cancer

  • Adrianna MacPherson
  • 06 March 2025
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Black History Month Student Spotlight: Meet Princess Eze

  • 27 February 2025
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Black History Month Student Spotlight: Meet Halimat Ibrahim

  • 25 February 2025
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Supporting Black excellence in Medicine & Dentistry

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 19 February 2025
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Rheumatology enters the chat: research projects use AI and collaborative thinking to improve patient care

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 12 February 2025
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Research shows path to easier diagnosis of mitochondrial disorders

  • Don Bell
  • 11 February 2025
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Getting to the heart of the matter

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 11 February 2025
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Meet Olga Loggale: Dentistry student and advocate for change

  • 04 February 2025
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Saving lives through heart health research

  • 03 February 2025
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Vaping in pregnancy is harmful for babies and mothers: study

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 27 January 2025
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Darcy Tailfeathers’ enduring medical legacy

  • 24 January 2025
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Alumni spotlight: Sarah Treit, PhD

  • 23 January 2025
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U of A ranked in the Top 100 worldwide in five subjects

  • Adrianna MacPherson
  • 22 January 2025
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Gluten-free food affordability a struggle for nearly half of Canadian households with kids who have celiac disease

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 14 January 2025
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Machine learning helps predict ADHD in kindergarten students

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 09 January 2025
Young boy does strength training with a resistance band. (Photo: Getty Images)

Breakthrough research helps young liver transplant patients preserve muscle

  • Adrianna MacPherson
  • 07 January 2025
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Congratulations to FoMD’s 2024 Alumni Award recipients

  • 11 December 2024
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Students who lead: Student voices unite to strengthen health system

  • 10 December 2024
Researcher handles psilocybin in laboratory setting. (Photo: Getty Images)

The promise of the psychedelic revolution

  • Geoff McMaster
  • 10 December 2024
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How a U of A spinoff company beat the odds to create a new kind of cancer treatment

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 09 December 2024
A U of A team rose to the top among 400 competitors from around the world to win gold at this year’s iGEM competition in Paris, with a project to turn mixed fabric waste into spider silk using genetically engineered E.coli bacteria. (Photo: Joy Jia)

Students spin old clothes into synthetic spider silk — and gold

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 05 December 2024
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Med school unscripted: The YegMDPod podcast

  • Shirley Wilfong-Pritchard
  • 29 November 2024
Adam Parker (Photo: Alex Pugliese)

Can you really collaborate with a robot? This PhD grad is working on it

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 22 November 2024
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New website provides pregnant women with much-needed info on medications

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 19 November 2024
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Convocation spotlight: PhD '24 grad Daniela Roth

  • 19 November 2024
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Convocation Spotlight: PhD '24 grad Fernanda Talarico

  • 19 November 2024
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Convocation Spotlight: MSc '24 grad Paige Hardy

  • 19 November 2024
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Convocation Spotlight: MSc '24 grad Constantin Mouzaaber

  • 19 November 2024
Grant Bruno and his son Anders. (Photo: Steinhauer Photography)

Community-driven collective aims to learn from and empower Indigenous caregivers through research

  • Debbie Olsen
  • 14 November 2024
Carla Prado (Photo: John Ulan)

Leading nutrition expert aims to help women tip the scales in their favour against cancer

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 14 November 2024
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Harnessing the power of carbohydrates to improve our health

  • Adrianna MacPherson
  • 07 November 2024
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Research reveals new clues to the mysteries of long COVID

  • Don Bell
  • 28 October 2024
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New drug delivery system could revolutionize genetic medicine

  • Michael Brown
  • 23 October 2024
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AI scribe could help emergency docs save time and improve patient care

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 23 October 2024
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Three Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry researchers named Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences

  • 22 October 2024
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Department of Medicine celebrates a century of excellence

  • 21 October 2024
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Lab2Market Validate program bridges gap from tech innovations to commercially viable products

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 15 October 2024
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Time to move on from FASD diagnosis?

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 24 September 2024
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Five tips for staying safe on an e-scooter

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 19 September 2024
Doctor performs an endometrial ultrasound scan on patient. (Photo: Getty Images)

Study offers hope of a new treatment for rare endometrial cancer

  • Keri Sweetman
  • 16 September 2024
Dr. Deanna Funk and her colleagues at the Central Peace Health Centre in Spirit River: from left to right - Dr. Eva Kitagawa, Dr. Danae Wolfaardt (back), Dr. Folake Olaniyan (front), Dr. Deanna Funk

Calling all future doctors in northern ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 06 September 2024
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Judgmental language in medical charts reflects poor patient care and outcomes: researcher

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 26 August 2024
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U of A to run clinical trials for patients with hepatitis C and long COVID

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 13 August 2024
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U of A patient-actors helping train health-care professionals of tomorrow

  • 13 August 2024
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Addressing systemic barriers and colonial legacies in health research

  • Shirley Wilfong-Pritchard
  • 08 August 2024
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U of A study pinpoints role of specialized cells in baby gut health

  • Jon Pullin
  • 30 July 2024
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U of A oncology researcher named to the Order of Canada

  • Shirley Wilfong-Pritchard
  • 23 July 2024
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Ethan Hagen receives Personnel Award for Indigenous Scholars

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 18 July 2024
(From left) Brodi Paul, Koshkabi (helper); Darcy Paul, Koshkabi; Amanda Radil, research associate with CHCP; Daphne Alexis, Knowledge Keeper, Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation; Arnold Alexis, Elder, Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation; Youth, Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation; Doug Klein, U of A professor of family medicine; Loretta Tuttauk, Indigenous Community Co-ordinator with CHCP (Photo: Charice Chan)

‘In order to be healthy, you have to know who you are’

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 17 July 2024
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Research addresses mental health disparities among Canada’s youth

  • Keri Sweetman
  • 09 July 2024
Two new studies from a U of A lab could help reduce deaths from prostate cancer through more accurate testing for all patients and earlier screening for Black men in ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ. (Photo: Getty Images)

Clinical trial could lead to new ‘gold standard’ test for prostate cancer detection

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 02 July 2024
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New U of A study shows heart-brain connection in KBG syndrome

  • Jon Pullin
  • 02 July 2024
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A revelation in protein folding offers hope for potential ALS medicines

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 20 June 2024
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Convocation Spotlight: MD '24 grad Daniel Ghods-Esfahani

  • 14 June 2024
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Convocation Spotlight: MD '24 grad Ruth Legese

  • 14 June 2024
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National hotline a proven harm-reduction strategy in the drug-poisoning epidemic

  • Shirley Wilfong-Pritchard
  • 07 June 2024
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Convocation Spotlight: MD '24 grad John Bereti-Moody

  • 06 June 2024
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Pregnancy complications can lead to mothers’ lifelong risk of cardiovascular disease

  • Keri Sweetman
  • 06 June 2024
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Convocation Spotlight: Medical Lab Sciences '24 grad Richen Basig

  • Sasha Roeder Mah
  • 05 June 2024
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Convocation Spotlight: Medical Lab Sciences '24 grad Paxton Sheppard

  • 05 June 2024
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Convocation Spotlight: Radiation Therapy '24 grad Hannah Lawson

  • 05 June 2024
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Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry chosen to participate in global Social Accountability Fellowship

  • Jennifer Fitzgerald
  • 04 June 2024
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U of A project could help children in daycare breathe easier during wildfire season

  • Bev Betkowski
  • 03 June 2024
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AI project aims to diagnose stroke more accurately so patients can get faster treatment

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 29 May 2024
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Virtual technology makes in-home care possible for young heart patients

  • 28 May 2024
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Patients with neurological disease are likelier to die after COVID

  • Geoff McMaster
  • 13 May 2024
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U of A research teams awarded $100 million for pandemic preparedness

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 06 May 2024
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Smoking during pregnancy raises odds of overweight children

  • Don Bell
  • 02 May 2024
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Celebrating a century of excellence in biochemistry at the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ

  • Jennifer Fitzgerald
  • 24 April 2024
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Rapid test for HIV and syphilis approved thanks to U of A research

  • 24 April 2024
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Racism leads First Nations patients to leave emergency departments without completing care, study finds

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 22 April 2024
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Innovator Spotlight: Aminu K Bello

  • 11 April 2024
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U of A Rural Medical Education Program Training Centre to open in Grande Prairie

  • Shirley Wilfong-Pritchard
  • 10 April 2024
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Thirty years later, U of A medicine alumni lace up for a good cause

  • Danica Erickson
  • 04 April 2024
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Grande Prairie facility will train rural doctors

  • 03 April 2024
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U of A professor honoured for revolutionizing treatment of autoimmune diseases

  • 02 April 2024
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U of A medical students to showcase AI-enhanced portable ultrasound technology

  • Shirley Wilfong-Pritchard
  • 02 April 2024
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New research hub focuses U of A expertise on how climate change affects health

  • Geoff McMaster
  • 26 March 2024
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Fat in the brain could be key to new treatments for Parkinson’s disease, says researcher

  • Oumar Salifou
  • 22 March 2024
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Two Medicine & Dentistry Canada Research Chairs renewed

  • 21 March 2024
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$5 million donated to augment cardiovascular research at the U of A

  • 18 March 2024
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U of A lab receives important funding towards determining cause of ALS

  • Jon Pullin
  • 07 March 2024
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Shima Shahbaz is among first recipients of CIHR Award, advancing HIV research with $1M funding

  • 04 March 2024
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U of A research team uncovers universal code driving formation of all cell membranes

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 28 February 2024
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Passionate teachers of medicine to receive CAME awards

  • Shirley Wilfong-Pritchard
  • 27 February 2024
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Cardiac-resynchronization defibrillators still saving lives after 14 years

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 27 February 2024
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Portable ultrasound tool uses AI to detect arm fractures more quickly

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 26 February 2024
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New class of antivirals works against broad range of RNA viruses including SARS-CoV-2: study

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 22 February 2024
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Beyond treatment: online wellness program ‘a game-changer,’ say patients

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 21 February 2024
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Jeremies Ibanga receives Personnel Award for Black Scholars

  • 16 February 2024
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Ibrahim Khodabocus receives Personnel Award for Black Scholars

  • 16 February 2024
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Catching up with the Black Medical Students’ Association

  • 16 February 2024
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Researchers seek clues to how monkeypox virus may infiltrate brain cells

  • Gillian Rutherford
  • 16 February 2024

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