March 19, 2019
Big Data in Clinical Research: Standing Room only for Janice Pogue Lecture
The 3rd annual Janice Pogue Lectureship drew large crowds to PHRI on March 18, 2019, who came to hear Prof. Lisa...
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March 8, 2019
PHRI Research Retreat 2019
Frailty, renal disease, brain health and nutrition were key topics of discussion at the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) Retreat...
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February 28, 2019
Lowering Blood Pressure, Cholesterol May Not Improve Cognition
Results from a PHRI study show that drugs lowering blood pressure and cholesterol may not slow the decline in thinking...
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February 26, 2019
JAMA: Hospital to Home Care for Heart Failure Patients
Dr. Harriette Van Spall, PHRI investigator The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has published “Effect of Patient-Centered Transitional...
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February 25, 2019
Diet and CVD: PURE messages
Andrew Mente discusses Diet and Cardiovascular Disease: Messages From the PURE study, analyzing data from low- and middle-income countries, as...
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February 20, 2019
Kidney Disease Trial Gets Major Funding
The ACHIEVE study, an international collaboration between PHRI and The George Institute for Global Health in Australia, has been awarded...
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February 8, 2019
ANNEXA-4 Findings Released at ISC and in NEJM
Findings from PHRI’s ANNEXA-4 trial were released on Feb. 7, 2019 at the International Stroke Conference in Hawaii, while simultaneously...
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February 4, 2019
Chanchlani Global Health Research Award Lecture
A special PHRI lecture was presented on Feb. 5, 2019 at Population Health Research Institute by the 2019 recipient of...
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January 22, 2019
Remote Monitoring Technology
“Health technology is only as good as the system that supports it,” noted PHRI Senior Scientist Jeff Healey at today’s...
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January 14, 2019
AHA Stroke Investigator Award to Dr. Shoamanesh
Ashkan Shoamanesh, Scientist at PHRI, has been selected to receive the prestigious American Heart/Stroke Association Robert G. Siekert New Investigator...
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January 6, 2019
PHRI in AHA’s top research advances of 2018
Research by scientists at Population Health Research and McMaster University has made the list of American Heart Association’s top heart...
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January 2, 2019
Your postal code may affect your health
Where you live in Canada may play a role in your risk of major diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes and...
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December 6, 2018
Sleep & health study garners international media attention
What do leading American business magazines, Forbes and Inc., the UK newspaper, The Independent, and millennial website, Mental Floss, have in...
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Population Health Lecture 2019: Genetic Basis of Human Health
8th International Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) Lecture in Population Health Sciences Professor Mark Lathrop, PhD, Scientific Director – McGill...
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November 29, 2018
PHRI in top 1% cited research
Five researchers at PHRI have been included in Highly Cited Researchers 2018 – more than a third of the 17 McMaster...
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