The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the winning recipients of its Project Grant program for Fall 2021 and three University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) researchers have been awarded more than $2 million in project funding. The winning researchers from the UOHI for...
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The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has announced the winning recipients of its Project Grant program for Spring 2021 and three University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) researchers have been awarded a total of nearly $2 million in project funding. About the program: The CIHR’s...
Cannabis, e-cigarettes, and human genetics. Dr. Andrew Pipe interviews key delegates from 2020 conference. Last week in the nation’s capital, the world’s most prominent smoking cessation authorities gathered to attend the 12 th Annual Ottawa Conference: State-of-the-Art Clinical Approaches to...
According to a recent Harvard University study, each year 1.65 million people die worldwide from high-sodium diets that lead to heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular disease. The review of existing research found that most people eat far more salt than recommended, and salt is a major...
1. Heart Health Infographics An easy way to keep your heart health top of mind anytime 2. What’s Next for TAVI? Catheter-based aortic valve replacement looks to become an option for more patients if competition and demand bring down the cost of valves 3. 10 Tips for Emotional Health Our emotional...
Here are 10 tips to help anyone safely start an exercise program.
What you eat affects important factors that contribute to heart disease. Making healthy food choices doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Here are 10 tips to help you eat healthy.
The winter holiday season can be a challenging time: shorter days, busy schedules, high expectations and a touch of social pressure. To help you navigate the end of the year and make the most of these few weeks, here are some tips to help you manage the holiday season.
It’s never too late to quit smoking, and quitting is one of the best things you can do for your health. Here are 10 tips to make quitting smoking easier
As 2017 draws to a close, we hope you will enjoy this look back at our Top 5 articles from this past year: 5. Intermittent fasting helps fight obesity Up to sixteen weeks of intermittent fasting without otherwise having to count calories helps fight obesity and other metabolic disorders 5th most...
OTTAWA - National and international smoking cessation authorities will assemble in Ottawa this week to attend the 12th Annual Ottawa Conference: State-of-the-Art Clinical Approaches to Smoking Cessation, Canada’s premier event promoting the latest ideas and evidence in clinical tobacco treatment...
OTTAWA - National and international smoking cessation authorities are gathering in Ottawa today to attend the 12th Annual Ottawa Conference: State-of-the-Art Clinical Approaches to Smoking Cessation, Canada’s premier event promoting the latest ideas and evidence in clinical tobacco treatment...
OTTAWA - National and international smoking cessation authorities are gathering in Ottawa today to attend the second and final day of the 12th Annual Ottawa Conference: State-of-the-Art Clinical Approaches to Smoking Cessation, Canada’s premier event promoting the latest ideas and evidence in...
Martin Green, MD, vividly recalls the day in 1971 when he attended a medical school lecture on electrical activation of the heart, a subject that doctors and researchers were just beginning to explore. “There were 225 people in the class and 224 of them walked out saying ‘That was the worst lecture...
Interventional cardiologists at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute are championing broad-based innovation by using catheter-based procedures to treat a variety of conditions. This gallery highlights a minimally invasive procedure, called TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation), for...
New cardiac imaging technology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute will allow physicians and researchers to greatly expand their pursuit of advanced heart function studies while ensuring shorter diagnostic wait times for patients. A new hybrid machine that combines computerized tomography...
In March of this year, following a two-year fellowship in Canada, Roshan Raut, MD, returned to his native Nepal as only the third doctor trained in cardiac electrophysiology in his country’s history and the first trained in complex ablation techniques. He was eager to get to work expanding the...
In 2016, Queens University held as part of its 175 th anniversary celebrations an international summit to discuss and debate an "endgame" for tobacco usage in Canada. The Tobacco Endgame for Canada Summit concluded with a call for the creation of a tobacco endgame strategy for the country. Experts...
A study of gender differences in mitral valve surgery has generated interest in the professional community because it sheds light on an aspect of valve surgery that hasn’t been well-studied to date. “We know from the medical literature that women typically are referred for diagnostic tests and...
Ottawa – The University of Ottawa Heart Institute (UOHI) has been named one of the ten winners of the 2019 TD Ready Challenge presented by TD Bank Group. The Heart Institute will receive CDN $1 million from TD Bank Group to pursue innovative research designed to improve and expand the early...