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A Quebec first: Research chair in women’s heart health

Heart & Stroke and Ï㽶ÊÓƵ to create Early-Career Professorship in Women’s Heart Health

Montréal, June 18, 2019 – The first research chair in Quebec focused on women’s cardiac health, propelled by Heart & Stroke and Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, will officially be launched on July 1 via a research project led by Dr. Natalie Dayan, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ’s Faculty of Medicine and Director of Obstetrical Medicine in the division of General Internal Medicine at the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Health Centre (MUHC).

Classified as: Cardiology, cardiovascular, Research Institute of the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Health Centre (RI-MUHC), Women's Health, Internal Medicine
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Published on: 18 Jun 2019

Talking women’s health with Dr. Gabrielle Cassir

A native Montrealer, Dr. Gabrielle Cassir completed her medical school and residency training at Université de Montreal. During her time as a medical student, she was also able to experience the American health care system, spending two months at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. She completed two-years of subspecialty training in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, before returning to Montreal where she recently became a staff physician in the Obstetrics and Gynecology division at St.

Classified as: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women's Health
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Published on: 1 Mar 2019

A key to unlocking the mystery of triple negative breast cancer

A study conducted at the Research Institute of the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Health Centre (RI-MUHC) suggests screening breast cancer patients for the prolactin receptor could improve the prognosis for patients and may help them avoid unnecessary and invasive treatments. Using a database of 580 women with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), the researchers found that survival was prolonged in patients who expressed the prolactin receptor and that prolactin hormone was able to reduce the aggressive behavior of cancerous cells. It does so by decreasing their ability to divide and form new tumors.

Classified as: RI-MUHC, breast cancer, Women's Health, Cancer Research Program
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Published on: 25 Oct 2016
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