/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Women%27s%20Health/rss en /channels/channels/news/quebec-first-research-chair-womens-heart-health-297854 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p align="center"><i>Heart &amp; Stroke and ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ to create Early-Career Professorship in Women’s Heart Health</i></p> <p><b>Montréal, June 18, 2019</b> – The first research chair in Quebec focused on women’s cardiac health, propelled by Heart &amp; Stroke and ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ, will officially be launched on July 1 via a research project led by Dr. Natalie Dayan, Assistant Professor of Medicine at ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ’s Faculty of Medicine and Director of Obstetrical Medicine in the division of General Internal Medicine at the ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ Health Centre (MUHC).</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/dayan_2_cropped.jpg?itok=s8TJOqSl" width="160" height="127" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">18 </span><span class="month">June </span><span class="year">2019</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:11:51 +0000 webfull 149996 at /channels /channels/channels/news/talking-womens-health-dr-gabrielle-cassir-295106 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><i>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.</i></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/gabriellecassir.jpg?itok=JYT_NJOy" width="160" height="235" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">1 </span><span class="month">March </span><span class="year">2019</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:32:10 +0000 webfull 146940 at /channels /channels/news/key-unlocking-mystery-triple-negative-breast-cancer-263636 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A study conducted at the Research Institute of the ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ 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.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/thinkstockphotos-583830358.jpg?itok=6Z6IF2nW" width="160" height="160" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">25 </span><span class="month">October </span><span class="year">2016</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:02:38 +0000 webfull 122412 at /channels