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Research by Dr. Padma Kaul provides essential medication guidance for pregnant women

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Research by Dr. Jason Dyck reveals a weight-loss drug can also shrink heart muscle in mice and human cells

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Research by DoM's Dr. Padma Kaul provides new website for pregnant women with much-needed info on medications

November 19, 2024

Dr. Padma Kaul (Professor, Division of Cardiology) contributes to a new website that aims to help women and their clinicians understand which meds are safe to take during pregnancy.
Research by Dr. Jason Dyck reveals a weight-loss drug can also shrink heart muscle in mice and human cells

November 18, 2024

Dr. Jason Dyck (Adjunct Professor, Division of Cardioloy) and Dr. Carla Prado (ALES) urge caution about the unknown unintended negative health consequences of trendy anti-obesity medications.
2024 Meritorious Service Award

October 28, 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Sebastian Straube (Professor and Division Director, Division of Preventive Medicine) on receiving this prestigious award from the Occupational and Environmental Medical Association of Canada.
A U of A project with DoM's Dr. Ross Mitchell to pilot the AI note-taking tool in three Alberta emergency departments

October 23, 2024

U of A researchers, including Dr. Ross Mitchell (Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine), are testing a new AI scribe tool for medical note-taking, with the aim of easing the administrative burden on doctors and improving patient care.
Uncovering the Ancient Origins of Key Immune Machinery

October 22, 2024

A new study by the lab of DoM's Dr. Joel Dacks (Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases), in collaboration with researchers from Gothenburg and Cambridge, reveals BLOC components in eukaryotic cells across the tree of life and shows its ancient ancestry.
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