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Old Sun Residential School.

Digital archives of Alberta residential schools may serve educational role

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Dr. Sonya Lee

Sonya Lee appointed department head, Family Medicine

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Jodhvir Nagra’s research project will involve interviewing religious leaders to see if their organizations can play a role in increasing the health and wellness literacy in their communities.

450 undergraduate students participate in summer research projects

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Hucul, Michelle

In Memoriam: Michelle Hucul

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Lara Nixon is the lead researcher on a new harm reduction project at Peter Coyle Place.

Dollars to action: $1.5M in funding scales up harm reduction services for older adults

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University of Calgary associate professor Lori Montgomery was the committee chair for the development of the new course. Associate dean Kelly Burak says the course will help family doctors who lack skills in safe opioid tapering. Photos by Riley Brandt, University of Calgary

UCalgary and partners create new course for physicians to reduce opioid use

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Known locally as Mama na Mtoto (mother and baby in Swahili), UCalgary's Cumming School of Medicine project provides on-the-ground clinical, education and research support to help mothers and babies. Here, a two-day-old baby awaits a checkup at a health facility in Misunwi District, Tanzania. Photo by Ashley Anderson

UCalgary partnership helps improve childbirth safety for moms and babies in Tanzania

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Even if they are not treated, only about three per cent of men will die of prostate cancer over their lifetime, most in their 70s or 80s.

Movember shavedown: Why you should not get your prostate checked

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