Study Update: TMIST | Breast Cancer Awareness Month
TOMOSYNTHESIS MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGING SCREENING TRIAL (TMIST – EA1151) Comparison of Tomosynthesis to Digital Mammography in Breast Cancer Screening Approximately 1 in 9 women will develop
TOMOSYNTHESIS MAMMOGRAPHIC IMAGING SCREENING TRIAL (TMIST – EA1151) Comparison of Tomosynthesis to Digital Mammography in Breast Cancer Screening Approximately 1 in 9 women will develop
“Stillbirth is a traumatic grief.” Amanda Martin, Project Coordinator for the Hummingbird Project and bereaved parent, shares that this sentiment took years to internalize: women
Earlier this year Kate Wahl co-authored a piece for The Huffington Post about painful periods and endometriosis.
For Gender Equality Week, Kate has written an introduction to the article, emphasizing the importance of destigmatizing menstruation as a step toward greater equality for all Canadians.
This World Contraception Day we’re putting the spotlight on Dr. Dineley, whose research focuses on improving contraceptive counselling practices for patients with complex medical needs.
By Dorothy Shaw, OC, MBChB, FRCSC
This August, Dr. Deborah Money was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Infectious Diseases Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (IDSOG). This award highlights a career spent changing the landscape of women’s reproductive health research both in Canada and the United States, and her determination to better the lives of women not just here in North America, but around the globe.
The Women’s Health Research Institute would like to acknowledge that we are uninvited guests on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lo, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-waututh) Nations.
As a provincial research institute committed to improving the health outcomes of women, including those across the 2SLGBTQIA+ spectrum, we recognize our responsibility in the collective effort towards establishing culturally safe health care systems and services that address health inequities among Indigenous peoples, especially Indigenous women, girls, and Two-spirit peoples.
We encourage all people involved in research to read both the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action and the In Plain Sight Report, and reflect on ways we can incorporate the recommendations into our work. As we gather in spaces together, we encourage you to reflect on your positionality on these lands and your personal commitments to reconciliation.