Mapping the Healing Journey Through Art

Mapping the Healing Journey Through Art

Clinical Nurse Specialist Emily Phillips is using arts and crafts to learn about patient experiences following open-heart surgery at St. B. September 18, 2025 A researcher at St. Boniface Hospital has turned pipe cleaners, glitter, and colourful markers into...
Funding the Future

Funding the Future

From left: Researcher Dr. Thomas Netticadan, donors Frank and Jeanne Plett, and MSc student Sunita Karki, with undergraduate student Sandrius Mirochkinov, another Plett Endowed Studentship Grant recipient. June 20, 2025 University of Manitoba student researchers are...
The Beat Goes On, at Any Age

The Beat Goes On, at Any Age

Heart disease is the number one killer of women in Canada. But St. Boniface Hospital researchers are working hard to change this. Before women go through menopause, they tend to have fewer heart attacks and strokes than men. However, they experience more after...
Please, Eat Your Peas!

Please, Eat Your Peas!

Don’t like finishing your vegetables at dinner? St. Boniface Hospital researcher Dr. Michel Aliani can tell you why you should.  Aliani is Principal Investigator, Nutritional Metabolomics Research in the Division of Neurodegenerative Disorders (DND) at the Hospital’s...
Cutting-Edge Care

Cutting-Edge Care

Women are at a disadvantage when it comes to traditional cardiac research. The cardiovascular system has the most differences between men and women after the reproductive system. Yet, historically, most cardiac research has been based on men’s hearts. This leaves a...