The Truth of Our Hearts

The Truth of Our Hearts

Why do Indigenous cardiac patients in Manitoba get sicker and tend not to recover as well as the rest of the population, even after receiving medical treatment? A team of contributors and researchers at St. Boniface Hospital and from the University of Manitoba have...
Connecting the Dox

Connecting the Dox

While research has led to effective agents for killing cancer cells, they come with a high price: some of these drugs, such as Doxorubicin (DOX), can also damage the heart. DOX is a common chemotherapy drug used to treat many cancers, including leukemias, lymphomas,...
“Healthy is a gut feeling”

“Healthy is a gut feeling”

MSPrebiotic® – a St. Boniface Hospital Research success story out of Carberry, Manitoba – is leading a revolution in gut health. A clinical trial conducted by Canadian Centre for Agri-Food Research in Health and Medicine (CCARM) Principal Investigator and...
The battle against bacteria

The battle against bacteria

Scientists at St. Boniface Hospital Albrechtsen Research Centre and the University of Manitoba have developed a drug that combats two of the top 10 “priority pathogens” defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as antiobiotic-resistant bacteria requiring new...
Protecting hearts

Protecting hearts

Eating blackberries and black elderberries might protect your heart and prevent high blood pressure. That’s what Drs. Jeffrey Wigle and Thomas Netticadan of St. Boniface Hospital are working to prove. “In nature, plants produce compounds called polyphenols when they...