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McMaster medical student receives incentive to choose family medicine as her specialty

Catherine d'Anjou, a recent graduate from the McMaster University medical school, was named the University's first recipient of the ALTANA Pharma Family Medicine Scholarship - a fund that each year gives medical students across the province a $5,000 scholarship if they pursue family medicine as their specialty. d'Anjou and her fellow recipients from the University of Toronto, The University of Western Ontario, Queen's University and the University of Ottawa were honoured last Thursday night at a reception in Toronto at the 43rd Annual Scientific Assembly of the Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP).

Nuclear energy’s latest threat: Radiophobia

Over the years, we have heard stories that radon gas in basements causes lung cancer, that fallout from bomb testing mutates babies, and that exploding reactors such as Chernobyl contaminate the world, destroy wildlife and kill hundreds of thousands of people. On the other side of the coin, Canada has the world's largest supply of uranium, and the CANDU reactor has a proven track record for energy efficiency, environmental cleanliness, and safety. A recent Ipsos Reid poll found that 74 per cent of Torontonians support the construction of new nuclear power plants to boost Ontario's energy supply and combat rising fuel prices.

McMaster researchers aim to solve global hip fracture crisis

Mohit Bhandari, an orthopaedic surgeon and Canada Research Chair in Musculoskeletal Trauma at McMaster University, is leading an International Hip Fracture Research Collaborative to develop large clinical trials to improve health outcomes in patients suffering from hip fractures, at a two-day meeting beginning today. The collaborative represents more than 200 leading hip fracture surgeons from 20 countries in North America, Europe, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Bhandari is joined by key leading McMaster researchers, Gordon Guyatt, P.J. Devereaux, and Stephen Walter, in hosting this week's meeting at the Wyndam Bristol Place Toronto Airport Hotel.