November 8, 2024

Dr. Giulia Muraca was a guest on The Hole Shebang podcast – a podcast about all things pelvic health. Check out the episode titled Understanding Severe Maternal Morbidity where Dr. Muraca discusses her journey into perinatal epidemiology, and important topics such as the rising rates of cesarean deliveries and the implications of severe maternal morbidity among other topics. She also touches on the need for informed discussions between healthcare providers and expectant mothers and emphasizes the significance of addressing postpartum mental health and the role of pelvic floor health in maternal care.

October 24, 2024

Dr. Alison Shea shares important information about menopause including the average age for menopause in Canada, the symptoms, the psychological and emotional well-being during menopause, and when to seek help.

October 22, 2024

Dr. Esther Chin is featured in an article that discusses the work she has been doing including the development of STITCH which is a reusable simulator that allows clinicians to practise treating postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). STITCH is designed to be portable, reusable and affordable, she says, to improve access for end users around the world. Postpartum hemorrhage is a complication that kills tens of thousands of women each year.

October 15, 2024

Dr. Costescu discusses outpatient early pregnancy assessment clinics (EPAC) and how clinicians should take steps to acquaint themselves with the resources available to them locally, building relationships as needed, to help reduce delays in care for patients experiencing early pregnancy loss.

October 3, 2024

One of our Doctoral students, Abi Kirubarajan discusses the key points of her research in the Healio article. She talks about the findings published in Fertility Sterility and how women with primary ovarian insufficiency had a higher multimorbidity risk versus women without.

September 27, 2024

Dr. Julie Nguyen was recently featured in Hamilton Health Sciences Research Awareness month. She discusses the FARGO study she’s co-leading and how it aims to find better, more practical ways to assess frailty in patients with cancer as they go through treatment and recovery.

September 24, 2024

Dr. Karen Lawford spoke with CBC News – addressing the maternity care and the role of a midwife and how one First Nation hopes to bring birthing back to the community and improve outcomes.

September 23, 2024

Dr. D’Souza and team recently were awarded $5 million over five years from Heart & Stroke, along with partners at Brain Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research – Institute of Gender and Health.

The project titled The Canadian Network of Networks to Reduce Cardiovascular Mortality and Morbidity in Pregnancy (CaNCaM-Preg) is a winner of the Research Networks of Excellence in Women’s Heart and/or Brain Health. It was announced on September 23 that the Government of Canada and partners, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada, are investing $10M to establish two new national research networks for women’s heart and brain health. One of which will be led by Dr. D’Souza (CaNCaM-Preg), where they will create a Canada-wide collaboration aimed at reducing deaths and serious illness from heart conditions during and after pregnancies.

September 19, 2024

Dr. Esther Chin was a speaker at the recent Rwanda Society of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists 10th Annual Scientific Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. The theme of this year’s event was “Empowering Health Workforce to Drive Progress in Women’s Health”. She was interviewed by the Rwandan news and spoke about the importance of equipping the health care workforce with the right tools to help improve surgical capacity and post-partum hemorrhage.

July 9, 2024

Dr. Alison Shea was a guest on a recent episode of the talk show, The Social to discuss mental health and menopause.

June 26, 2024

Dr. Liz Darling talks about the opportunities available for those that complete the Master of Science in Midwifery program

May 16, 2024

Dr. Stephanie Ferguson recently wrote an article about pelvic floor dysfunction that was published in Chatelaine – what it is, what pelvic floor organ prolapse is, who is at risk, when to seek help, and the possible solutions to help.

May 14, 2024

Dr. Barrett and Dr. Rohan D’Souza were recently interviewed for the Wall segment where they discuss health outcomes related to pregnancy and childbirth and how more needs to be done to address needless deaths and injuries connected with childbirth in Canada.

April 30, 2024

Dr. Alison Shea discusses the effects that menopause has on the brain.

April 14, 2024

Dr. Mathew Leonardi and Dr. Nicholas Leyland recently spoke with Healthy Debate about the importance of McMaster’s nationwide study on the simple, finger-prick blood test that would revolutionize the diagnosis of endometriosis.

March 6, 2024

Congratulations to Dr. Giulia Muraca and Dr. Rohan D’Souza who were a part of a multi-disciplinary team of McMaster researchers who received funding for a new study focused on addressing severe maternal morbidity in the Hamilton region and beyond. This grant is awarded from the Juravinski Research Institute (JRI) which Institute supports vital health research across Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University and St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton. The project is titled: The project, titled SERENE: Supportive, Evidence-informed, Responsive, and Equity-oriented prevention-and-care model to reduce the incidence and NEgative impacts of severe maternal morbidity.

March 4, 2024

Mathew Leonardi, advanced gynecological surgeon, sonologist and assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at McMaster University, busts five common myths about endometriosis.

February 16, 2024

Dr. Esther Chin was Recently Featured in a Canadian Global Surgery Trainees’ Alliance Blog Post. Dr. Chin discusses her amazing work in global surgery! Read more at the link below

October 18, 2023

A scientific lead from the McMaster Health Forum is among a group of international experts who contributed to a toolkit recently published by the World Health Organization (WHO) that provides guidance for care during and immediately after childbirth.

The toolkit provides detailed information and resources to close the gap between labour and postnatal care recommendations released by the WHO in 2018 and 2022, and current policies and practices. Read more at the link below.

September 5, 2023

Congratulations to Isabelle Malhalme and Rohan D’Souza for receiving $840,000 from Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) and Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) to establish a virtual hub designed to advance inclusive pregnancy research and care in Canada. Read more at the link below.

Ausgust 3, 2023

Dr. Sarah McDonald discusses new research on how the steroids commonly offered to pregnant people with increased risk of preterm birth may be unnecessary and may lead to long-term health issues for the infants.

October 3, 2022

Dr. Jon Barrett discusses new research on how most maternal deaths are preventable, but there is no national system to learn lessons or change the outcomes.