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Ottawa Hospital researchers help launch two new clinical trials to evaluate CPR and drugs after sudden cardiac arrest January 26, 2012 - The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute is participating in two new multi-site clinical trials sponsored by the National Institutes of Health to evaluate treatments for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. One will compare continuous chest compressions ... Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and CHEO Research Institute open new research centre dedicated to improving health and patient care December 14, 2011 - Medical research often happens in small steps, but a new facility at The Ottawa Hospital is designed to enable researchers to answer the big questions that can truly ... Study finds serious reactions to MMR vaccine are rare December 12, 2011 - New research led by Dr. Kumanan Wilson shows that children are more likely to show up in emergency rooms one to two weeks after getting their first measles, mumps and rubella vaccine shot, ... C. difficile lengthens hospital stays by six days December 5, 2011 - A new study published in the CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) reports that hospital-acquired C. difficile infection increases length of stay in hospital by an average of six days. C. difficile is the most common cause of infectious ... Novel embryonic stem cell technology to accelerate genetic research December 2, 2011 - Dr. Bill Stanford collaborated with Dr. Josef Penninger and other colleagues in Austria to develop and analyze “haploid” mouse embryonic stem cells that have just a single copy of each ... See all news items | See only press releases

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