News and Updates
The Ontario Health Study Newsletter, June 2016
Jun 16, 2016 // OHS Newsletter
In this issue: New study on metabolic syndrome to use OHS data: OHS principal investigator awarded $2 million research grant; OHS data provides closer look at mental health of ethnocultural minorities: A new study examines the link between ethnicity and mental health risk; Discovery—It’s in your Blood: Provide a blood sample to the OHS; Building a “biobank”: Find out what happens after you’ve donated a blood sample to the OHS; We’d like to hear from you: Tell us what you think
The Ontario Health Study Newsletter, November 2015
Nov 23, 2015 // OHS Newsletter
One of the first of many projects to use Ontario Health Study data now published!
The Ontario Health Study Newsletter, June 2015
Jun 4, 2015 // OHS Newsletter
The Ontario Health Study (OHS) recently launched an ambitious program to travel to communities across the province to collect blood specimens from current participants and enroll new participants. The collected blood samples are a critical part of the Study’s mission to create a resource for scientists to access to use to better understand the causes of cancer and other chronic diseases.
The Ontario Health Study Newsletter, Fall 2014
Nov 3, 2014 // OHS Newsletter
When you take part in the Ontario Health Study (OHS), you are contributing to something even bigger. The OHS is one of five regional cohorts of the Canadian Partnership for Tomorrow Project (CPTP), alongside the Alberta Tomorrow Project, the BC Generations Project, CARTaGENE in Quebec, and the Atlantic PATH project. The data collected by these studies are harmonized to create the largest health study of its kind in Canada.