{"id":11097,"date":"2014-12-01T18:33:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T18:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lab-dev.research.sickkids.ca\/teresa-to-lab\/?page_id=11097"},"modified":"2025-08-06T08:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:03:34","slug":"in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/oasis\/in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>OASIS: IN THE NEWS<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"21\" data-lineheight=\"21px\">Watch Dr. Teresa To on &#8220;Beyond The Wheeze&#8221; Podcast<\/h3>\n<p>August 1, 2025;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/beyondthewheeze.ca\/episode-20\">https:\/\/beyondthewheeze.ca\/episode-20<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/podcast.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16242 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/podcast-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" data-wp-editing=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/podcast-200x100.png 200w, https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/podcast-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/podcast-400x200.png 400w, https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/podcast-600x300.png 600w, https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/podcast-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/podcast-800x400.png 800w, https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/podcast-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/podcast-1200x600.png 1200w, https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/oasis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/podcast.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><h3 data-fontsize=\"21\" style=\"--fontSize: 21;line-height: 1;--minFontSize: 21\" data-lineheight=\"21px\" class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\"><span>Inhaled steroids don&#8217;t raise fracture risk in children with asthma<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><em>November 15, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Daily use of inhaled corticosteroids does not increase the risk of bone fracture in children with asthma, according to a new study by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids). Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sickkids.ca\/AboutSickKids\/Newsroom\/Past-News\/2017\/inhaled-corticosteroids-fracture-children-asthma.html\">SickKids.ca<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdalert.com\/news\/article\/inhaled-steroids-dont-raise-fracture-risk-in-children-with-asthma\">MDalert.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-shadow\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;background:radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-webkit-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-moz-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-o-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca\/e\/50396.html#to\">CIHR Celebrating Health Research<\/a><\/h3>\n<h6><strong>OASIS: A made-in-Ontario asthma monitoring system with big aspirations<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><em>July 28, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lab.research.sickkids.ca\/oasis\/\">My team<\/a>, based at The Hospital for Sick Children, pioneered a population-based asthma registry called OASIS (Ontario Asthma Surveillance Information System). Established in 2003, OASIS follows over 2 million Ontarians with physician-diagnosed asthma and reports that 1 in 4 children are affected by asthma and 1 in 3 persons will develop asthma\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca\/e\/50396.html#to\">read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:5px;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-shadow\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;background:radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-webkit-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-moz-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-o-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.on.lung.ca\/september-spike-2014-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Closing in on Week 38 \u2013 and \u201cthe Spike\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n<h6><strong>New Data\u00a0Confirms\u00a0Returning to School Causes Problems for Kids with Asthma<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><em>September 9, 2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Toronto) &#8211; New provincial health data confirm what emergency department (ED) personnel in hospitals across Ontario already know \u2013 thousands of school children will begin arriving at their doors over the next week or so with asthma flare-ups.<\/p>\n<p>According to the new figures, compiled by the Ontario Asthma Surveillance Information System (OASIS), the 38<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0week of the year continues to be the peak time for asthma attacks among young people. This phenomenon \u2013 known among health-care professionals as the \u201cSeptember Spike\u201d \u2013 sends large numbers of school children and their family members to EDs and doctors\u2019 offices in the weeks after the start of the new school year&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.on.lung.ca\/september-spike-2014-release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-shadow\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;background:radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-webkit-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-moz-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-o-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\"><h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sickkids.ca\/AboutSickKids\/Newsroom\/Past-News\/2014\/OASIS-marks-decade-success%20.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OASIS marks a decade of success in asthma surveillance<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>July 25,\u00a02014<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Asthma Surveillance Information System (OASIS) is marking its 10th anniversary. The innovative population-based surveillance system is funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and led by Dr. Teresa To, Senior Scientist in the Research Institute\u2019s program for Child Health Evaluative Sciences and Professor at the Dalla Lana Graduate School of Public Health&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sickkids.ca\/AboutSickKids\/Newsroom\/Past-News\/2014\/OASIS-marks-decade-success%20.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-shadow\" style=\"--awb-height:20px;--awb-amount:20px;background:radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-webkit-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-moz-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);background:-o-radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% -50% , #e0dede 0px, rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) 80%) repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"><h3 class=\"pub-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ices.on.ca\/Newsroom\/News-Releases\/2014\/Our-scientists-part-of-CRRN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICES, Sunnybrook &amp; SickKids scientists part of Canadian Respiratory Research Network receiving a boost from Government of Canada<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>February 24, 2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the\u00a0<strong>Institute For Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES),<\/strong>\u00a0Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) are part of the Canadian Respiratory Research Network, which is receiving a boost from Federal Health Minister Rona Ambrose today. Minister Ambrose announced the funding today as part of the launch of three pan-Canadian research networks.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Andrea Gershon, ICES scientist, and respirologist and scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and\u00a0Dr. Teresa To, senior scientist at SickKids and adjunct scientist at ICES, are both founding members of the newly launched respiratory network&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ices.on.ca\/Newsroom\/News-Releases\/2014\/Our-scientists-part-of-CRRN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11097","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.0 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>OASIS: IN THE NEWS - 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